Mobile Telephone Multi-User Code Configuration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile telephone systems lack the ability to efficiently share a single device among multiple users while maintaining individual telephone numbers and usage settings, and managing shared plans to prevent exceeding usage limits.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allows a mobile telephone to be configured with a specific telephone number using an input code, enabling multiple users to share a single device with personalized settings and usage management, including customizable restrictions to prevent plan overages, by utilizing a network with a code database, settings database, and restrictions database to manage and reconfigure phone settings and usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a single mobile telephone is shared among multiple users with individual telephone numbers, then device utilization efficiency is improved, but the complexity of managing user configurations and settings increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of user profiles and settings through the code database system. When a user enters their identification code, the system retrieves and applies the corresponding pre-stored profile configuration, effectively copying the appropriate settings without requiring manual reconfiguration for each user.
Solution Approach 2:
The code database acts as an intermediary between the physical telephone and multiple user profiles. It mediates the configuration process by storing and retrieving user-specific settings based on identification codes, simplifying the management complexity while enabling multi-user sharing.
2Ease of operation
If physical SIM cards are moved between telephones to configure users, then user configuration is achieved, but the process is time-consuming and physically cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical SIM card physical movement system with an electronic code-based configuration system. Users enter their identification codes through the telephone's interface, and the system automatically retrieves and applies the corresponding profiles from the code database, eliminating the need for physical SIM card handling and reducing configuration time.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple users share a single telephone with personalized settings, then device sharing capability is improved, but ensuring plan limit compliance and preventing overages becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring each user profile with their specific plan limits and usage restrictions in the code database. Before a user accesses the telephone, their personalized plan parameters are already stored and ready to be automatically applied, ensuring plan compliance is built into the system architecture rather than enforced reactively.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that monitor usage against predefined plan limits. When users approach or exceed their allocated resources, the system provides feedback through the code database to adjust access or notify users, ensuring reliable plan compliance while maintaining sharing capability.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are a system and method for associating a plurality of telephone numbers with a mobile telephone that includes a database of a plurality of telephone numbers linked to a plurality of codes and a mobile telephone network configured and arranged to associate the mobile telephone with a particular telephone number when the network receives the code linked to the particular telephone number.