Mobile Terminal Concurrent Call Termination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Employees with corporate and personal cellular phones face the inconvenience of carrying multiple devices due to the lack of mechanisms for porting or managing both corporate and personal mobile accounts on a single terminal, especially since corporate accounts are typically purchased through a single carrier and lack integration with personal accounts.
Innovation Solution
The development of mechanisms that allow a single mobile terminal to allocate multiple subscriptions and terminate multiple concurrent calls on separate or common carrier frequencies, enabling the use of a single device for both work and personal communications without requiring network configuration data for multi-line capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If employees use separate corporate and personal mobile terminals, then each account can be managed independently, but employees must carry multiple devices which reduces convenience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple mobile accounts (corporate and personal) into a single mobile terminal device. The system allows the terminal to register and manage multiple accounts simultaneously, enabling users to receive and handle calls from different accounts through one device, thereby eliminating the need to carry multiple separate phones.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile terminal is designed to perform multiple functions by supporting both corporate and personal account management. The device can independently register each account with respective networks, store multiple account credentials, and handle calls from different accounts, making a single device universal for both work and personal communications.
2Device complexity
If corporate accounts are purchased through a single carrier, then account management is simplified, but employees cannot port or use personal accounts on the corporate terminal
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the account management functionality by allowing independent registration and storage of multiple account credentials within the terminal. Each account (corporate or personal) is managed as a separate entity with its own network registration process, enabling the terminal to handle multiple carriers and account types without conflating their management requirements.
3Productivity
If the network is configured with multi-line capabilities, then multiple concurrent calls can be supported, but network configuration complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile terminal independently manages multiple account registrations and call handling without requiring network-side configuration for multi-line capabilities. The terminal itself performs the registration of multiple accounts with respective networks and manages the concurrent call termination, eliminating the need for complex network configuration while maintaining high productivity.
Data Source
AI summary
A system, method and computer-readable medium for allocating multiple subscriptions to a single mobile terminal thereby allowing concurrent termination of multiple calls at the mobile terminal are provided. A mobile terminal adapted to terminate multiple concurrent calls is described. In one implementation, a network need not have any configuration data regarding the multi-line capabilities of the mobile terminal. In other implementations, network-centric mechanisms are provided for allowing multiple concurrent calls to be terminated by a mobile terminal. Multiple concurrent calls may be terminated at a mobile terminal on separate carrier frequencies or alternatively may be terminated on a common carrier frequency.