Mobile Device Vector List Advertising for Self-Organized Social Networks

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional mobile communication technologies limit social behavior by optimizing user experiences from a single device perspective, lacking predictability and cooperation between user devices and network functionalities, restricting group decision methods and information sharing in mobile networks.

Innovation Solution

Implementing cloud-based distributed and fractal decision-making protocols that enable emergent user behaviors by advertising vector lists containing device and user-specific information to determine network connections, using a cloud-based data processing environment to facilitate self-organized mobile device networks and spontaneous social group formation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If cloud-based distributed decision-making protocols are implemented to enable emergent user behaviors and self-organized networks, then adaptability and social behavior capabilities are improved, but device complexity and network infrastructure requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesocial behavior capabilityVSAvoidnetwork infrastructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a cloud-based data processing environment as an intermediary that hosts vector lists and connection preference algorithms. Mobile devices advertise their vector lists to the cloud, which then facilitates connection decisions without requiring complex peer-to-peer negotiation protocols between devices. This mediator approach enables emergent social behavior while offloading computational complexity to the cloud infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where mobile devices continuously advertise their vector lists (containing user preferences, device characteristics, and social attributes) to the cloud-based environment. The cloud processes these advertisements and provides feedback through connection preference algorithms that determine optimal network connections. This feedback loop enables adaptive social behavior emergence without requiring devices to independently calculate complex connection strategies.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If vector lists with device and user-specific information are advertised to determine network connections, then connection precision and user experience are improved, but information processing requirements and network bandwidth consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnection matching accuracyVSAvoiddata transmission volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the computationally intensive vector list processing and connection decision-making functions from individual mobile devices and relocates them to a cloud-based data processing environment. Mobile devices simply advertise their vector lists to the cloud, which then performs the detailed analysis and connection determination. This extraction reduces the data processing burden on devices and optimizes network bandwidth usage by centralizing complex information processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system transitions connection decision-making from a device-to-device horizontal interaction model to a device-to-cloud-vertical interaction model. By moving the processing dimension to the cloud infrastructure, the system can handle complex vector list comparisons and connection preferences without proportionally increasing network bandwidth requirements between mobile devices. The cloud dimension provides scalable processing capacity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS9769178B2Group user experience
Publication Date: 2017.09.19 NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
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AI summary

Disclosed is a method, system and computer programs to provide emergent behavior in a network of connected mobile user devices. The method includes advertising with a mobile wireless communication device to other mobile wireless communication devices a vector list that includes at least mobile wireless communication device specific vectors and mobile wireless communication device user specific vectors. The method further includes determining, in cooperation with a cloud-based data processing environment, whether to connect to a network of other mobile wireless communication devices based at least on at least one element that comprises part of vector lists associated with the other mobile wireless communication devices, the vector lists being stored at the cloud-based data processing environment.