Network Component Analytics for Subscriber Usage Attribution

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current telecommunications network systems cannot accurately attribute the usage of network resources to individual subscribers, making it difficult to determine the specific resources consumed by each subscriber, which is essential for billing and network optimization.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a system where network components record transmission measurement data, including identifiers for users and network components, and a data record server processes this data to allocate resource usage to specific time slots, enabling accurate attribution of network resource usage to individual subscribers.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If separate billing systems track subscriber usage, then individual data consumption can be determined, but network resource attribution to specific subscribers remains impossible

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesubscriber usage measurementVSAvoidnetwork resource attribution information

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments network resource usage data by creating separate data structures for network component identifiers and subscriber identifiers. The usage information is divided into discrete records that can be independently tracked and correlated, allowing precise attribution of specific network resources to specific subscribers through structured data organization and matching algorithms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If network components record performance indicators, then overall network performance can be analyzed, but individual subscriber resource consumption cannot be determined

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenetwork performance analysisVSAvoidindividual resource usage measurement

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges two previously separate data streams: network component performance data and subscriber usage data. By combining these datasets with correlated identifiers (network component IDs and subscriber IDs), the system achieves both macro-level network performance analysis and micro-level individual subscriber resource measurement simultaneously through integrated data processing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Quantity of substance

If usage data is collected for billing purposes, then data transmission volume is tracked, but network component resource allocation to subscribers remains unknown

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata usage volumeVSAvoidnetwork resource allocation information

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces usage information records as an intermediary data structure that bridges billing data and network resource allocation data. These records contain both subscriber identifiers and network component identifiers, serving as a mediator that connects previously disconnected data systems and enables precise attribution of network resource consumption to specific subscribers for both billing and optimization purposes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS9119204B2User based network component analytics

Publication Date: 2015.08.25 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC

AI summary

A data record server is configured to receive transmission measurement data from one or more network components containing information about one or more packet data communications and create a data record for each of packet data communications. Data records corresponding to a particular network component are identified, associated with one or more time slots in a data measurement compilation, and used to analyze the resource usage of a network component by one or more of the subscribers or mobile devices.