Network Status Display System for Cellular Troubleshooting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Troubleshooting cellular network issues is a laborious process due to the need to aggregate, normalize, and collate data from multiple disparate sources, making it slow and inefficient.
Innovation Solution
A network status display system that correlates historic events for cellular devices on a common timeline, allowing users to identify problems and unusual behaviors, and provides controls for active diagnostic information retrieval and communication with the device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If data is aggregated, normalized, and collated from multiple disparate sources to understand network events, then troubleshooting accuracy is improved, but troubleshooting time and labor increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically collecting, normalizing, and collating network data from multiple sources in advance, creating a ready-to-analyze consolidated view before troubleshooting begins. This eliminates the need for manual data gathering during actual troubleshooting, thus improving accuracy without proportionally increasing time investment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary system (network status display and data correlation engine) that acts as a mediator between multiple disparate network data sources and the troubleshooting process. This intermediary automatically aggregates and normalizes data, reducing both the time and manual effort required while maintaining comprehensive analysis accuracy.
2Reliability
If multiple network data sources are monitored and traced to get a complete picture of network events, then diagnostic completeness is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal network status display system that can monitor and correlate multiple types of network data sources (GSM, GPRS, SMS, etc.) through a single interface. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate monitoring tools, reducing system complexity while maintaining comprehensive diagnostic coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges multiple disparate network data sources and their corresponding monitoring functions into a single unified network status display. By combining trace data, location data, authentication data, and other network information into one correlated view, the system reduces complexity while preserving complete diagnostic capability.
3Loss of information
If network events are traced through selected network elements and collated, then understanding of network sequence is improved, but labor requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The network status display system performs self-service by automatically tracing, collecting, normalizing, and collating network events from selected network elements without requiring manual intervention. The system autonomously correlates events across different network components and presents them in a unified chronological sequence, eliminating manual labor while preserving complete network event understanding.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements automated feedback loops that continuously monitor network elements, trace events, and update the network status display in real-time. This automated feedback mechanism maintains comprehensive network event understanding without requiring manual tracing efforts, as the system self-updates based on incoming network data.
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AI summary
A system for monitoring and diagnosing communication systems comprises: an interface, a processor, and a graphical user interface. The interface receives one or more communication data streams. The processor extracts information from the one or more communication data streams. And, the graphical user interface displays the information as a plurality of time-correlated lanes.