Personal Identity Beacon for Automatic Communication Service Forwarding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Consumers face challenges in managing duplicative communication services across different geographic locations, with existing forwarding techniques being cumbersome and limited to single service types, requiring manual intervention and not automatically forwarding multiple services based on location.
Innovation Solution
A personal identity beacon integrated with GPS and a transmitter that periodically determines its location and forwards this information to a wireless macro network, allowing automatic forwarding of various communication services to registered identifiers based on the user's location, using a communication system that includes a network device to process and route communications accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual call forwarding service is used, then call forwarding functionality is provided, but user convenience deteriorates due to requiring manual placement in cradle and remembering to activate service
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects the user's location through GPS coordinates from the mobile device and autonomously forwards communications to the appropriate service without requiring user intervention. The network server compares current location with registered locations and executes forwarding decisions automatically.
Solution Approach 2:
Users pre-register multiple communication services with their corresponding geographic locations before needing forwarding. The system stores these location-service mappings in advance, enabling automatic routing when the user travels to registered locations without requiring real-time configuration.
2Adaptability or versatility
If single service type forwarding is implemented, then forwarding functionality is provided, but service versatility deteriorates due to inability to forward multiple communication service types
Solution Approach 1:
The forwarding system is designed to handle multiple communication service types including voice calls, fax, and email through a unified platform. The network server identifies the service type from incoming communications and routes them to the appropriate service at the user's current location, providing multi-functional capability through a single system.
3Measurement precision
If automatic location-based forwarding is implemented, then forwarding accuracy is improved, but information processing complexity increases due to needing to process and compare location data
Solution Approach 1:
The network server acts as an intermediary that receives GPS coordinates from the mobile device, compares them with registered location data, and determines the user's current service location. This intermediary processing layer handles the complexity of location matching and forwarding decisions, keeping the mobile device itself relatively simple.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables seamless and automatic forwarding of multiple communication services across different locations, ensuring that communications are directed to the appropriate service based on the user's current location, simplifying the management of duplicative services and enhancing convenience.
Implementation Method 1
The personal identity beacon can include a GPS receiver and a transmitter for communicating with a wireless macro network. The beacon periodically determines its current location
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a personal identity beacon, which can be attached to a keychain, integrated into jewelry, and the like. The personal identity beacon can include a GPS receiver and a transmitter for communicating with a wireless macro network. The subscriber is also provided with universal service identifiers (e.g., telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and the like). The beacon periodically determines its current location and forwards its determined location to the wireless macro network. A subscriber registers geographic locations for forwarding communication services, such as home, the office, and the like, and corresponding communication service identifiers. When the wireless macro network receives a geographic location from the beacon identifying a new location, which corresponds to one registered by the subscriber, the wireless macro network automatically forwards communications destined for the universal service identifiers to the subscriber's communication service identifiers registered for that location, e.g., phone calls to a landline phone, e-mail to a particular e-mail account, etc. Because the personal identity beacon is integrated with, or attached to, an article, which a consumer will always carry with them, the personal identity beacon simplifies the automatic forwarding of communication services.