Proactive Telecom Service Upgrade via Preliminary Action
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in efficiently upgrading their wireless telecommunications services, such as bandwidth, when traveling to foreign jurisdictions, as the existing process often requires navigating limited bandwidth options upon arrival, which can be cumbersome.
Innovation Solution
The home telecommunications service provider anticipates the user's travel to a foreign jurisdiction by analyzing location, travel patterns, and electronic communications, offering service upgrade options before departure, allowing the user to select and activate upgraded services in the foreign jurisdiction upon arrival.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users navigate web-based menu selections to upgrade services while roaming in a foreign jurisdiction, then service upgrade functionality is provided, but user convenience deteriorates due to limited bandwidth and cumbersome navigation
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs service upgrade selections in advance while the user is still in the home jurisdiction with full bandwidth access. The home network identifies upcoming travel, presents upgrade options, and receives user selections before the user departs. This preliminary action eliminates the need for users to navigate complex menus while roaming with limited bandwidth, thereby maintaining service upgrade capability while dramatically improving user convenience.
2Adaptability or versatility
If service upgrade options are presented after user arrives in foreign jurisdiction, then service needs are met, but time is lost due to navigation delays and limited bandwidth
Solution Approach 1:
The system identifies when a user is about to travel to a foreign jurisdiction based on location data, travel patterns, or calendar information. Upgrade options are presented and user selections are captured while the user is still in the home network with adequate bandwidth. The selected upgrades are then automatically activated when the user roams in the foreign jurisdiction, eliminating time loss and ensuring service needs are met immediately upon arrival.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users select service upgrades while roaming with limited bandwidth, then service customization is achieved, but system complexity increases due to coordination challenges
Solution Approach 1:
By completing service customization selections in advance while the user is in the home jurisdiction, the system avoids the complexity of real-time coordination during roaming. The home network can process selections using full bandwidth and robust connectivity, then automatically transfer the selected service parameters to the foreign network before the user arrives. This approach maintains service customization capability while significantly reducing system coordination complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A wireless telecommunications device user's home telecommunications service provider determines that the user is traveling or about to travel to a foreign jurisdiction where telecommunications services are provided by a different telecommunications service provider, and proactively provides the user with options for selecting or upgrading telecommunications service and receives a selection from the user before the user leaves the home jurisdiction or ceases contact with the home service provider. When the user arrives in the foreign jurisdiction, upgraded service per the user's selection is established or soon ready to become active. The home service provider can determine the user's travel based on one or more of the user's electronic communications, calendar entries, current location, trending geographical movement, or patterns of past travels.