Relay Device Connection Reason Determination

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Solution Overview

Problem

In communication scenarios where a remote device communicates with a base station through a relay device, the relay device cannot accurately determine the reason for the remote device's connection establishment or resumption requests, leading to incorrect decisions by the base station, which may result in failed connections.

Innovation Solution

The relay device determines the reason for connection establishment or resumption based on connection-related information received from the remote device, ensuring that the reason carried in the request to the base station accurately reflects the remote device's intended operation, thereby allowing the base station to make informed decisions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If the relay device forwards connection requests from remote devices without determining the reason, then the device complexity is reduced, but the connection reliability deteriorates due to incorrect base station decisions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverelay device complexityVSAvoidconnection reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The relay device acts as an intermediary that receives connection-related information from the remote device, determines the appropriate reason for connection establishment or resumption, and forwards this information to the base station. This mediator approach allows the relay device to bridge the gap between the remote device's connection needs and the base station's decision-making process, ensuring accurate reason transmission without significantly increasing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If the relay device accurately determines and transmits the reason for connection requests, then the connection reliability is improved, but the information processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnection reliabilityVSAvoidrelay device complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The relay device utilizes the connection-related information already provided by the remote device to determine the reason for connection establishment or resumption. Rather than requiring complex external analysis or additional information gathering, the relay device serves itself by processing the incoming information to extract the appropriate reason, thereby improving reliability without proportionally increasing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS20240040637A1Connection establishment method and apparatus
Publication Date: 2024.02.01 BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO LTD
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AI summary

A method for connection establishment is performed by a relay device, and includes: in response to receiving connection-related information from a remote device, determining a reason for performing a connection establishment or a connection resumption with a base station by the relay device according to the connection-related information, wherein the connection-related information is configured to indicate a connection request of the remote device.