Roaming Data Service Provisioning Based on Usage Pattern Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for delivering data services to roaming wireless terminals do not effectively manage the higher costs associated with data usage outside a user's home network, leading to inefficient resource allocation and potential increased expenses for users.
Innovation Solution
A system that tracks usage patterns on both home and roaming networks, estimates the reduction in data service usage, and selectively enables or disables data services based on this reduction, considering the extra cost of roaming and user preferences to optimize data service provisioning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If data services are enabled to roaming wireless terminals, then user experience and service availability are improved, but data usage costs and network resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically changes the state of data services from enabled to disabled based on roaming detection. When a terminal is identified as roaming, the network selectively disables data services, transforming the service availability parameter to reduce costly data usage while maintaining voice and text capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic service provisioning that adapts to the terminal's location status. The system continuously monitors whether terminals are roaming and adjusts service enablement in real-time, allowing services to be enabled when home and visited networks match, and disabled when they differ, optimizing the balance between user experience and cost control.
2Loss of energy
If data services are disabled to roaming wireless terminals, then data usage costs are reduced, but user experience and service continuity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different service quality levels based on the specific roaming scenario. When home and visited networks match, full data services are maintained. When they differ, data services are selectively disabled. This localized quality adjustment ensures cost reduction only applies where necessary, preserving user experience when possible.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the network continuously monitors terminal location and network matching status. Based on this feedback, the system dynamically adjusts service provisioning, providing immediate response to roaming conditions and ensuring optimal balance between cost control and user experience.
3Loss of energy
If data services are selectively enabled based on network matching, then cost efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic network matching and service enablement decisions without requiring complex user input or manual configuration. The network autonomously detects roaming status, compares home and visited networks, and makes service provisioning decisions, simplifying the user interface while maintaining sophisticated cost control logic.
Data Source
AI summary
A system includes a network interface and one or more processors. The processors are configured to track a first pattern with which a user terminal consumes one or more data services while served by a home network specified for the user terminal, to track a second pattern with which the user terminal consumes the one or more data services while served by one or more networks other than the home network, to estimate a reduction in usage of the one or more data services between the first and second patterns, and to selectively enable at least one data service to the user terminal by the networks other than the home network, based on the estimated reduction in usage.