Satellite Metadata Control of Receiver Error Logging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Content receivers, such as set-top-boxes, often encounter errors that are difficult to diagnose and may require technician support, necessitating inefficient software updates to adjust error-logging levels.
Innovation Solution
Utilizing satellite signals to dynamically adjust error-logging levels in content receivers by transmitting metadata that instructs them to modify configuration files, allowing for flexible and frequent adjustments without large software updates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If software updates are performed to adjust error-logging levels in content receivers, then error diagnosis capability is improved, but update frequency and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the error-logging control functionality from the main software update process. Instead of requiring full software updates to adjust logging levels, the system separates the logging configuration into a distinct component that can be modified independently through satellite signal metadata, reducing update frequency and system complexity while maintaining error diagnosis capability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter control mechanism from fixed software configurations to dynamic satellite-signal-delivered parameters. By transmitting key-value pairs through satellite metadata that control logging levels, the system enables flexible adjustment of error-logging behavior without requiring software updates, thus improving reliability while reducing device complexity
2Productivity
If error-logging levels are adjusted frequently to diagnose errors, then error resolution speed is improved, but communication overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the error-logging control instructions from bulky software update packages and places them into compact satellite signal metadata. By taking out only the essential key-value pair parameters needed for logging level adjustment and transmitting them through efficient satellite metadata channels, the system enables frequent logging adjustments without proportionally increasing communication overhead
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring multiple error-logging levels and their corresponding key-value pairs in advance. When errors occur, the system can immediately activate the appropriate pre-prepared logging configuration through satellite metadata without requiring real-time complex processing or large data transmissions, thus improving error resolution speed while minimizing communication overhead
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AI summary
Methods and systems for utilizing satellite signals to dynamically adjust how content receivers store log data to diagnose errors. A content distributor selects content receivers having at least one error in an error group and selects an error-logging level to diagnose the at least one error in the selected content receivers based on the error group. The content distributor selects a key-value pair for the error-logging level and generate metadata that identifies the selected content receivers and the key-value pair. The content distributor then transmits a satellite signal with the metadata to the selected content receivers. Each selected content receiver receives the satellite signal with the metadata. The content receivers extract the metadata from the satellite signal and determines the key-value pair from the extracted metadata. The content receivers then set the error-logging level based on the key-value pair and store logs of operational data based to the error-logging level.