Self-Provisioning Mobile Devices Deployable Networks

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional deployables in public safety networks face inefficiencies in subscriber provisioning due to the need for frequent updates and maintenance of centralized provisioning information, especially during emergency situations where only a subset of personnel may be deployed, leading to burdensome data synchronization processes.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for efficient and scalable provisioning using a centralized registration facility that generates and encrypts digital packets containing user authentication and service provisioning information, which can be decrypted and applied locally in deployables, eliminating the need for duplicating centralized provisioning data in each unit.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If centralized provisioning information is duplicated in each deployable unit, then authentication capability is ensured, but data synchronization burden increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication capabilityVSAvoiddata synchronization time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the essential authentication capability from centralized provisioning data by generating self-contained authentication packets that contain only the necessary credentials. These packets are transferred to deployable units independently, eliminating the need to duplicate entire centralized provisioning databases while maintaining authentication reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The centralized provisioning information is segmented into individual authentication packets for each user or group. Each packet contains only the specific authentication data needed for that entity, allowing selective transfer and provisioning in deployable units without synchronizing all provisioning data, thus reducing synchronization burden while ensuring authentication capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If all personnel are provisioned in deployables, then complete authentication coverage is achieved, but provisioning complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication coverageVSAvoidprovisioning complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements partial provisioning by transferring only the authentication packets for personnel who are actually deployed to a specific location. Instead of provisioning all personnel in the organization, the system selectively provisions only those needed, achieving sufficient authentication coverage while reducing provisioning complexity and data transfer requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The provisioning system becomes dynamic by allowing authentication packets to be transferred on-demand based on deployment requirements. The deployable units can be quickly reconfigured by transferring different sets of authentication packets as personnel assignments change, enabling adaptable authentication coverage without complex re-provisioning procedures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Loss of information

If frequent updates are made to deployable provisioning data, then data currency is maintained, but maintenance burden increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata currencyVSAvoidmaintenance effort

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent prepares authentication packets in advance with embedded expiration timestamps and validity periods. Users are provisioned with authentication credentials that are pre-configured with their validity duration, allowing the system to maintain data currency by automatically enforcing expiration rather than requiring frequent manual updates, thus reducing maintenance burden.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The manual process of frequently updating provisioning data in deployable units is replaced by an automated system that tracks authentication packet validity periods. The system automatically identifies and re-provisions expired credentials, substituting mechanical update procedures with automated lifecycle management, thereby maintaining data currency while reducing maintenance effort.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS10716001B2Self-provisioning of mobile devices in deployable mobile telecommunications networks

Publication Date: 2020.07.14 STAR SOLUTIONS INT

AI summary

Systems and methods for self-provisioning of mobile devices in a deployable telecommunications network are disclosed. A telecommunications network may include an enhanced provisioning server for recording and maintaining user data and authentication information associating users with applications of the network, and for generating secure, transportable user credentials that carry the user data and authentication information on a per-user basis. An enhanced deployable mobile communication system may include local versions of the applications, as well as a local subscriber database and provisioning server. The enhanced deployable mobile system securely import individual user data and authentication information from a user's transportable credentials, and use the imported data to provision the user in the deployable mobile system. Multiple deployable systems may be used, each enabling individual users to self-provision. Each may function as a standalone mobile network even in the absence of connectivity to a core telecommunications network.