Unified Service Plan Design Center for Policy Integration

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Solution Overview

Problem

The development and implementation of network service plans are hindered by the siloed efforts of control and accounting policy specialists, leading to slow deployment and less cohesive plan design due to divergent appliance-level destinations for policy instructions.

Innovation Solution

An integrated service design center is introduced to facilitate centralized, unified development of access-control, notification, and accounting policies, enabling joint policy design and provisioning across all network appliances, thus streamlining the service plan design and deployment process.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If control and accounting policy specialists work in siloed efforts with divergent appliance-level destinations for policy instructions, then each specialist can focus on their specific domain expertise, but the deployment time for new service plans increases and plan design cohesion deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedomain expertise utilizationVSAvoidservice plan deployment speed

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges previously siloed control and accounting policy development into a unified service plan design process. The service plan design module integrates both control policy instructions and accounting policy instructions into a single coordinated framework, eliminating the need for separate appliance-level destinations and enabling simultaneous development of both policy types with improved deployment efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Adaptability or versatility

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedomain expertise utilizationVSAvoidservice plan design cohesion

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The service plan design module combines control and accounting policy development into a unified process, ensuring that both policy types are designed together with consistent objectives and requirements. This integration maintains design cohesion while preserving the domain expertise of specialists through coordinated contribution to the unified service plan

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Productivity

If an integrated service design center is introduced to enable centralized unified development of policies, then deployment time and effort are reduced, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveservice plan deployment efficiencyVSAvoidservice design system structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The service plan design module acts as an intermediary that receives service plan design inputs and automatically generates both control and accounting policy instructions. This intermediary component coordinates the integrated development process, managing the complexity internally while presenting a simplified interface for deployment and reducing overall system complexity through automation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS9858559B2Network service plan design

Publication Date: 2018.01.02 HEADWATER RESEARCH LLC

AI summary

A technique involves modular storage of network service plan components and provisioning of same. A subset of the capabilities of a service design system can be granted to a sandbox system to enable customization of service plan offerings or other controls.