Telecom Registration Notification for User Activity Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern telecommunications systems face challenges in efficiently collecting user activity information without significantly impacting the signaling and nodes, which is crucial for resource dimensioning and usage-based pricing.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating additional information about user service involvement in registration notifications from routing nodes to location registration nodes, allowing for detailed user and service usage tracking without requiring new messages or nodes, using activity templates to identify service-related signaling and updating registration information with timestamps.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If additional information about user service involvement is incorporated in registration notifications, then user activity information collection is improved, but message complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges user activity information collection with the existing registration notification mechanism. The routing node includes service involvement information directly in the registration notification message sent to the location registration node, eliminating the need for separate activity collection systems. This combining approach enables comprehensive user activity tracking while avoiding additional message types or nodes.
Solution Approach 2:
The registration notification message is enhanced to serve multiple functions: it continues to handle traditional registration information while simultaneously carrying service involvement status and activity information. This multi-functional message structure allows the system to collect detailed user activity data without requiring dedicated separate messaging protocols.
2Measurement precision
If routing nodes monitor and collect user activity information, then service usage tracking is improved, but node processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The routing node utilizes its existing service monitoring capabilities to automatically collect activity information as part of its normal operation. The node monitors service involvement status and collects relevant information without requiring external intervention or complex additional processing logic. This self-service approach enables precise service usage tracking while keeping node processing manageable.
3Loss of information
If location registration nodes update registration information with activity data, then user profile completeness is improved, but data processing load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The routing node performs preliminary action by collecting and preparing activity information before sending it to the location registration node. The service involvement status and activity data are gathered in advance during the registration process, allowing the location registration node to receive pre-processed information that requires minimal additional processing, thus maintaining high data processing throughput while achieving complete user profiles.
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AI summary
Method and apparatuses for collecting user activity information in a telecommunications system. A first telecommunications node (120) handling signaling of the terminal of a user sends a message (516) notifying a registration event (515) of the user to a second node (130) handling registration information of said user. The message comprises an information element (ACT) indicating whether the user has been involved in a service provided during a registration period comprised between a previous registration event (501) of said user and said notified registration event. At reception of the message, the second node updates registration information (430) and activity information (440) of the user. By including service usage information in registration notification messages, the operator of the telecommunications system can obtain information about the rate of service usage in the system without requiring implementation of neither new nodes nor new messages to be exchanged by new or existing nodes.