Telecommunications Network Configuration Based on User Sensitivity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing telecommunications networks fail to account for varying user sensitivities to sensory asynchronicity, leading to inefficient resource use and unsatisfactory service quality for users with different physical capabilities.

Innovation Solution

A method to configure a telecommunications network by identifying User Equipment (UE) capabilities and adjusting network connections based on physical capability information, including impairments and heightened skills, to optimize resource utilization and service quality.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the same level of service is delivered to all users irrespective of their sensitivity variation, then service quality consistency is improved, but network resource efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice quality consistencyVSAvoidnetwork resource efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by customizing network service parameters according to each user's specific sensory sensitivity characteristics. Different users receive tailored network configurations (e.g., latency thresholds, bandwidth allocation) based on their individual physical capabilities, rather than applying a uniform service level to all users. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining service quality consistency through personalized adaptation while optimizing network resource efficiency for each user segment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes parameter changes by dynamically adjusting network configuration parameters (such as latency requirements, bandwidth allocation, and priority levels) based on ascertained user physical capability information. The system modifies service delivery parameters to match user sensitivity profiles, thereby maintaining consistent quality experience across diverse users while improving overall network resource efficiency through targeted optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If high service standards are provided to all users, then user satisfaction is improved, but network resource utilization deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser satisfactionVSAvoidnetwork resource utilization
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies partial or excessive action by providing enhanced service standards selectively to users who demonstrate higher sensitivity to service quality variations, rather than uniformly applying high service standards to all users. The system ascertains user physical capabilities and delivers appropriately scaled service levels, ensuring user satisfaction for sensitive users while avoiding excessive resource consumption for less sensitive users, thereby improving overall network resource utilization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements local quality by customizing service delivery according to individual user sensitivity profiles. Users with higher sensory sensitivity receive enhanced service standards (lower latency, higher bandwidth priority), while users with lower sensitivity receive standard service levels. This targeted approach maintains high user satisfaction for vulnerable users while optimizing network resource utilization across the entire user base.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Reliability

If network configuration is customized for each user's physical capability, then service quality is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice qualityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by ascertaining user physical capability information in advance of service delivery and pre-configuring appropriate network parameters based on this information. The system establishes user profiles containing sensitivity characteristics and pre-determines optimal network configurations for each user type, thereby simplifying real-time service delivery while maintaining high service quality. This upfront preparation reduces the complexity of ongoing service customization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary component (user profile database and capability ascertainment module) that mediates between user characteristics and network configuration. This intermediary layer stores user physical capability information and translates it into appropriate network parameters, thereby decoupling the complexity of customization logic from the core network infrastructure and simplifying the overall system architecture while enabling personalized service quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentEP4059190B1Method of configuring a telecommunications network
Publication Date: 2025.07.02 BRITISH TELECOM PLC
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AI summary

A method (200) of configuring a telecommunications network (100), the method comprising the steps 5 of: identifying a User Equipment (UE) (110) utilising the telecommunications network; ascertaining physical capability information associated with a user of the identified UE (220); determining a network configuration in dependence upon the ascertained physical capability information (240); and configuring a network connection for the identified UE according to the determined network configuration (250).