Telematic Status Code Clustering for State Recognition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current telematic systems face challenges in accurately recognizing and indicating system states due to varied factors influencing network access, resource sharing, and provider configurations, leading to misleading error messages and incorrect application state reporting.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method that clusters status codes hierarchically and transmits them based on predetermined conditions, allowing for precise recognition and management of system states, reducing error recognition time, and optimizing communication efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If status codes are transmitted without hierarchical clustering, then all status information is provided to the requester, but the system complexity and processing overhead increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestatus information completenessVSAvoidsystem processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments status codes into hierarchical clusters (e.g., critical, warning, information levels) and transmits only relevant clusters based on system state. This segmentation reduces the volume of transmitted data while maintaining information completeness, directly resolving the contradiction between providing full status information and reducing processing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different hierarchical clusters of status codes are transmitted with different priorities and levels of detail based on local system conditions. Critical status codes are transmitted immediately with high priority, while less critical codes are transmitted with lower priority or aggregated, allowing the system to adapt transmission quality to local needs and reduce overall processing overhead.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Loss of information

If all status codes are transmitted to the requester, then complete system state information is available, but communication efficiency and processing speed decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem state informationVSAvoidcommunication efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the most relevant status code clusters from the complete set of status codes and transmits them to the requester. By taking out and transmitting only critical or currently relevant status information (e.g., only critical alerts during normal operation), the system maintains complete information availability when needed while improving communication efficiency during routine operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The transmission of status code clusters is made dynamic based on system state. The system adapts which hierarchical clusters are transmitted in real-time - transmitting more detailed information when anomalies are detected and aggregating or reducing transmission during normal operation, thus maintaining information completeness while optimizing communication efficiency dynamically.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Measurement precision

If status codes from all hierarchical clusters are transmitted, then comprehensive error recognition is achieved, but error recognition time and processing overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveerror recognition accuracyVSAvoiderror recognition time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary filtering and prioritization of status code clusters before transmission. Critical status code clusters are pre-identified and prepared for immediate transmission, while less critical clusters are held for later processing. This preliminary action ensures that when errors occur, only the most relevant status information is transmitted first, achieving accurate error recognition without the time penalty of processing all status codes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

When critical errors are detected, the system skips transmission of non-critical status code clusters and rushes through transmission of only the most relevant critical clusters. This selective skipping allows the system to achieve comprehensive error recognition for critical issues while significantly reducing the time required to transmit and process status information during error conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #21Skipping (Rushing through)

Data Source

PatentEP2546745B1Indicating states in a telematic system
Publication Date: 2017.11.29 HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYST GMBH
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for delivering status information to a requester, comprising providing status codes, clustering the status codes in a number of status codes clusters, hierarchically sorting the status codes clusters and transmitting at least one of the status codes to the requester depending on the hierarchy of the sorted status codes clusters.