Telematics Device Identifier Verification System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Telematics service providers face challenges in maintaining accurate and consistent mobile device provisioning parameters, leading to potential service disruptions, especially in emergency situations, due to errors in device identification information.
Innovation Solution
A method is described to ensure accuracy and consistency of mobile station provisioning and activation parameters by storing them on a computer-readable medium, requesting and comparing parameters from mobile stations and carrier network operators, and utilizing secondary connections or third-party service providers to verify and update these parameters.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If device identifiers are stored and updated manually at multiple locations, then provisioning can be maintained, but errors in device identification information occur leading to service disruptions
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically verifies device identifiers by comparing identifiers obtained from mobile stations with identifiers obtained from carrier network operators. This feedback mechanism detects and corrects identifier errors, ensuring accuracy while maintaining service continuity without manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-verification of device identifiers by automatically obtaining identifiers from multiple sources (mobile stations and carrier network operators) and comparing them. This self-service approach eliminates manual provisioning errors and maintains accurate device identification information.
2Measurement precision
If device identifiers are verified through multiple sources, then identifier accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The verification system serves multiple functions: obtaining identifiers from mobile stations, obtaining identifiers from carrier network operators, comparing identifiers for accuracy verification, and updating stored identifiers. This multi-functional approach achieves high identifier accuracy while consolidating verification operations into a unified system.
3Measurement precision
If manual provisioning updates are performed frequently, then identifier accuracy is maintained, but time consumption and operational overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs periodic automatic verification of device identifiers by obtaining identifiers from mobile stations and carrier network operators at scheduled intervals. This periodic automated verification maintains identifier accuracy without requiring frequent manual provisioning updates, reducing time consumption and operational overhead.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are described for confirming the accuracy and consistency of cellular device provisioning parameters such as telematics station identifiers (TSTIDs) stored at multiple locations. One implementation consists of a method for ensuring accuracy and consistency of parameters stored at multiple locations. The method involves storing parameters on a computer readable medium, connecting to a mobile station corresponding to a first stored parameter, and requesting the mobile station with which a connection has been established report parameters stored at the mobile station. The method further involves establishing an API call with a carrier network operator who provides services to the mobile station, transmitting a second stored parameter to the carrier network operator and requesting the carrier network operator report parameters corresponding to the second stored parameter. The method then compares the parameters received from the mobile station with the parameters received from the carrier network operator.