Terminal Feature Configuration Decoupling for Faster 3GPP Releases
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing 3GPP communication system faces challenges in quickly adapting to market requirements due to long feature promotion times, increased product complexity, and compatibility risks from rapid feature additions, leading to inefficiencies and high costs.
Innovation Solution
A communication method and apparatus that classify configuration parameters into basic and specific parameters for different features, allowing independent configuration and decoupling, enabling flexible loading and unloading of features based on transmission requirements and service needs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If new features are continuously added to each release using linear downward expansion, then the quantity of features increases, but the complexity of product compatibility recognition and maintenance increases rapidly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments features into different releases with independent feature sets, where each release contains a subset of features rather than accumulating all features from previous releases. This segmentation allows products to selectively support specific releases based on their requirements, reducing compatibility complexity while maintaining adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of feature organization from cumulative (linear downward expansion) to modular (release-based segmentation). By altering how features are structured and grouped, the system achieves both high feature quantity and reduced compatibility complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a complete release structure with all features is supported, then all features can be accessed, but the time-to-market for new features is long as commercial system development can only be performed after complete release freezing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables preliminary development and commercialization of features in earlier releases before the complete release structure is finalized. Products can be developed and deployed with partial feature sets, and new features from subsequent releases can be added later without requiring complete release freezing, thus reducing time-to-market.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamic feature loading where products can start with a base feature set and progressively load additional features from subsequent releases as needed. This dynamic approach allows early market entry with core features while maintaining the ability to expand functionality, eliminating the need to wait for complete release freezing.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a large quantity of information elements are coupled between old and new releases, then feature evolution is achieved, but the complexity of the terminal device increases and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments information elements into release-specific groups rather than coupling them across all releases. Each release contains its own independent information elements, allowing terminal devices to only process and store the information elements relevant to the releases they support, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining feature evolution capability.
4Reliability
If all features of each release are stabilized before overall signaling design, then protocol completeness is ensured, but the promotion of new features takes long time and market requirements cannot be met quickly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial action by implementing signaling design for individual releases or feature subsets rather than requiring complete protocol stabilization across all releases. This allows new features to be promoted and deployed in specific releases with their own signaling designs, accelerating feature promotion speed while maintaining protocol completeness for each released feature set.
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AI summary
This application provides a communication method and a communication apparatus. In this method, configuration parameters of a terminal device are classified into a basic configuration parameter (namely, a common parameter of a plurality of features) and a configuration parameter of a specific feature (namely, a specific parameter of the specific feature), so that parameter configuration is independently performed for different features, the different features are decoupled from each other, and the configuration parameter of the specific feature can be added or deleted. This effectively reduces complexity of the terminal device, ensures quick marketization of a terminal device of a related feature, and avoids a compatibility risk.