User Equipment Event Reporting Permission Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current communication systems lack a mechanism to securely and efficiently manage user equipment-related event reporting permissions, leading to potential privacy issues and unauthorized monitoring.

Innovation Solution

The introduction of a user equipment (UE) that generates and sends messages containing permissions for reporting UE-related events to monitoring entities, allowing for controlled reporting and privacy management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If event reporting is enabled for monitoring entities, then monitoring capability is improved, but user privacy security deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemonitoring capabilityVSAvoidprivacy security
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments event reporting permissions by creating distinct permission indicators for different monitoring entities and different event types. Each monitoring entity receives only the specific event notifications it is authorized to receive, rather than all events being broadcast universally. This segmentation approach enables reliable monitoring where needed while protecting user privacy by limiting exposure of sensitive events to unauthorized entities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Object-affected harmful factors

If permission control mechanisms are implemented, then privacy protection is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprivacy protectionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by establishing permission indicators and authorization rules before event reporting occurs. The system pre-configures which monitoring entities are authorized to receive which types of events, and these permissions are stored and referenced during event notification processes. This upfront setup enables privacy protection without adding complex real-time decision-making logic during event reporting, thereby limiting the increase in system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If selective event reporting is implemented, then user control over privacy is improved, but information loss increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser controlVSAvoidevent information
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by making event reporting selective and adaptive based on user-defined permissions and monitoring entity authorizations. The system dynamically determines which events are reported to which entities based on the intersection of user consent and entity authorization, rather than using a static all-or-nothing approach. This dynamic selection enables users to maintain control over their privacy while ensuring that relevant event information is still reported to appropriate monitoring entities for legitimate purposes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20250071661A1Apparatus, methods, and computer programs relating to event monitoring
Publication Date: 2025.02.27 NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
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AI summary

A user equipment comprises at least one processor and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the user equipment at least to perform: generating a message, said message comprising one or more permissions for reporting of user equipment related events to one or more monitoring entities; and causing the message to be sent to one or more controlling network entities.