UE Network Name Display Using Language-Matched Character Selection
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
User equipment (UE) often displays network operator names in languages that users cannot understand due to language mismatches or character ambiguities, especially when roaming, leading to incorrect or incomplete network name display.
Innovation Solution
The UE receives a string of indicia with an indicator bit to determine whether to display or skip characters, and can send an uplink message indicating the user interface language, allowing it to correctly display network names by prioritizing language-matched characters and resolving ambiguities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the UE displays the network name provided by the visited PLMN, then the network name information is displayed to the user, but the language may not match the user's interface language causing incomprehensibility
Solution Approach 1:
The UE performs preliminary language matching by comparing the language of received network name characters with the user interface language before display. This preliminary action identifies language mismatches and triggers appropriate handling (skipping or substitution) to ensure the displayed information is comprehensible to the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts problematic characters from the network name string that do not match the user interface language. By identifying and separating these mismatched characters (using the indicator bit mechanism), the system can selectively skip or handle only the problematic portions while preserving compatible characters for display.
2Loss of information
If the UE displays all characters in the received string, then complete network name information is shown, but characters may be displayed in wrong language or with ambiguities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by treating different characters in the network name string differently based on their language compatibility. Each character is evaluated individually against the user interface language, and the display decision (show or skip) is made locally for each character or character group based on its language match status.
Solution Approach 2:
Before displaying the network name, the system performs preliminary language verification on each character. This preliminary action identifies characters that would cause language accuracy issues and marks them for special handling, ensuring that only language-accurate characters are displayed in the correct language.
3Ease of operation
If the UE skips characters that do not match the user interface language, then language comprehension is improved, but the network name display becomes incomplete
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and separates characters that match the user interface language from those that don't. By using the indicator bit mechanism, it identifies which character groups should be skipped and which should be displayed, allowing selective extraction of comprehensible portions while preserving information about the complete original string.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a filtered copy of the network name string that contains only the characters compatible with the user interface language. This copying approach allows the original complete information to be preserved in memory while presenting a language-appropriate subset to the user for comprehension.
4Loss of information
If the UE uses text string coding for network name display, then network information can be transmitted, but character ambiguities and encoding issues arise
Solution Approach 1:
Before displaying encoded characters, the system performs preliminary validation by checking whether the decoded characters match the expected user interface language. This preliminary action detects encoding issues and language mismatches before they result in ambiguous or incorrect display, allowing corrective measures to be taken.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces reliance on purely mechanical/automatic text encoding display with a language-aware processing system. Instead of simply decoding and displaying characters, the system substitutes in language verification and matching logic that actively checks character language compatibility against the user interface language before display.
Data Source
Figure 1
Figure 2~3
Figure 4~5
AI summary
A method at a user equipment, the method including receiving a string of indicia identifying at the user equipment, the string further comprising an indicator bit; based on the indicator bit, performing one of: determining whether the user equipment supports one or more indicium of the string of indicia and skipping display of characters corresponding to non-supported indicia; or displaying all indicium within the string of indicia. In other embodiments, utilizing a language delineator to choose a string of indicia to display or providing a language delineator to a network element and using the complete string of indicia received from a network element based on the provided language delineator.