Unified Service Provisioning Platform for CSP and Content Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current digital content providers face challenges with direct-to-consumer models, requiring separate applications, logins, and billing integrations, which are cumbersome for consumers and costly and time-consuming for providers, necessitating a more efficient service provisioning system.
Innovation Solution
A platform that manages service provisioning for communication service providers (CSPs) and digital content partners, allowing for onboarding and integration, enabling frictionless digital service delivery through APIs for direct carrier billing and unified payment management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital content providers use a direct-to-consumer approach, then they can provide digital content directly to consumers, but consumers must install separate applications for each provider and manage separate logins, payments, and profiles
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple digital content provider services into a single unified application interface. Consumers can access content from multiple providers through one application with one set of credentials, eliminating the need to install and manage separate applications and accounts for each provider.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified application provides universal access to digital content from multiple providers through a single interface. The system handles multiple functions including authentication, content delivery, and billing across different providers within one application, making it multi-functional rather than requiring separate specialized applications.
2Reliability
If digital content providers integrate individually with consumers, then they can establish direct service delivery, but they must create expensive billing, identity and activation integrations that take months
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a unified application as an intermediary between digital content providers and consumers. This intermediary handles authentication, billing, and content delivery coordination, eliminating the need for providers to create complex individual integrations. The intermediary abstracts the complexity away from providers while maintaining reliable service delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary setup and integration work through the unified application before actual content delivery begins. Authentication, billing arrangements, and service configurations are established in advance through the intermediary, so that when content delivery starts, the infrastructure is already in place and ready to operate reliably.
3Ease of manufacture
If digital content providers create individual billing and identity integrations, then they can manage their own service delivery, but the integration process becomes costly and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex billing, identity, and activation integration functions from individual digital content providers and consolidates them into the unified application. This extraction simplifies the providers' integration architecture while maintaining full service provisioning capability through the centralized system.
Data Source
AI summary
As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for a platform managing service provisioning for a communication service provider (CSP) and digital content partner integration. In use, a digital content partner is onboarded to a platform. Additionally, CSP is onboarded to the platform. Further, service provisioning for an integration of the CSP and the digital content partner is managed by the platform.