Unit-Level Service Qualification Platform for Multi-Unit Buildings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for qualifying network service coverage in multi-unit buildings, such as 5G Ultra Wide Band service, often result in false positives due to geographical constraints, leading to wastage of resources and customer complaints, as they do not accurately determine signal availability at the unit level within these buildings.
Innovation Solution
A service qualification platform that uses geographic information systems to determine the precise location of units within multi-unit buildings and calculates signal strength at the unit level, providing a service qualification metric to accurately assess network service capability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If general street address-based service qualification is used, then service coverage can be broadly provided, but false positives occur due to geographical constraints at unit level
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the service qualification process from building-level to unit-level assessment. It divides the multi-unit building into individual units and evaluates signal availability separately for each unit using unit-specific location data (latitude, longitude, floor number), thereby resolving the contradiction between broad coverage and precise measurement.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by recognizing that signal availability varies across different locations within the same building. It assigns unique geographical coordinates to each unit and evaluates service qualification locally at the unit level rather than uniformly across the entire building, eliminating false positives caused by geographical constraints.
2Measurement precision
If unit-level signal strength calculation is implemented, then service qualification accuracy is improved, but computing resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary action by pre-calculating and storing service coverage mappings and signal strength data during system initialization or periodic updates. When a service request is received, the system retrieves pre-computed unit-level qualifications rather than performing real-time signal calculations, thereby maintaining high accuracy while minimizing computing resource consumption during operational queries.
3Reliability
If precise unit location data is collected and processed, then false positives are reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary service qualification platform that mediates between the customer's service request and the network service provider. This platform handles the complex tasks of collecting unit location data, calculating signal strength, and determining service qualification, thereby reducing system complexity for individual components while maintaining high reliability through centralized processing.
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AI summary
A service qualification platform may receive, from a user device, a service request to qualify a unit of a multi-unit building to receive a service. The service qualification platform may obtain a service coverage mapping associated with the multi-unit building and may provide, to the user device and via a user interface that is associated with a geographic information system, a unit location request for an indication of a location of the unit within the multi-unit building. The service qualification platform may receive unit location information that is associated with the indication and may determine a service qualification metric based on the service coverage mapping and the unit location information, wherein the service qualification metric is associated with a capability of receiving the service within the unit. The service qualification platform may perform an action associated with the service qualification metric.