Automatic Vehicle Network Access via Self-Registration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users in vehicles, such as aircraft or boats, face challenges in accessing preferred communication networks automatically due to the unavailability of traditional cellular networks, requiring manual configuration that is often knowledge-intensive and inaccessible to many users.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that enables a user device to automatically configure and access a preferred communication network by determining its location within a vehicle, obtaining a list of available networks, selecting based on predetermined characteristics, and transmitting registration credentials to the vehicle's computing system for network access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual configuration is used to access communication networks in vehicles, then users can connect to networks, but users require knowledge of installed network equipment which is not conventionally available
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables user devices to automatically configure themselves to access communication networks by retrieving available network information from the vehicle computing system and performing self-registration, eliminating the need for user knowledge of network equipment details
Solution Approach 2:
The vehicle computing system acts as an intermediary that provides available communication network information to user devices and facilitates automatic registration, bridging the gap between network equipment and users without requiring users to know equipment details
2Ease of operation
If automatic configuration is implemented, then ease of operation improves, but device complexity increases due to additional configuration steps
Solution Approach 1:
The user device automatically retrieves available communication network information from the vehicle computing system and configures itself without user intervention, performing self-registration with the selected network while the user simply initiates the process
3Ease of operation
If traditional cellular networks are used in vehicles, then network access is simple, but cellular networks are unavailable in many vehicle locations
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables user devices to access multiple types of communication networks including satellite-based networks and other non-traditional networks in addition to cellular networks, making the system universally applicable across different vehicle locations and conditions
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for configuring a user device to access a communicating network is provided. A user device may execute an application configured to support voice communications when the user device is located within a plurality of vehicles. The user device may determine, via the application, that the user device is in a vehicle of the plurality of vehicles. The use device may obtain, via the application and from a computing system associated with the vehicle, a list of communication networks that support voice bearers available based upon a current state of the vehicle. The user device may select, via the application, a preferred communication network from the list of communication networks based on one or more predetermined characteristics of the communication networks. The user device may configure, via the application, the user device with credentials to access the preferred communication network. The user device may transmit, to the computing system associated with the vehicle, a registration message that includes the credentials for the preferred communication network.