Virtual Data Sharing Pool for Mobile Allowance Redistribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Communication service providers charge users based on data usage exceeding their allotted plans, leading to inefficiencies as some users consume less data than others, resulting in unused allowances expiring.
Innovation Solution
A method and system enabling users to share data allowances, reward points, and membership benefits within designated groups, allowing users to deposit and withdraw these resources virtually through a server-based service, facilitating equitable data usage and resource distribution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If data service plans provide predetermined data allowance to each individual, then users can use data without charging within the allowance, but remaining data allowance expires after a predetermined time period causing waste
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual data allowances into a shared data pool that can be accessed by multiple users within a group. The server consolidates data allowances from multiple subscribers and manages them as a collective resource, allowing any group member to utilize the combined allowance, thereby preventing waste of unused portions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically allocates data allowance among group members based on real-time needs and availability. The server continuously monitors data usage, tracks remaining allowances, and enables flexible redistribution of data resources within the group, transforming static individual allowances into dynamic shared resources.
2Productivity
If communication service provider monitors and charges each individual based on data usage, then revenue is generated from data consumption, but users with unused data allowance cannot transfer it to others causing inefficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary between the communication service provider and individual users. It manages the complex tasks of monitoring data usage across multiple users, tracking individual and shared allowances, processing deposit/withdrawal requests, and coordinating with the service provider's billing system, thereby simplifying the user experience while maintaining operational efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments data management into distinct functional modules: individual data allowance tracking, shared pool management, deposit/withdrawal processing, and billing coordination. This segmentation allows each component to operate independently and efficiently, reducing overall system complexity while improving data usage efficiency.
3Quantity of substance
If users are charged proportionally to overflowing data amount, then service provider recovers costs from high usage, but users with low usage leave data allowance unused while others exceed their limits
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables users to autonomously manage their data allowances by allowing them to deposit unused data into the shared pool and withdraw data as needed. Users can independently make deposit requests, withdraw requests, and monitor their balances without requiring manual intervention from the service provider, thereby simplifying operations while optimizing data distribution.
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosure is related a method for providing, by a server, a sharing service that enables a plurality of user equipments to share at least one of digital assets. The method may include generating a sharing group for virtually linking a first user equipment with a second user equipment in response to a grouping request message from the first user equipment, creating a virtual data sharing storage in association with the generated sharing group in order to virtually store a predetermined amount of sharing data allowance, in response to a data depositing message from the first user equipment, depositing a first amount of data allowance into the virtual data sharing storage for sharing the first amount of data allowance belonging to the first user equipment with the second user equipment virtually linked to the first user equipment as the same sharing group, and in response to a data withdrawing message from the second user equipment, withdrawing a second amount of data allowance from the sharing data allowance stored in the virtual data sharing storage for using the second amount of the sharing data allowance by the second user equipment.