Wireless Coordination Device for Cellular Data Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing network communications across multiple cellular devices with varying plans, data rates, bandwidth, and restrictions is inefficient, as existing systems lack a centralized method to optimize data transmission and connectivity.
Innovation Solution
A wireless coordination device establishes connections with multiple cellular devices, determines performance metrics, evaluates these metrics, and selects a primary device for all cellular communications based on desirable attributes like cost, bitrate, and connectivity, directing other devices to use this selected device for data transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple cellular devices operate independently with different cellular plans, then each device can maintain its own connectivity and data transmission, but the system lacks centralized optimization leading to inefficient data transmission and higher costs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a gateway device as an intermediary between multiple cellular devices and the cellular network. The gateway establishes a wireless network (e.g., Wi-Fi) to connect multiple cellular devices, receives data from them, and transmits it through a single selected cellular device. This mediator enables centralized optimization of data transmission without requiring complex modifications to each individual device, resolving the contradiction between improving transmission efficiency and maintaining system simplicity.
2Loss of energy
If each cellular device uses its own cellular connection, then devices have independent connectivity, but data transmission costs increase and bandwidth is not optimized
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple cellular connections into a single transmission channel by having the gateway consolidate data from multiple cellular devices and route it through one selected cellular device with favorable attributes (low cost, high bandwidth). This combining approach reduces total data transmission costs and optimizes bandwidth utilization while the gateway maintains the ability to switch between different cellular devices based on performance metrics, preserving connectivity flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes operational parameters by evaluating performance metrics (cost, bandwidth, signal strength) of different cellular devices and selecting the optimal one for data transmission. The gateway can switch which cellular device serves as the primary transmission channel based on real-time conditions, allowing the system to adapt to changing network conditions and cost structures while maintaining efficient data transmission.
3Quantity of substance
If cellular devices have restricted data amounts on their plans, then individual device data usage is limited, but the system cannot optimize data sharing across devices
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway device provides universal data management functionality for multiple cellular devices. It monitors data usage across all connected devices, manages the pool of available data from the selected cellular device's plan, and allocates data resources appropriately. This multi-functional approach allows the system to pool and share data resources across multiple devices, effectively increasing the total available data volume while the gateway handles the complexity of data management centrally, keeping individual device operations simple.
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AI summary
A system and method for coordinating wireless cellular communications for a plurality of cellular devices at a wireless coordination device. The method comprises establishing a data connection between the wireless coordination device and the plurality of cellular devices, wherein the cellular devices are configured to connect to at least one cellular network via wireless cellular communications; determining whether each cellular device is currently connected to a cellular network; determining at least one performance metric for each of the plurality of cellular devices that are currently connected to a cellular network; evaluating the performance metric(s) for each of the plurality of cellular devices; selecting one of the plurality of cellular devices based at least in part on one or more the evaluations; and configuring each of the plurality of cellular devices to carry out wireless cellular communications through the selected cellular device.