Wireless Device Emulation for Service Offering Survey
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for surveying wireless service provider offerings require multiple devices and models to be purchased and tested, making it time-consuming and expensive to determine which services are available to which client devices.
Innovation Solution
Emulation software on a computer linked to a wireless device allows it to emulate various device models and microbrowsers, enabling a single device to collect and report as multiple devices, thereby accessing and cataloging offerings from wireless service providers without the need for multiple device purchases.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple wireless devices and models are purchased and used to survey service provider offerings, then complete device coverage is achieved, but time consumption and cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses emulation software to create virtual copies of multiple wireless device models and microbrowsers on a single physical device. Instead of purchasing actual hardware for each device model, the system software-emulates the identification, capabilities, and behavior of various wireless devices, allowing comprehensive survey of service provider offerings through virtual replication rather than physical multiplication of devices
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes a single wireless device universal by enabling it to emulate multiple different device models and microbrowser types. The emulation software allows one device to assume the identity and characteristics of various wireless devices, making it capable of accessing and testing service provider offerings intended for any device type, thereby achieving multi-functionality without requiring multiple specialized devices
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple wireless devices and models are purchased to survey offerings, then all device-specific offerings are discovered, but cost increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces expensive physical device purchases with free or low-cost software emulation. By copying the identification and capability profiles of multiple wireless device models into emulation software, the system eliminates the need to spend money on purchasing, maintaining, and managing multiple actual wireless devices, achieving complete device coverage at minimal cost
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses inexpensive software emulations instead of expensive physical devices. The virtual device models created through emulation are cheap to implement and can be easily updated or replaced without significant investment, replacing the need for costly hardware acquisitions while maintaining comprehensive survey capabilities
3Ease of operation
If a single wireless device is used without emulation, then device simplicity is maintained, but ability to access multiple device offerings is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces emulation software as an intermediary layer between the single wireless device and the service provider offerings. This software mediator translates the device's requests by emulating appropriate device identifiers and capabilities, allowing the simple physical device to access offerings intended for various complex device types without requiring the device itself to become physically complex
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AI summary
A system and method to collect all the offerings of a wireless service provider. Wireless service providers have different types of offerings, said offerings depending on the type of wireless client device being used. A single type of device, linked to an emulation computer, can ‘spoof’ the identification of all the devices that the wireless service provider supports. The emulation computer traverses the links made available by the wireless service provider for the type device the emulation computer is ‘spoofing’.