Wireless Network Configuration with Failure Feedback and Parameter Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

The process of reconfiguring a wireless network after failure is complex and time-consuming due to users not knowing the actual cause of configuration failures in smart home products, leading to repetitive and tedious network setup.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for wireless network configuration that monitors execution results, determines failure reasons, and performs operations such as outputting prompt information or adjusting parameters to address specific failure causes, thereby reducing user intervention.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If generic error prompts are displayed when network configuration fails, then the system provides a standardized response, but the user cannot identify the actual cause of failure leading to repeated configuration attempts

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenetwork configuration processVSAvoidfailure cause information
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by capturing specific failure reasons during network configuration (such as connection rejected, timeout, or authentication failed) and presenting these detailed reasons to the user through the mobile terminal, enabling users to understand and correct the actual problem rather than receiving generic error messages

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The mobile terminal acts as an intermediary between the wireless device and the user, receiving failure reason information from the wireless device and presenting it in a user-friendly format, thereby bridging the gap between system-level error detection and user-level problem resolution

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If users manually reconfigure the network from scratch after failure, then the configuration process can be completed, but the process becomes tedious and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenetwork configuration successVSAvoidreconfiguration time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting and reporting the specific failure reason before the user attempts reconfiguration, allowing users to address the root cause directly rather than repeating the entire configuration process, thereby reducing reconfiguration time and improving success rate

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If detailed failure reason monitoring and reporting is implemented, then user experience is improved, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenetwork configuration processVSAvoidconfiguration system
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The wireless device performs self-service by automatically monitoring its own network configuration status, detecting failure reasons, and reporting them to the mobile terminal without requiring additional external monitoring equipment or complex diagnostic tools, thereby improving user experience while minimizing system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12382309B2Method and apparatus for wireless network configuration, storage medium and processor
Publication Date: 2025.08.05 GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCE INC OF ZHUHAI
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AI summary

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for wireless network configuration, a storage medium and a processor. The method includes: monitoring an execution result of a network configuration step in a wireless network configuration process; determining a corresponding failure reason when the execution result of the network configuration step is failure; and executing an operation corresponding to the failure reason. The operation comprises one of the following: outputting prompt information containing the failure reason and adjusting parameters of a network configuration device.