Wireless Profile Traversal via Context Rules

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Solution Overview

Problem

Wireless devices face challenges in efficiently selecting the appropriate operating profile from a large number of available profiles in dynamic environments, where the device may need to communicate with various access points requiring different configurations.

Innovation Solution

A wireless device equipped with a traversal rules base, profile database, and profile selection module that determines the environmental context and applies relevant traversal rules to identify and configure the appropriate wireless profile for communication.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a wireless device stores many different wireless configurations for dynamic environments, then the device can adapt to various environmental contexts, but the time required to select the appropriate profile increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to adapt to different environmental contextsVSAvoidtime required to select appropriate profile

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent pre-establishes multiple traversal rulesets that define different strategies for searching through wireless profiles. Each ruleset contains pre-defined criteria and prioritization logic that can be applied immediately when a context change is detected, eliminating the need to create selection logic in real-time and significantly reducing profile selection time

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent divides the large set of wireless profiles into multiple context-specific groups, with each group associated with a particular traversal ruleset. This segmentation allows the device to narrow down the search space from thousands of profiles to a manageable subset based on the current environmental context, thereby reducing selection time while maintaining adaptability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If the wireless device uses a systematic method to traverse through available profiles, then the device can identify the desired profile more efficiently, but the complexity of the profile management system increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveefficiency of profile identificationVSAvoidcomplexity of profile management system

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal traversal framework that can handle different profile selection scenarios through a single integrated system. The traversal rulesets are designed to be context-agnostic and can be applied regardless of the specific environment or profile type, reducing the need for multiple specialized management systems while maintaining high efficiency across diverse situations

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces traversal rulesets as an intermediary layer between the environmental context detection and the actual profile selection. This intermediary contains the complex traversal logic and prioritization rules, shielding the rest of the system from complexity while enabling efficient profile identification through structured search strategies

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS9839071B2Traversal of wireless profiles

Publication Date: 2017.12.05 LANTRONIX INC

AI summary

2 Wireless devices capable of supporting multiple wireless configuration profiles are presented. A wireless device determines an environmental context, which is used to select a profile traversal method. A profile selection module configures itself to traverse available profiles according the traversals method to identify an acceptable profile. Once identified, the wireless device's communication port is configured to operate according to the profile.