Wireless Router Emergency Access Bypassing Network Congestion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cellular network priority systems, such as WPS, face challenges in ensuring reliable access to communication networks during emergencies due to insufficient and inconsistent coverage, particularly in congested areas, which hinders emergency calls and communications.
Innovation Solution
The system allows emergency personnel to commandeers wireless access networks by using a wireless router with a network access system that stores both a router-specific password and a common emergency password, enabling mobile devices to connect to the network during emergencies, thus bypassing congested areas and ensuring reliable communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If cellular networks are used for emergency calls during emergencies, then emergency communication can be established, but network congestion prevents reliable access in congested areas
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a private wireless access network as an intermediary communication channel. When cellular networks become congested during emergencies, emergency personnel can bypass the congested public network and use privately deployed wireless access points to establish reliable communication. This intermediary network resolves the contradiction by providing an alternative path that avoids the harmful congestion effect.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the communication infrastructure into public cellular networks and private wireless access networks. By dividing the communication pathways, emergency personnel can switch between segments based on availability - using the public cellular network when accessible, and the private wireless network when the public network is congested, thereby ensuring reliable emergency communication access.
2Reliability
If WPS priority calling protocols are implemented, then high-priority emergency calls can be prioritized, but quality of service limitations reduce effectiveness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the priority communication function from the complex WPS protocol framework and implements it through simpler private wireless access networks. Instead of relying on complex priority queuing and network management protocols, the system creates dedicated private access points that provide guaranteed access for emergency personnel, thereby achieving reliable priority call access with reduced implementation complexity.
3Area of stationary object
If cellular coverage is expanded to improve emergency access, then more areas can be covered, but coverage remains insufficient in certain geographical locations and structures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a new dimension to network coverage by deploying private wireless access networks in parallel with the existing cellular infrastructure. Instead of solely expanding cellular coverage horizontally, the system creates vertical redundancy by introducing alternative communication pathways through privately owned wireless access points, ensuring emergency access in areas where cellular coverage is insufficient.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are described herein for providing emergency personnel and other users access to a communications network during an emergency situation, event, or scenario. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide mobile devices with access to a communications network during an emergency situation, by receiving, at an access point to the communications network, a request from a mobile device to connect to the communications network via the access point, determining the request includes user credentials associated with authorizing a user of the mobile device to use services provided by the communications network during the emergency situation, and connecting the mobile device to the communications network via the access point based on the user credentials.