Patent ID: 7818605
Filing Date: 2010-10-19
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of managing reconfigurable terminals within a radio network, the method comprising: supplying one or more agents to a network element within the radio network, the one or more agents being supplied to the network element via one or more respective agent providers; providing one or more agent platforms within the network element, the one or more agent platforms being provided for storing a respective agent, each agent platform allowing the respective agent provider to set up an agent having specific access rights, communication between respective agent platforms and agent providers being encrypted; receiving, from one or more of the reconfigurable terminals, at the one or more agent platforms, information relating to at least one of fault incidents occurring in the one or more reconfigurable terminals and reconfiguration optimization information of the one or more reconfigurable terminals; and processing, by the one or more agents, the information received at the one or more agent platforms in order to produce decision information and providing the decision information to at least one of the respective terminal, the respective agent provider, the network element, an operator of the network, and a manufacturer of the respective terminal, wherein decisions about reconfiguration optimization are partially relocated by the network element to manufacturer-specific agents, which, using the information made available to them and manufacturer-specific data, accessible only to the device manufacturer, concerning the respective terminal, produce decision information for the network element, and wherein the manufacturer-specific data includes energy consumption of the respective terminal in at least one of specific radio modes, the duration of reconfiguring, and precise characteristics of the respective terminal.