System and method for enhanced diagnostics on mobile communication devices

• US 8,855,627 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2011
• Issued: 10/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Future Dial Inc
• Original Assignee: Future Dial Inc
• Inventors: Ding, Xinmin, Chen, Chen, Chan, Steven S., Huang, George C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Agosta, Steve D
• Application Number:
  US13/162,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20120322439A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,209 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.3, 455418-420, 455423-425, 370/310.2, 715/708, 715/709, 715/736, 714/31, 717/170, 710/36, 726/22, 726/24, 726/25
• US Class Current: 455/425
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0654 using network fault recovery ring fault isolation or reconfiguration in loop networks without recovery actions by a network management system H04L12/437
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/04 Arrangements for maintaining operational condition

Abstract

A system and method may comprise providing to a device user in response to one of a user request for troubleshooting assistance and a mobile telecommunications user device monitoring software conclusion that a problem exists, a diagnostic application specific to the mobile telecommunication user device of the device user; receiving from the device user an indication of a problem with the mobile telecommunication user device experienced by the device user; selecting an application update; providing to the device user the application update updating an application running on the mobile telecommunication user device; and determining whether the problem has been solved. If determining indicates that the problem has not been solved the method may further include deleting the application and further determining whether the problem has been solved, and if so forwarding problem solution data to a knowledge database.

Claims

1. A computing device for diagnosing problems in a mobile telecommunication user device, the computing device comprising a processing module coupled to a memory having stored thereon a set of instructions which when executed by the processing module cause the processing module to:

transmit a monitoring application to a mobile telecommunication user device to record activities of the mobile telecommunication user device and to receive data from a storage of the mobile telecommunication user device;

receive the storage data of the mobile telecommunication user device when the storage of the mobile telecommunication user device reaches a preset threshold of occupied space;

store the storage data of the mobile telecommunication user device to a data repository;

provide a diagnostic application to the mobile telecommunication user device via a communication network, in response to one of a user request for troubleshooting assistance and a mobile telecommunications user device monitoring software identification of an error;

obtain a data and program map of the mobile telecommunication user device from the diagnostic application;

compare information from the data and program map to the storage data of the mobile telecommunication user device in the data repository;

detect an error existing in the mobile telecommunication user device based on the comparison;

present an application update as a first possible solution from a series of escalating possible solutions for resolving the error, the series of possible escalating solutions comprise as a last one of the series, a suggestion for a user of the mobile telecommunication user device to visit a nearest available service location;

provide, to the user device, the application update updating an application on the user device;

determine whether the error has been corrected, and in response to determining the error has not been corrected, delete the application and determine whether the error has been corrected;

in response to determining the error has not been corrected, perform a soft reset of the mobile telecommunication user device; and

transmit results of the presentation, including error correction data, to a knowledge database when the error has been corrected.

2. The device of claim 1, the set of instructions further comprise instructions for:

transmitting to the user device, a map to the service location.

3. A method comprising:

transmitting, by a computing device, a monitoring application to a mobile telecommunication user device to record activities of the mobile telecommunication user device and to receive data from a storage of the mobile telecommunication user device;

receiving, by the computing device, the storage data of the mobile telecommunication user device when the storage of the mobile telecommunication user device reaches a preset threshold of occupied space;

storing, by the computing device, the storage data of the mobile telecommunication user device to a data repository;

providing, by the computing device, a diagnostic application to the mobile telecommunication user device via a communication network, in response to one of a user request for troubleshooting assistance and a mobile telecommunications user device monitoring software identification of an error;

obtaining, by the computing device, a data and program map of the mobile telecommunication user device from the diagnostic application;

comparing, by the computing device, information from the data and program map to the storage data of the mobile telecommunication user device in the data repository;

detecting, by the computing device, an error existing in the mobile telecommunication user device based on the comparison;

presenting, by the computing device, an application update as a first possible solution from a series of escalating possible solutions for resolving the error, the series of possible escalating solutions comprise as a last one of the series, a suggestion for a user of the mobile telecommunication user device to visit a nearest available service location;

providing, to the user device, the application update updating an application on the user device;

determining, by the computing device, whether the error has been corrected, and in response to determining the error has not been corrected, deleting, by the computing device, the application and determining whether the error has been corrected;

in response to determining the error has not been corrected, performing, by the computing device, a soft reset of the mobile telecommunication user device;

transmitting, by the computing device, results of the presentation, including error correction data, to a knowledge database when the error has been corrected.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein after the soft reset the error has not been corrected and the method further comprises:

performing, by the computing device, at least one of a data backup and a firmware update of the mobile telecommunications user device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein a firmware update of the mobile telecommunications user device fails to correct the error and the method further comprises:

performing, by the computing device, a hard reset of the mobile telecommunications user device.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising providing, by the computing device, at least one of a data restoration and the suggestion for the user of the user device to visit a mobile telecommunications user device repair center.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising forwarding, by the computing device, error correction data to the knowledge database.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein the removal of the application fails to correct the error and the method further comprises restoring the application to the mobile telecommunication user device.

9. The method of claim 3,

wherein the diagnostic application is specific to the mobile telecommunication user device and the diagnostic application is configured for launch on the mobile telecommunication user device.

10. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

providing to the user device, via a communication network, a device feature diagnostic list of applications corresponding to a mobile telecommunication user device for selection from the list by a user of the user device to indicate an existing error with an application selected from the list.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving from the user device, via a communication network, a selection of an application from the list.

12. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

detecting, by the computing device, capacity of the storage comprised within the mobile telecommunication user device.

13. A tangible and non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method, the method comprising:

transmitting a monitoring application to a mobile telecommunication user device to record activities of the mobile telecommunication user device and to receive data from a storage of the mobile telecommunication user device;

receiving the storage data of the mobile telecommunication user device when the storage of the mobile telecommunication user device reaches a preset threshold of occupied space;

storing the storage data of the mobile telecommunication user device to a data repository;

providing to the mobile telecommunication user device, in response to one of a user request for troubleshooting assistance and a mobile telecommunications user device monitoring software identification of an error, a diagnostic application specific to the mobile telecommunication user device;

obtaining a data and program map of the user device from the diagnostic application;

comparing information from the data and program map to the storage data of the mobile telecommunication user device in the data repository;

detecting an error existing in the mobile telecommunication user device based on the comparison;

presenting an application update as a first possible solution from a series of escalating possible solutions for resolving the error, the series of possible escalating solutions comprise as a last one of the series, a suggestion for a user of the user device to visit a nearest available service location;

providing to the user device the application update updating an application on the mobile telecommunication user device;

determining whether the error has been corrected, and in response to determining the error has not been corrected, deleting the application and determining whether the error has been corrected;

in response to determining the error has not been corrected, performing a soft reset of the mobile telecommunication user device; and

transmitting results of the presentation, including error correction data, to a knowledge database when the error has been corrected.