Bidding Network for Digital Object Forwarding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Intermediaries in data transmission networks incur substantial costs for deploying, maintaining, and operating equipment to forward digital objects, and existing mechanisms lack efficient methods to optimize the forwarding process and compensate intermediaries for their services.
Innovation Solution
A system where intermediaries bid for the service of forwarding digital objects, with a negotiation protocol facilitating the selection of intermediaries based on bids that specify terms such as price, quality of service, and reliability, allowing for the most cost-effective and efficient routing of digital objects through multiple paths.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If intermediaries deploy and operate equipment to forward digital objects, then information forwarding capability is improved, but operational costs increase substantially
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a bidding service as an intermediary layer between digital object sources and intermediaries. This bidding service receives bids from multiple intermediaries, evaluates them based on cost, quality of service, and reliability metrics, and selects the optimal intermediary for each forwarding task. This mediator mechanism enables cost-effective resource allocation without requiring each intermediary to independently bear full operational costs, thus resolving the contradiction between improved forwarding capability and reduced operational costs.
2Reliability
If multiple intermediaries compete to forward digital objects, then service quality and reliability are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bidding service performs multiple functions within a single system component: it receives bids from intermediaries, evaluates bid quality and reliability, determines optimal routing decisions, and manages intermediary selection. By consolidating these diverse functions into one universal bidding service, the system achieves high service quality through competitive intermediary selection while avoiding the complexity that would arise from implementing separate mechanisms for each function.
3Loss of energy
If intermediaries receive compensation based on competitive bids, then cost-effectiveness is improved, but negotiation overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system requires intermediaries to submit bids in advance before actual digital object forwarding occurs. These preliminary bids include pre-calculated cost, quality of service, and reliability metrics. The bidding service evaluates and selects winners from these pre-submitted bids, eliminating the need for time-consuming real-time negotiations when forwarding actually occurs. This preliminary bidding action achieves cost-effective intermediary selection while minimizing negotiation overhead during operational phases.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are systems and/or apparatuses of transmitting digital objects to a destination. In particular, disclosed are systems and/or apparatuses of facilitating bidding for the business of forwarding digital objects in a data transmission network.