Blog Article Compression by Storage Growth and Access Frequency

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing blog server technologies face challenges in efficiently managing storage resources, leading to discomfort for users due to forced article limitations and deletions, which result in performance issues from high process loads associated with compressing and decompressing processes during access requests.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device that includes a tendency obtaining unit, threshold setting unit, and determining unit to assess storage capacity needs and accessibility, selectively compressing articles based on these factors, and a compressing and decompressing unit to manage article compression and decompression dynamically, avoiding decompression during viewing when possible.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If articles are compressed to secure storage resources, then storage capacity utilization is improved, but process load increases and response time deteriorates due to decompression requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage capacity utilizationVSAvoidresponse time
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary compression of articles during storage operations, so that when articles are retrieved, they are already in compressed form and can be transmitted directly without decompression. This eliminates the decompression step that was causing response time delays while maintaining storage efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the state parameter of articles from uncompressed to compressed form during storage, and maintains this compressed state during retrieval and transmission. This parameter change eliminates the need for decompression operations, thereby improving response time while preserving storage capacity benefits.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Quantity of substance

If storage capacity is limited to manage resources, then resource utilization is improved, but user experience deteriorates due to forced article deletion

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage resource managementVSAvoiduser experience
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the physical state of stored articles from uncompressed to compressed, which reduces the space occupied by each article by a significant margin. This allows the system to maintain larger effective storage capacity without deleting user articles, thereby preserving user experience while improving resource management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates compressed versions of user articles for storage, which are functional equivalents that occupy less space. These compressed copies maintain the essential information and functionality of the original articles while requiring minimal storage resources, allowing the system to retain more user content within the same storage limits.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Ease of operation

If decompression is performed during access requests, then article accessibility is improved, but process load increases and system performance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvearticle accessibilityVSAvoidprocess load
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSPower

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs the compression action preliminarily during the storage phase, so that when articles are accessed, they remain in the compressed state and can be transmitted directly without requiring decompression. This eliminates the decompression process load during access requests while maintaining article accessibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of the conventional approach where articles are stored uncompressed and decompressed during access, the system inverts this workflow by storing articles in compressed form and transmitting them directly during access. This inversion eliminates the decompression step that was causing high process load and performance deterioration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Data Source

PatentUS11281740B2Information processing device, information processing method, program and storage medium
Publication Date: 2022.03.22 RAKUTEN GROUP INC
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AI summary

An information processing device obtains an increasing tendency of a storage capacity utilized by a blog containing at least one article, sets, to the blog, a threshold for determining whether or not to compress at least a part of the article contained in the blog in accordance with the increasing tendency, determines whether or not the blog is to be compressed based on a total data amount of the at least one article contained in the blog and on the threshold, and determines whether or not to compress each of the at least one article contained in the blog in accordance with a degree of accessibility.