Bulk Message Consolidation for Network Bandwidth Reduction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Modern businesses face excessive network bandwidth and processing overhead due to the large number of separate messages generated by business process management and business application monitoring systems, which are not efficiently handled by existing technologies.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that combine multiple messages intended for the same destination into a single message, formatted according to a common protocol, allowing for bulk transfer and processing, thereby reducing network load and improving efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If multiple separate messages are transmitted for business process management and monitoring, then complete information transfer is achieved, but network bandwidth consumption and processing overhead increase excessively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation transfer completenessVSAvoidnetwork bandwidth consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple separate messages into a single bulk message that contains multiple individual messages. This merging approach maintains information transfer completeness while significantly reducing network bandwidth consumption and processing overhead by transmitting multiple messages in one consolidated packet rather than as separate packets.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Loss of information

If multiple separate messages are transmitted for business process management and monitoring, then complete information transfer is achieved, but processing overhead increases excessively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation transfer completenessVSAvoidprocessing overhead
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent consolidates multiple separate messages into a single bulk message structure. This reduces processing overhead by eliminating the need to handle multiple separate message packets, reducing context switching, and minimizing the total number of processing operations required while maintaining complete information transfer.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Ease of operation

If messages are transmitted individually, then message processing is simple, but network load becomes excessive

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage processing simplicityVSAvoidnetwork load
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple messages into a single bulk message that can be processed as one unit. This approach maintains processing simplicity by providing a standardized bulk message format while significantly reducing network load by transmitting multiple messages in a single network packet rather than individually.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentEP2099168B1System, method and computer program product for bulk event transfer
Publication Date: 2012.10.24 SOFTWARE AG
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AI summary

A system, method and computer program product related to the bulk transfer of events are provided. The events may be transferred between various nodes on a network. A first node on the network may have various events to be transmitted over the network to other nodes. The events may be arranged into distinct messages. Some of the messages may be intended for the same destination node. Those messages intended for the same destination node may be combined together into a single messages. The single message may be transmitted over the network to the destination node. The destination node may then process the single message to retrieve the plurality of messages from the single message.