Cloud Print Apparatus Regional Data Center Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Cloud print services face challenges in providing region-specific data handling and compliance with varying information security standards across different countries and regions, leading to potential violations of local security regulations when a single data center provides services globally.

Innovation Solution

A mechanism that allows a printing control apparatus to register in a cloud print service and set a specific region for data storage and compliance, using multiple data centers in different regions to manage data according to local standards, ensuring compliance with regional regulations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a single data center provides cloud print services globally, then service coverage and accessibility are improved, but compliance with regional information security standards deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveservice coverageVSAvoidcompliance with regional security standards

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the cloud print service infrastructure into multiple regional data centers, each handling print jobs and data for specific geographic regions. This segmentation allows the system to maintain global service coverage while ensuring each region's data is processed and stored in compliance with local information security standards and regulations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements local quality by configuring each data center with region-specific security policies and compliance settings. Each data center is optimized to meet the information security requirements of its local jurisdiction, while the overall system maintains unified cloud print service functionality across all regions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Reliability

If multiple data centers are used for region-specific data handling, then compliance with information security standards is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompliance with regional security standardsVSAvoidsystem architecture

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal cloud print service platform that can operate across multiple data centers with different regional configurations. The system uses a common service framework that adapts to local requirements, allowing the same core functionality to serve multiple regions without requiring completely separate systems for each jurisdiction.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces intermediary components that manage the complexity of multi-region operations. These intermediaries handle routing, data transmission, and coordination between data centers, abstracting the complexity from users while maintaining compliance with regional standards through centralized control mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12008283B2Printing control apparatus that communicates with cloud print service, control method, and storage medium

Publication Date: 2024.06.11 CANON KK

AI summary

A printing control apparatus includes a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a transmission destination corresponding to any one of a plurality of different regions where a predetermined cloud print service is provided, a registration request to register the printing control apparatus in the predetermined cloud print service, and a setting unit configured to set the transmission destination.