Communications Manager Segments User Requests

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems face challenges in managing multiple user requests for data from the same system of interest without interfering with each other, leading to potential conflicts and unexpected information being returned.

Innovation Solution

A computer-based communications management system that stores information about systems of interest, determines user requests, creates messaging profiles, and executes conflict resolution processes to ensure that all requested information is retrieved without missing or additional data, while accommodating functional differences and optimizing messaging profiles for multiple users.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If multiple users request data from the same system of interest, then information availability increases, but conflicts and interference between users occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation availabilityVSAvoiddata request integrity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments user requests into individual messaging profiles, each with unique parameters (frequency, content, format). The communications manager processes each profile separately, preventing user requests from interfering with each other while ensuring all requested information is retrieved.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The communications manager acts as an intermediary between multiple users and the system of interest. It receives requests from multiple users, creates appropriate messaging profiles, transmits messages to the system of interest, and filters/ delivers information to the correct users, preventing direct conflicts between users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If messaging frequency increases to meet all user requests, then information completeness improves, but system bandwidth and processing load increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidmessaging profile complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Each user receives customized messaging profiles with specific parameters (frequency, content, format) tailored to their individual needs. The system transmits only the necessary information to each user at the appropriate frequency, avoiding unnecessary bandwidth consumption while ensuring complete information delivery.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system accommodates all user request formats, then user needs are met, but data filtering and processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser request accommodationVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes message parameters (frequency, content, format) based on individual user profiles. The communications manager modifies messaging parameters dynamically to match user requirements, accommodating diverse user needs through parameter adjustment rather than complex processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS9406236B1Multi-user disparate system communications manager
Publication Date: 2016.08.02 THE BOEING CO
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AI summary

A computer-based communications management system for managing multiple requests made by different users, in abstract or generalized formats, for data to be provided by various systems of interest. This computerized system is programmed to perform operations which ensure that requests from different users do not interfere with each other and that all information requested from the systems of interest is retrieved without missing or additional (i.e., not requested) information. Additionally, the system accommodates the functional differences between various systems of interest, and also uses relevant related data from other systems of interest to achieve greater data usefulness.