Communication Network Conflict Manager Using Segmented Rule Packets

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Solution Overview

Problem

Communications networks face conflicts during the parallel or successive execution of multiple services, leading to malfunctions or interruptions, and existing conflict managers are cumbersome to modify and require extensive rules, which are difficult to implement across different service providers.

Innovation Solution

A communications network with a conflict manager that includes a set of packets containing rules for sorting protocol messages from multiple service managers, with selection and sorting mechanisms based on an indicator of the services accessible by a terminal, facilitating conflict resolution with a limited number of rules.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a conflict manager groups together all rules for resolving conflicts between services, then conflict resolution capability is improved, but device complexity and difficulty of modification increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconflict resolution capabilityVSAvoidcomplexity of conflict manager

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The conflict manager is segmented into multiple packets, each containing a specific subset of conflict resolution rules. This segmentation allows the system to manage conflicts by selecting and applying only the relevant packet containing the needed rules, rather than processing all possible rules simultaneously, thus reducing complexity while maintaining comprehensive conflict resolution capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The conflict manager dynamically selects which packet to apply based on the indicator of services accessible by the terminal. This dynamic selection mechanism allows the system to adapt to different service combinations and activate only the necessary conflict resolution rules, reducing the effective complexity for each specific scenario while maintaining overall system capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Reliability

If a conflict manager includes extensive rules for all service combinations, then conflict resolution completeness is improved, but ease of operation and implementation difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconflict resolution completenessVSAvoidease of implementation

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The extensive conflict resolution rules are segmented into multiple packets, each handling specific service combinations. This segmentation makes implementation easier by allowing operators to select and apply only the relevant packet for their specific service scenario, rather than implementing all possible rules, thus maintaining completeness while improving ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Each packet contains conflict resolution rules tailored to specific local conditions (service combinations). This local quality approach allows the system to provide complete conflict resolution for each specific scenario while making the overall system easier to implement by focusing only on the relevant local rules needed for each terminal's accessible services.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Adaptability or versatility

If existing conflict managers are modified to accommodate new services, then service adaptability is improved, but device complexity and modification difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveservice adaptabilityVSAvoidmodification difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The conflict manager is structured as multiple independent packets that can be added or modified without affecting other packets. When a new service is introduced, only the specific packet(s) relevant to that service need to be created or modified, leaving other packets unchanged. This segmentation greatly simplifies modification difficulty while maintaining service adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The packet-based structure provides universality, where the same packet framework can accommodate multiple different services by simply changing which packet is selected or adding new packets. This multi-functional design allows the system to adapt to new services without modifying the fundamental structure, reducing modification difficulty while improving service adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS8296431B2Communication network including means for managing conflicts during the execution of several communication services

Publication Date: 2012.10.23 ORANGE SA

AI summary

A communications network including: n service managers (AS1, AS2, . . . , ASn), each adapted to execute an associated service; routing means (MR) adapted to receive protocol messages sent by a service manager, and to forward them to a terminal. The network also includes a conflict manager including: a set of packets, each packet containing rules for sorting protocol messages liable to be sent by at least two service managers; selection means for selecting a packet as a function of an indicator of the services that the terminal can access; sorting means for sorting protocol messages sent by at least two service managers upon execution of the associated services as a function of the content of a selected packet and forwarding the sorted protocol messages to the routing means (MR). Also disclosed are a conflict management method and a method of adding an additional service to a communications network.