Data Recovery System for Infrastructure Outage Continuity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Infrastructure outages, such as power failures or ransomware attacks, render data inaccessible, disrupting critical services like healthcare by preventing access to patient records and schedules, which can negatively impact patient care and treatment.
Innovation Solution
A computer system analyzes data records to identify entities needing services within a specific time period, generates data resources relevant to these entities, and stores them in a recovery repository, allowing transformation into printable forms during outages, enabling providers to transition to a paper-based system and ensuring continuity of service.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If data records are stored in a centralized database system, then data access is efficient and streamlined, but the system becomes vulnerable to infrastructure outages that render data inaccessible
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the centralized database into distributed data replicas stored across multiple geographic locations and devices. Each location holds a portion of the data, so when one location experiences an infrastructure outage, other locations remain accessible, thereby maintaining data reliability while reducing vulnerability to single-point failures.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary data replication and caching actions before outages occur. Data is proactively copied to edge devices and alternative locations in advance, ensuring that when an infrastructure outage happens, the data is already available in accessible locations without requiring real-time recovery operations.
2Reliability
If complete data records are backed up during outages, then data recovery capability is maximized, but backup size and storage requirements become unmanageable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and stores only the critical data elements needed for service continuity during outages, rather than backing up complete data records. By identifying and isolating the essential data subset required for operational recovery, the system achieves adequate recovery capability while keeping backup volumes manageable.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies partial backup action by storing sufficient data to handle typical outage scenarios without over-backing up all possible data. The system captures the necessary portion of data for recovery purposes, avoiding the excess storage requirements of complete system backups while maintaining adequate recovery capability for common failure modes.
3Productivity
If data is made accessible during outages through alternative storage, then service continuity is improved, but data security and privacy protection become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary security measures by encrypting data and establishing access control policies before data replication occurs. Security protocols, authentication mechanisms, and authorization rules are pre-configured on edge devices and alternative storage locations, enabling secure data access during outages without requiring complex real-time security management.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements self-service security mechanisms where edge devices and distributed storage locations autonomously enforce access controls and security policies without requiring centralized security management during outages. Each distributed node independently validates access requests and enforces security rules, simplifying overall security management while maintaining service continuity.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer system provides access to data during an outage. A plurality of data records are analyzed to identify entities whose data records indicate that a service is within an upcoming time period. A data resource is generated for each identified entity and the data resources for the identified entities are stored within a repository, wherein each data resource includes data obtained from a data record of a corresponding identified entity that is relevant to the service. The data resource of an identified entity is accessed with a corresponding recovery key during the outage and transform the data resource into one or more printable forms. The one or more printable forms are transmitted to one or more providers of the service. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for providing access to data during an outage in substantially the same manner described above.