DICOS Compliance Validation System for Security Imaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Ensuring accurate configuration of security equipment and electronic files to comply with the Digital Imaging and Communications in Security (DICOS) standard is challenging, often leading to communication failures and costly replacements or compliance adjustments after equipment is installed.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for DICOS compliance validation using a processor to perform tests on security equipment or files, simulating DICOS messages, logging errors, and accessing DICOMDIR files to confirm compliance with the standard, including service class provider and user tests for MWL, C-Store, C-Find, and C-Move functionalities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If equipment is configured without pre-validation, then installation speed is improved, but compliance reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements pre-installation validation by executing compliance tests before equipment installation. The system automatically sends test messages to the equipment, validates DICOS protocol compliance, and generates compliance reports in advance, ensuring the equipment meets standard requirements before being deployed to the operational environment.
2Device complexity
If compliance testing is performed after installation, then device complexity is reduced, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs all compliance validation activities before installation by automatically sending DICOS test messages to the equipment and analyzing responses in advance. This preliminary testing eliminates the need for complex post-installation debugging and ensures issues are identified and resolved before deployment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements automated feedback mechanisms where the system sends test messages to equipment, receives responses, analyzes compliance status, and generates detailed reports. This automated feedback loop provides immediate validation results without requiring manual intervention or complex testing procedures.
3Reliability
If pre-installation validation is implemented, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a validation server as an intermediary component that manages all compliance testing activities. This server automatically sends DICOS test messages to equipment, receives responses, analyzes protocol compliance, and generates reports. By centralizing validation functions in this intermediary system, the complexity of ensuring reliable communication is managed systematically without overwhelming individual equipment or requiring complex validation logic throughout the entire system.
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AI summary
A system and method for digital imaging and communications in security (DICOS) standard compliance validation. The system and method may validate both communication messages and files for compliance with the DICOS standard. In some embodiments, the system includes a processor for communicating with a test subject and a memory having program instructions stored thereon for performing a compliance test of the test subject to determine if the test subject is complaint with the DICOS standard. Execution of the instructions by the processor causes the processor to carry out the steps of: confirming that a transmitted DICOS message, e.g., a response or request, from the test subject is compliant with the DICOS standard; logging any errors in the transmitted DICOS message from the test subject in a validation report; and transmitting a simulated DICOS message, e.g., a response or request, to the test subject. In some embodiments, the steps further include, in response to the transmitted DICOS message, accessing a DICOMDIR file stored in the memory. The DICOMDIR file may be configured as a directory for DICOM file sets stored the memory. Transmitting the simulated DICOS message to the test subject may be performed in response to accessing the DICOMDIR file stored in the memory. Also, a DICOM file may be stored or retrieved from memory in response to accessing the DICOMDIR file stored in the memory.