Dynamic Processing Time Limit for Data Server Power Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
In communication networks, setting a fixed processing time limit for data servers can lead to unnecessary high-speed processing, resulting in excessive power consumption, as it does not align with the varying timeout periods of client entities, causing the server to process queries quickly even when longer response times are sufficient.
Innovation Solution
The mediator uses mapping data to determine and specify a processing time limit for each client entity based on its identity or type, aligning it with the client's configured timeout period, accounting for signaling propagation and processing time, to optimize data server processing power.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a fixed processing time limit is set for data server queries, then the server can process queries quickly to meet the shortest timeout requirements, but this causes unnecessary high-speed processing and excessive power consumption when longer response times would be sufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the processing time limit adjustable rather than fixed. The mediator dynamically determines appropriate processing time limits based on each client entity's timeout period, allowing the system to adapt the query processing time to match actual client requirements. This resolves the contradiction by enabling the server to process queries at appropriate speeds - quickly when needed but slower when sufficient - thereby meeting timeout requirements while reducing unnecessary power consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of processing time limit from a fixed value to a variable that is adjusted based on client timeout periods. By modifying this parameter dynamically according to different clients' needs, the system achieves both reliability (meeting each client's timeout) and energy efficiency (avoiding excessive processing speed when not needed).
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AI summary
A method and system for controlling processing by a data server. An example method includes a computing system receiving from a client entity a request for information, and, responsive to receiving from the client entity the request, the computing system (i) determining, based on the client entity from which the computing system received the request, a processing time limit for the data server to apply in processing a query for the information and (ii) generating and sending to the data server the query, including in the query an indication of the determined processing time limit. The data server could thus receive and process the query and impose the specified processing time limit on the processing of the received query.