Edge Computing Network Architecture for Preemptive Data Storage

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Solution Overview

Problem

In distributed network architectures, central servers bear the majority of resource consumption, leaving remote hubs underutilized and vulnerable to communication disruptions, such as natural disasters or security breaches, which can lead to reduced or halted transaction processing.

Innovation Solution

An edge computing-based distributed network architecture that tracks client locations and monitors for potential disruptions, allowing for the temporary diversion of transaction processing and information storage to remote hubs, where client information is packaged and securely stored before predicted interruptions occur.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If all information and transaction processing resides at the central server, then centralized control is maintained, but the remote hubs become vulnerable to communication disruptions and the central server bears excessive resource consumption

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesystem reliability during communication disruptionsVSAvoidresource consumption at central server

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the centralized architecture into distributed components by enabling remote hubs to independently store and process client information locally. This segmentation allows the system to maintain functionality at remote locations even when disconnected from the central server, thereby improving reliability during communication disruptions while distributing resource consumption across multiple nodes rather than concentrating it all at the central server.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements preliminary action by pre-storing client information and transaction data at remote hubs before communication disruptions occur. This advance preparation ensures that remote hubs have the necessary data to continue processing transactions locally when disconnected from the central server, thereby maintaining system reliability without requiring excessive real-time resource consumption at the central server during disruptions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If remote hubs operate independently during disruptions, then service continuity is maintained, but the architecture complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetransaction processing continuityVSAvoiddistributed architecture complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by creating a flexible architecture that can adapt between centralized and decentralized operating modes. Remote hubs are designed to dynamically switch between operating under central server control during normal conditions and operating independently during communication disruptions. This dynamic capability enables service continuity during disruptions while avoiding the need for permanently complex distributed systems, as the complexity is only activated when needed.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Speed

If client information is stored locally at remote hubs, then access speed during disruptions improves, but data security risks increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata access speed at remote hubsVSAvoiddata security vulnerability

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements beforehand cushioning by establishing security measures and protocols in advance to protect locally stored client information at remote hubs. This includes implementing encryption, access controls, and security policies before potential security threats materialize. These pre-established protective measures enable fast local data access during disruptions while mitigating security risks through proactive security infrastructure rather than reactive measures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

Data Source

PatentUS11272010B2Edge computing-based distributed network architecture that enables preemptive client-targeted local data storage

Publication Date: 2022.03.08 BANK OF AMERICA CORP

AI summary

The disclosure relates to an edge computing-based distributed network architecture. A central server in the architecture may include a client-location monitoring module for tracking a principle location of a client, which may be co-located with a remote hub institution. The central server may also include a client information packaging module, for packaging information associated with the client into a digital package; a natural-disaster monitor module, for monitoring for future natural-disasters; and a transmission module for transmitting a packaging instruction from the natural-disaster monitor module to the client information packaging module when the natural-disaster monitor module communicates that a natural-disaster is predicted to occur within a certain threshold distance and within a certain threshold amount of time. The transmission module may also retrieve, following packaging, the package from the client information packaging module and transmit the digital package to the remote hub institution for secure, albeit typically temporary, storage thereat.