Fault Tracing System for Remote Home Network Maintenance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fault tracing methods for home/building networks face challenges such as increased overhead with large system logs, difficulty in systematically tracing repeated errors, and the inconvenience of requiring on-site expert visits for fault detection and diagnosis.
Innovation Solution
A fault tracing system and method that utilizes home network resource information and relationship information to detect faults, generate transactions, trace faults by configuring sub-maps, probing resources, and selecting subsequent domains based on dependency degrees, and notifying clients of diagnosis results, enabling remote maintenance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If system log or error messages are analyzed to diagnose faults, then fault detection capability is improved, but overhead drastically increases as the size of system log or messages to be analyzed increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the fault diagnosis process into distinct phases: fault detection through event reception, transaction generation, systematic tracing using resource relation maps, and result notification. This segmentation allows efficient processing by breaking down the complex analysis into manageable steps, reducing overall overhead while maintaining detection capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing resource relation maps that define relationships among home network resources before faults occur. When faults are detected, these pre-configured maps enable immediate systematic tracing without requiring extensive real-time log analysis, thereby reducing overhead while maintaining accurate fault detection.
2Measurement precision
If system log or error messages are analyzed to diagnose faults, then fault detection capability is improved, but it is difficult to systematically trace the fault when the same error is repeatedly caused by several components relating to a single fault
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing resource relation maps that define relationships among home network resources before faults occur. When faults are detected, these pre-configured maps enable immediate systematic tracing without requiring extensive real-time log analysis, thereby reducing overhead while maintaining accurate fault detection.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the system continuously monitors resource states and updates transaction traces based on probe results. This feedback loop allows the system to systematically trace faults by following the resource relation maps and adjusting the tracing path based on actual resource responses, making it easier to identify the root cause even when multiple components are involved.
3Measurement precision
If a user accurately recalls and describes the situation in which the fault has occurred, and an expert or engineer visits the home or building in person, then fault diagnosis accuracy is improved, but it causes inconvenience and delay in detection and diagnosis of the fault
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service fault diagnosis by automatically detecting faults through received events, generating transactions, tracing faults using resource relation maps, and notifying users of diagnosis results. This eliminates the need for expert visits while maintaining accurate fault detection, thereby saving time and reducing inconvenience for users.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of expert visits with an automated electronic system. The fault diagnosis server performs all necessary fault detection, analysis, and tracing operations remotely through network communications, substituting the physical presence of experts with automated computational processes that achieve the same diagnostic accuracy without the time loss associated with travel and on-site visits.
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AI summary
Provided is a fault tracing system and method for remote maintenance. The fault tracing method includes detecting faults by receiving error events or fault diagnosis request messages, generating transactions for the detected faults, tracing the faults according to the transactions, and notifying a client terminal or user of the fault diagnosis results. Accordingly, it is possible to accurately trace a fault even in a home/building network environment complicatedly consisting of various resources.