Homogenization Server for Heterogeneous Communication Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Heterogeneous communication systems within a company complicate user access and data management, requiring laborious manual updates across different incompatible systems, especially during corporate takeovers or reorganizations, and existing solutions like translation servers or gateway/proxy layers are not fully efficient.
Innovation Solution
A homogenization server system that stores user data in a standardized format across multiple configuration servers, allowing for automatic updates and data conversion between incompatible systems, enabling easy user profile creation, management, and configuration, even for non-expert users, through a persistent database and data processing mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a translation server is used to manage user data across heterogeneous communication systems, then data conversion between incompatible systems is enabled, but the system complexity increases and manual intervention is still required for comprehensive database management
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a homogenization server as an intermediary component that sits between heterogeneous communication systems. This server maintains a homogenized database that translates and synchronizes user data across incompatible configuration servers, enabling data exchange without direct system-to-system integration complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system architecture is segmented into independent components: configuration servers for specific communication systems, a homogenization server for data standardization, and a homogenized database for unified data storage. This segmentation allows each component to operate independently while maintaining overall system compatibility
2Stability of the object's composition
If manual updates are performed across all sites when user data changes, then data consistency is maintained, but the time and labor required increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The homogenization server implements automated feedback mechanisms that monitor changes in configuration server databases and automatically propagate updates to the homogenized database and other connected systems. This eliminates manual intervention and continuously maintains data consistency across the heterogeneous environment
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary data homogenization and validation before propagation, preparing data in advance for consistent distribution across all connected communication systems, thereby reducing the time required for actual synchronization operations
3Reliability
If expert intervention is required to create user profiles in different communication systems, then data accuracy is ensured, but the ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The homogenization server enables self-service user profile creation by providing a unified interface that automatically handles data conversion and propagation to heterogeneous systems. Users can create and modify profiles without expert intervention, while the system ensures data accuracy through automated validation and consistency checks
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a system (1) for managing data relating to the users of a communication system, including a plurality of interconnected communication devices (2) and at least one configuration server (3). The system includes a homogenisation server (4) connected to each configuration server (3), the homogenisation server (4) including a storage means (41) which stores a database that includes all the data relating to the users of the devices associated with the configuration servers (3) in a homogenised format, the homogenisation server (4) including a data-processing means configured such as to update the database thereof in accordance with every modification of the database of a configuration server (3) and to update the database of at least one configuration server (3) in accordance with any modification of the database of the homogenisation server (4).