Image Transfer History for Consistent Retransmission Sorting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image management systems fail to ensure consistent sorting conditions during retransmission after transfer failures due to network errors or authentication issues, leading to potential changes or deletions of sorting criteria.
Innovation Solution
An image management server with units for receiving, sorting, transferring, and managing transfer history, allowing retransmission using the original sorting condition, and optionally prompting users to confirm or select new conditions if changes occur.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the system allows users to manually retransmit images after transfer failure, then users can retry the transfer, but the sorting condition may be changed or deleted during the period from failure to retransmission, causing the sorting condition to fail to be determined uniquely
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by determining and storing the transfer destination folder before the actual transfer occurs. When a transfer fails, the system can retrieve this pre-determined destination information to perform retransmission without requiring the sorting condition to still exist in its original form. This resolves the contradiction by ensuring the transfer destination is established in advance, making the retransmission process reliable even if sorting conditions change.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a copy or record of the transfer destination information associated with the image data. Instead of relying on the original sorting condition to remain unchanged, the system preserves the destination folder information separately, allowing retransmission to use this copied destination information even if the original sorting condition has been modified or deleted.
2Reliability
If the system automatically determines storage destination using machine learning, then the storage destination is uniquely determined, but the system complexity increases due to implementing machine learning algorithms
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary mechanism - a transfer destination management component that mediates between the sorting condition and the actual transfer operation. This intermediary stores and manages the correspondence between image data and transfer destination folders, simplifying the overall system architecture while ensuring reliable destination determination without requiring complex machine learning algorithms.
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AI summary
An image management server includes an image receiving unit configured to receive an image, a sorting condition setting unit configured to set a sorting condition for the image, a transfer unit configured to transfer the image to an external transfer destination folder associated with the sorting condition, and a retransmission accepting unit configured to accept a retransmission request for the image in a case where transfer by the transfer unit fails. In response to either of a change of the sorting condition or the name of the sorting condition and deletion of the sorting condition during a period from the failed transfer to acceptance of the retransmission request, the transfer unit transfers the image to the external transfer destination folder associated with the sorting condition used in the failed transfer.