Message Delay Offsets for Fair Arrival Timing Across Networks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Communication networks face issues with varying network properties and geographic origins causing disparities in message transmission speeds, where messages from different geographical locations arrive at a destination at different times.
Innovation Solution
A message delay system that applies a common delay time and a participant-specific offset based on geographical origin to ensure messages from various locations arrive at a destination simultaneously, using software and hardware delay mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If messages are transmitted from different geographical origins through communication networks, then communication coverage and connectivity are improved, but message arrival time disparity increases due to varying network properties and geographic distances
Solution Approach 1:
The system calculates the propagation time from each participant's geographical origin to the destination before message transmission, and applies a preliminary delay offset to messages from participants with shorter propagation times. This preliminary action ensures that all messages arrive at the destination simultaneously, eliminating arrival time disparity while maintaining broad communication coverage
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the delay parameter for each participant based on their geographical location and network propagation characteristics. By changing the delay parameter individually for each participant rather than using a fixed delay, the system compensates for varying network properties and geographic distances, ensuring equitable message arrival times across different locations
2Device complexity
If a common delay time is applied to all participants, then implementation simplicity is improved, but fairness among participants from different geographical locations deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system assigns different delay offsets to different participants based on their specific geographical origins and network propagation characteristics. Instead of applying a uniform delay, each participant receives a locally optimized delay value that accounts for their specific location, thereby achieving transmission fairness while maintaining relatively simple system implementation through automated calculation
3Manufacturing precision
If delay offsets based on geographical origin are applied, then message arrival simultaneity is improved, but system complexity increases due to need for geographical and network property analysis
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically determines each participant's geographical origin and calculates their specific delay offset without requiring manual configuration or complex external analysis. The system self-services by autonomously gathering necessary information and computing appropriate delay values, thereby achieving precise message arrival simultaneity while keeping the system relatively simple through automation
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AI summary
Systems and methods for regulating electronic messages transmissions. A message delay system is disposed between one or more first entities and a second entity within at least one network. Electronic messages are received from among at least one the first entities and the second entity at one or more message arrival times. A message delay component applies a delay to each received electronic message, based on a predefined delay time common to all of the first entities and a first entity delay offset associated with a first entity that is associated with the received message. The first entity delay offset is based on a geographical origin of the first entity relative to a geographical origin of the second entity. Each delayed message is transmitted to a designated recipient via the network, where the designated recipient is among the second entity and the first entities.