Unified Messaging Server Data Segmentation for Limited Bandwidth

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Solution Overview

Problem

Communication networks with Unified Messaging Service (UMS) systems face challenges in providing user access to message data across multiple local environments with limited data transmission capacity, while maintaining synchronization between partial networks without data management conflicts.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a data storage system with separate partial storage areas for user data and control data, using synchronization modules to selectively forward user data across server units, and employing filter modules to differentiate between user and control data, ensuring quick and reliable access to user-specific message data across the network.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If message data is stored centrally on a single server unit, then user access to message data is simplified and uniform, but the system cannot support multiple independent local environments with limited data transmission capacity

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser access to message dataVSAvoidsupport for multiple local environments

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the communication network into multiple independent local environments, each with its own server unit and data storage area. This segmentation allows each local environment to operate independently while maintaining uniform user access to message data across all locations, resolving the contradiction between centralized simplicity and distributed adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If all message data is synchronized across all server units in the network, then user access from any terminal is enabled, but data transmission capacity is exceeded and network performance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess from any terminalVSAvoiddata transmission capacity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements local quality by storing message data primarily in the local data storage area of each server unit, with selective synchronization to other server units based on user access patterns and data importance. This approach enables uniform user access while minimizing unnecessary data transmission and preserving network performance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple partial networks are combined into a unified system, then organizational flexibility is improved, but synchronization between partial networks becomes complex and error-prone

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveorganizational flexibilityVSAvoidsynchronization between partial networks

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent maintains clear segmentation between partial networks while implementing a standardized synchronization protocol that allows selective data exchange. Each server unit independently manages its local data storage area and synchronizes only when necessary, reducing synchronization complexity while preserving organizational flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a standardized interface and protocol as an intermediary between partial networks, enabling seamless data synchronization without direct complex interactions between individual server units. This mediator layer simplifies the synchronization process while maintaining organizational flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Reliability

If data is stored distributed across multiple server units, then system reliability and access availability are improved, but data management complexity and synchronization overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess availabilityVSAvoiddata management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments data storage across multiple server units with each unit maintaining a complete or selective copy of message data in its local data storage area. This segmentation provides redundancy and improved access availability while keeping each server unit's data management relatively simple through standardized protocols.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS8914547B2Communication network and method for storing message data in a communication network

Publication Date: 2014.12.16 SIGNAL POINT NETWORKS LLC

AI summary

A communication network having a number of server units connected with each other on the data side, to each of which a number of terminals is connected in a local environment, each server unit including a data storage area for saving message data, shall enable user access to the user-specifically saved message data from each of the local environments in a reliable and quick manner, even in case of limited data transmission capacity between the individual server units, maintaining at the same time an appropriate flow synchronization between the partial networks. For this purpose, each data storage area comprises, according to the invention, a first partial storage area for saving user data and a second partial storage area for saving control data. During operation, the user data are stored on all server units in a synchronized manner.