Mobility Server Administration Service with Plug-in Conflict Resolution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for managing mobility servers and their associated wireless mobile devices lack efficient administration tools, particularly in enterprise environments, where managing user attributes, services, and policies across diverse devices and networks is complex and often results in conflicts and inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
An administration service that provides a centralized management system with plug-in architecture, enabling the management of user attributes, reconciliation of conflicts, and optimization of job tasks, allowing for seamless integration of additional functionalities through polymorphic objects and reconciliation rules, thereby streamlining the administration of mobility servers and devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a centralized management system is implemented to administer mobility servers and devices, then administration efficiency and conflict resolution improve, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The administration service is divided into modular plug-in components, each handling specific administration functions. This segmentation allows the system to manage complexity through organized, independent modules while maintaining centralized control, thereby improving administration efficiency without overwhelming system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The administration service acts as an intermediary layer between mobility servers and devices, providing centralized management capabilities. This mediator approach enables efficient conflict resolution and policy enforcement while abstracting the underlying complexity from end users and simplifying the overall system interaction model.
2Adaptability or versatility
If plug-in architecture is used to integrate additional functionalities, then system versatility improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The plug-in architecture implements a universal framework where a single base administration service can support multiple functionality types through interchangeable plug-ins. This multi-functionality approach allows the system to adapt to diverse mobility devices and services without creating separate complex systems for each function, thereby improving versatility while managing complexity through a unified architecture.
3Reliability
If reconciliation rules are implemented to resolve attribute conflicts, then service reliability improves, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The reconciliation service pre-establishes conflict resolution rules and policies before conflicts occur. By having reconciliation mechanisms ready in advance with predefined logic for resolving attribute conflicts between multiple sources, the system can quickly resolve issues when they arise without extensive real-time analysis, thereby improving service reliability while minimizing processing time losses.
Data Source
AI summary
An administration server of an administration service assigns attributes to objects by a plug-in of the administration service. The plug-in implements a method of a functionality set and the method is callable by the administration service to perform the assigning. Additionally or alternatively, the administration server triggers a reconciliation event by changing the assignment of an attribute of the users that comprise objects of plug-ins; determines a scope of the users and which objects are affected by changing the assignment; and reconciles conflicting assignments. Additionally or alternatively, the administration server adds tasks by the plug-ins to a job created by the plug-ins with the tasks performing the assigning; and removes tasks from the job to optimize it.