Multicast Data Transfer Synchronization via Consumer Requests
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current multicasting technologies face challenges in managing synchronization for multicast data requests, ensuring all consumers are ready to receive data, and maintaining a list of consumers who share data, which limits flexibility and efficiency in data transfer.
Innovation Solution
The method synchronizes multicast data transfer in a computing environment using an identification tag and individual requests from each recipient, allowing the producer to construct a list of participating consumers in real-time and send data only to those who have requested it, ensuring synchronization and maximizing flexibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional multicasting technologies are used to transfer data to multiple consumers, then data can be delivered to all consumers, but synchronization management becomes complex and efficiency decreases due to unnecessary data transfer to uninterested consumers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by having consumers send requests indicating their interest in receiving multicast data before the actual data transfer occurs. The producer collects these requests, identifies interested consumers, and then transfers data only to them. This preliminary request phase enables the system to avoid unnecessary data transfer and simplifies synchronization management by working with a confirmed list of interested consumers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamics by allowing the list of consumers to dynamically change based on their real-time interest in receiving data. Consumers can join or leave the multicast group by sending requests, and the producer adapts the data transfer process accordingly. This dynamic approach replaces static traditional multicast groups with flexible, demand-driven consumer participation.
2Loss of energy
If multicast data is sent to all possible recipients, then all consumers receive the data, but bandwidth is wasted and transfer efficiency decreases due to sending data to uninterested consumers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the extraction principle by removing uninterested consumers from the data transfer process. Instead of sending data to all possible recipients, the system extracts only the interested consumers based on their requests and limits data transfer to this filtered subset. This eliminates wasted bandwidth while maintaining efficient data transfer to actual recipients.
3Adaptability or versatility
If synchronization is enforced for all consumers in traditional multicasting, then data consistency is maintained, but flexibility decreases because the system must wait for all consumers regardless of their interest
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by having consumers send requests that provide information about their interest in receiving data. The producer uses this feedback to determine which consumers should receive the multicast data, adjusting the data transfer process accordingly. This feedback mechanism maintains synchronization reliability for interested consumers while providing system flexibility by excluding uninterested parties.
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AI summary
Embodiments for providing single-producer-multiple consumers synchronization and multicast data transfer by a processor are disclosed. Multicast data transfer is synchronized based on an identification tag and a request from each one of a plurality of recipients for the multicast data. The multicast data is transferred to each of the plurality of recipients based on the identification tag, the request from each one of the plurality of recipients, and a list of the plurality of recipients.