Network Resource Duplicate Suppression Protocol
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Solution Overview
Problem
Computer networks face challenges in efficiently identifying and displaying available resources due to duplication, as systems supporting multiple protocols respond multiple times, leading to user confusion and unnecessary complexity.
Innovation Solution
A duplicate suppression protocol is introduced, where a requesting computer system broadcasts a duplicate suppression request, and responding nodes provide identifiers for various protocols, allowing the system to eliminate duplicates and present a unified list of resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a computer system supports multiple network protocols and responds to resource requests from multiple protocols, then the system achieves greater protocol compatibility and accessibility, but duplicate resource entries appear in the network resource list causing user confusion
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary duplicate suppression by having the requesting entity collect identifier information from all responding resources before finalizing the resource list. This preliminary identification and marking of duplicates prevents them from appearing in the final unified resource list, resolving the contradiction between maintaining protocol compatibility and avoiding resource list complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary duplicate suppression mechanism that acts between the resource responding entities and the final resource list. The requesting entity serves as an intermediary that collects identifier information, compares responses, identifies duplicates, and suppresses them before presenting the unified resource list to the user, thus resolving the contradiction
2Loss of information
If a requesting entity queries for network resources using multiple protocols, then comprehensive resource discovery is achieved, but the entity receives duplicate resource information increasing processing overhead
Solution Approach 1:
The requesting entity performs preliminary collection of identifier information from all protocol responses before processing the final resource list. This preliminary action allows the system to identify and suppress duplicates efficiently, ensuring complete resource discovery while minimizing processing time by avoiding redundant processing of duplicate entries
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where the requesting entity uses the collected identifier information to recognize and suppress duplicate resource responses. This feedback loop ensures that comprehensive resource discovery is achieved while processing time is optimized by eliminating redundant duplicate processing
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AI summary
A duplicate suppression protocol is introduced in order to suppress duplicate entries from appearing in a list of available network resources. With the duplicate suppression protocol of the present invention, a computer that wishes to query for network resources also asks for duplicate suppression information from the responding network resources. The duplicate suppression information for a particular network resource specifies identifiers associated with that network resource for various protocols. Thus, if a particular network resource responds to more than one network resource request from a single requesting entity, that requesting entity will be able to locate duplicate network resource information. Thus, a single unified list of network resources available for various different protocols may be presented with all duplicate network resources removed.