Protocol Bridging Agents for Heterogeneous Communication Services
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication systems struggle to seamlessly bridge communications between services using different protocols, limiting real-time communication across heterogeneous software infrastructures and requiring users to change their protocols or client software.
Innovation Solution
A system that deploys monitoring and relay agents to collect, translate, and relay events between communication services, allowing users to communicate across dissimilar protocols without modifying their software, using a server-based infrastructure that is transparent to individual users.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a bridge infrastructure is implemented to connect communication services using different protocols, then communication compatibility across heterogeneous systems is improved, but system complexity increases due to the need for protocol translation and multiple relay agents
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces relay agents as intermediary components that sit between communication services using different protocols. These relay agents translate messages from one protocol to another, enabling compatibility without requiring changes to the original communication services. The relay agent receives a first message from a first communication service, translates it to a second protocol, and sends it to a second communication service, thereby mediating the communication between heterogeneous systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If protocol translation is implemented to enable communication between dissimilar services, then communication versatility is improved, but processing time increases due to translation overhead
Solution Approach 1:
The relay agent is pre-configured with knowledge of multiple communication protocols and their structures. This preliminary preparation allows the agent to perform protocol translation efficiently when messages need to be exchanged between services using different protocols, reducing the processing time required during actual communication operations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If relay agents are deployed to translate messages between different protocols, then communication interoperability is improved, but resource consumption increases due to additional translation processing
Solution Approach 1:
The relay agent autonomously manages the protocol translation process without requiring external intervention or additional resources from the communication services themselves. It independently receives messages, determines the required translation, performs the protocol conversion using its internal capabilities, and forwards the translated message, thereby serving itself in the translation function.
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AI summary
According to particular embodiments, a system for bridging communications includes agent servers that deploy monitoring agents into source communication services where the monitoring agents collect events in a native communication protocol of the source communication service. The agent servers select events for relaying and translate those events into a native communication protocol of the destination communication service. In addition, the agent servers deploy relay agents into destination communication services to relay the translated events to the destination communication service.