Shared Management Apparatus for Distributed Communication Terminal State Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication systems face challenges in efficiently managing and routing state information and sessions across multiple communication terminals, leading to scalability issues and suboptimal communication management.
Innovation Solution
A control system comprising multiple control apparatuses that transmit search information to identify and connect communication terminals, manage state information, and establish sessions through a shared management apparatus, enabling efficient communication terminal management and session establishment across a network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple videoconference management systems are provided to disperse load, then scalability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a shared management apparatus as an intermediary between multiple videoconference management systems and communication terminals. This mediator handles terminal management information storage and retrieval, allowing multiple management systems to operate without directly interacting with each other, thus improving scalability while managing complexity through centralized coordination
2Adaptability or versatility
If communication terminals are managed across multiple management systems, then adaptability is improved, but difficulty of detecting and measuring increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines terminal management information from multiple videoconference management systems into a unified storage location within the shared management apparatus. By merging the management information layer while maintaining separate management systems, the patent enables centralized detection and measurement of terminal states across the distributed system, reducing the difficulty of tracking terminals regardless of which management system they are currently associated with
Data Source
AI summary
A control system includes a plurality of control apparatuses each capable of controlling a first communication terminal connected to the control apparatus. Each control apparatus transmits search information including terminal identification information for identifying a second communication terminal to other control apparatuses of the plurality of control apparatuses, searches for one of the other control apparatuses that is connected to the second communication terminal based on responses that are transmitted from the other control apparatuses in response to the search information, and transmits state information indicating a state of the first communication terminal connected to the control apparatus to the searched control apparatus connected to the second communication terminal.