Status Response Message Management Information Attachment
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Solution Overview
Problem
In distributed computing systems, the continuous exchange of status inquiry and status response messages consumes significant bandwidth, and there is a need to efficiently transmit management information without increasing this bandwidth usage.
Innovation Solution
Attaching management information to status response messages, which are already transmitted, allowing intermediaries to cache, forward, and manage this information, ensuring it is sent without additional bandwidth consumption by keeping the combined message size within network limits.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If status inquiry and status response messages are continuously transmitted between machines, then machine availability can be monitored, but bandwidth consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines management information exchange with status response messages by attaching management information to the existing status response message structure. This merging allows management applications to exchange information without requiring separate dedicated communication channels, thereby utilizing the already-allocation bandwidth for status monitoring purposes and avoiding additional bandwidth consumption.
2Loss of information
If management information is exchanged separately via management messages, then complete management data can be transmitted, but total bandwidth usage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The status response message is designed to serve multiple functions simultaneously: it confirms machine/service availability and carries management information. By making the status response message universal, the system eliminates the need for separate management message transmissions, as the same message structure accomplishes both status confirmation and information exchange tasks.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the functionality of status response messages with management information exchange by attaching management information to the status response message. This combination allows the system to transmit both availability confirmation and management data through a single message, reducing total bandwidth consumption compared to separate transmissions.
3Loss of energy
If management information is attached to status response messages, then bandwidth efficiency improves, but message size increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements partial action by allowing management information to be attached to status response messages only when the combined size remains within predefined network limits. When the message would exceed size thresholds, the system selectively omits or truncates management information attachment, ensuring bandwidth efficiency is improved without excessively increasing message size beyond acceptable network constraints.
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AI summary
A status inquiry message is received at a first machine, wherein the status inquiry message is a network protocol layer request. A status response message is generated at the first machine, the status response message responsive to the network protocol layer request. Management information is attached to the status response message, the management information including application layer information about one or more of the first machine and a service operating on the first machine. The status response message is transmitted to the second machine.