Terminal Apparatus Distributed Processing Error Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

In distributed processing systems, particularly in cloud environments, there is a need to prevent errors in data transmission from cloud servers to terminal apparatuses, ensuring that the transmission destination is correctly identified to avoid erroneous data delivery.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus is configured to provide execution instructions and apparatus identification information to cloud servers, acquiring and verifying identification information to ensure correct data transmission, and in case of failures, rerouting data through other cloud servers to maintain processing continuity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If distributed processing is performed using multiple cloud servers without association with the terminal apparatus, then processing scalability is improved, but data transmission errors increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing scalabilityVSAvoiddata transmission accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The terminal apparatus receives feedback information (apparatus identification information) from each cloud server during data transmission and verifies whether the received information matches the expected transmission destination. This feedback mechanism enables the terminal to detect and suppress erroneous transmissions while maintaining distributed processing scalability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Device complexity

If a server for managing distributed processing is not used, then system complexity is reduced, but transmission error detection capability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem complexityVSAvoidtransmission error detection
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The terminal apparatus performs self-verification of transmission accuracy by independently checking the apparatus identification information received from cloud servers against its own identification information. This self-service approach eliminates the need for a separate management server while enabling the terminal to detect transmission errors autonomously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If data transmission verification is performed at the terminal apparatus, then transmission accuracy is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransmission accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The terminal apparatus performs verification of apparatus identification information immediately upon receiving data from cloud servers, before processing the actual data payload. This preliminary verification action quickly identifies transmission errors without delaying the overall processing timeline significantly, as the verification operates in parallel with data reception.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20230291791A1Information processing apparatus, distributed processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing information processing program, and information processing method
Publication Date: 2023.09.14 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP
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AI summary

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to provide an execution instruction of processing and apparatus identification information of the information processing apparatus to a cloud server that executes distributed processing, acquire identification information of the processing and the apparatus identification information from each of the cloud servers, and in a case where the acquired apparatus identification information is the apparatus identification information of the information processing apparatus, acquire a processing result of the processing identified by the identification information of the processing acquired together with the apparatus identification information from the cloud server that is a transmission source of the apparatus identification information.