Vaulting Manager System for Automated Media Policy Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current media vaulting management software lacks the capability to handle complex vaulting policies and does not provide automated confirmation of media delivery to intended destinations, leading to a time-intensive and manual process.
Innovation Solution
A vaulting manager system that creates and manages multiple vaulting policies with cycles specifying media movement to destinations and execution times, allowing hierarchical policies and automated notification and confirmation of media movements through integration with backup applications and offsite vendors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual tracking and notification methods are used for media vaulting, then administrators can maintain control over media locations, but the process becomes very time-intensive and manual
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automated self-service through the vaulting manager that automatically tracks media locations, generates notifications to offsite vendors, and manages vaulting policies without requiring manual administrator intervention for each media movement event
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical tracking processes with an automated software-based vaulting manager that uses electronic notifications and automated policy enforcement to track and manage media vaulting operations
2Ease of operation
If basic vaulting policies are implemented in current software, then simple media movements can be managed, but complex media vaulting schemes with multiple media movements cannot be fulfilled
Solution Approach 1:
The vaulting manager implements dynamic policy evaluation that automatically determines the most specific applicable policy for each media item by evaluating multiple policies in a defined order, allowing the system to adapt to complex vaulting scenarios while maintaining ease of policy configuration
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments vaulting policies into hierarchical levels (site-level, media pool-level, media-level) that can be independently configured and combined, enabling complex vaulting schemes to be built from simpler modular policy components
3Reliability
If administrators manually notify offsite vendors and incorporate media information, then vendor communication can be maintained, but the overall management process becomes very time-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual vendor notification processes with automated electronic notifications generated by the vaulting manager, which automatically communicates media movement events and requirements to offsite vendors through integrated communication interfaces
Solution Approach 2:
The vaulting manager acts as an intermediary between the backup system and offsite vendors, automatically translating internal media vaulting events into vendor-specific notification formats and managing the communication workflow without requiring direct administrator involvement
Data Source
AI summary
A method is disclosed that comprises creating a plurality of vaulting policies, each vaulting policy having one or more cycles specifying a movement of media to a destination location and a time to execute the cycle. The method further comprises associating a first vaulting policy of the plurality to a first set of media and associating a second vaulting policy of the plurality to a second set of media, the second set of media comprising a subset of the first set of media, the second vaulting policy superseding the first vaulting policy for the media contained in the subset.