Configurable Web Server for Managed File Transfer Analytics
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Solution Overview
Problem
Information processing systems face challenges in providing real-time visibility and dynamic progress insights for file transfers, leading to difficulties in determining transfer status, estimated time, and success or failure, necessitating manual intervention.
Innovation Solution
A processing platform is configured to communicate with product sites and user devices, extracting transfer information and generating file transfer statistics, which are visualized in a portal, providing real-time and dynamic progress insights for both unidirectional and bidirectional file transfers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If automated file transfer is implemented without monitoring capabilities, then file transfer automation is improved, but visibility and control of transfer status deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the web server extracts transfer information from incoming HTTP requests and responses, generating real-time file transfer statistics that are visualized in the portal. This feedback loop provides continuous visibility into transfer status, progress, and completion without interrupting the automated transfer process.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a web server as an intermediary component between the file transfer process and the monitoring system. The web server captures transfer information from HTTP traffic, processes it into statistics, and makes it available through a portal, serving as a mediator that enables monitoring without direct intervention in the transfer itself.
2Measurement precision
If manual intervention is required to check transfer status, then transfer monitoring accuracy is improved, but operational efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service monitoring where the web server automatically extracts transfer information from HTTP traffic and generates statistics without requiring user intervention. The portal automatically displays transfer status, progress, and completion information, eliminating the need for manual checking while maintaining accurate monitoring.
Solution Approach 2:
The automated feedback mechanism continuously provides transfer status information to users through the portal, replacing manual intervention with automatic information delivery. This maintains measurement precision by continuously tracking transfer metrics while dramatically improving operational efficiency by eliminating repetitive manual checks.
3Loss of information
If real-time transfer information is provided to users, then user awareness of transfer status is improved, but system complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The web server is configured to perform multiple functions: it handles file transfer requests, extracts transfer information from HTTP traffic, generates transfer statistics, and serves as an interface to the portal. This multi-functionality reduces overall system complexity by consolidating multiple components into a single versatile element.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the file transfer handling and information extraction functions into the web server component. By combining these functions that could have been separate components into a single web server, the system reduces complexity while maintaining real-time information provision through the portal.
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AI summary
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a processing platform including a plurality of processing devices. The processing platform is configured to communicate over one or more networks with at least one product site and a plurality of user devices/systems. The processing platform is further configured, in conjunction with transfer of a first file from a particular product of the product site to a web server of the processing platform, to extract information characterizing the transfer of the first file from the particular product of the product site, to generate in an analytics processor file transfer statistics for the first file based at least in part on the extracted information, and to provide in a file transfer portal at least one visualization of at least a portion of the file transfer statistics for the first file. The file transfer portal is accessible to one or more of the user devices/systems over the one or more networks.