Adaptive Mesh Orchestration for Peripheral Workspace Policy Propagation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Managing and configuring peripheral devices in a collaborative workspace is challenging due to varying management providers and policies, making it difficult to efficiently propagate software/firmware updates and enforce policies across multiple user devices.

Innovation Solution

A collaborative workspace orchestrator module executes computer-readable program code to identify and create meshes within the peripheral device collaborative workspace, propagating policies and updates efficiently based on key performance indicators (KPIs) and enforcing ITDM-defined policies.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If traditional centralized management methods are used for peripheral devices in collaborative workspaces, then policy enforcement and update propagation can be maintained through central control, but system complexity increases and management efficiency decreases due to varying management providers and policies across multiple user devices

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepolicy propagation efficiencyVSAvoidmanagement system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the collaborative workspace into multiple meshes, where each mesh is a self-contained management unit with its own set of peripheral devices and information handling systems. This segmentation allows policies and updates to be propagated independently within each mesh, improving efficiency while reducing overall system complexity by localizing management scope.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a new organizational dimension by creating meshes that group devices based on collaboration contexts rather than traditional hierarchical structures. This dimensional change enables parallel policy propagation across multiple meshes simultaneously, enhancing productivity without proportionally increasing management complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Ease of operation

If adaptive meshes are created to group information handling systems and peripheral devices, then policy propagation efficiency improves through localized management, but the complexity of identifying and creating appropriate meshes increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepolicy management easeVSAvoidmesh identification difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The mesh identification and creation process is automated through algorithms that autonomously analyze device relationships, collaboration patterns, and policy requirements to form appropriate meshes. This self-service approach simplifies policy management by eliminating manual mesh configuration while the system handles the complexity of detecting optimal mesh structures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors device interactions and policy effectiveness within meshes, using this feedback to dynamically adjust mesh compositions and improve identification accuracy over time. This feedback mechanism reduces the difficulty of mesh identification by learning from operational data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If multiple meshes are used to organize devices in a collaborative workspace, then policy enforcement becomes more targeted and efficient, but the overhead of managing multiple mesh structures increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepolicy enforcement reliabilityVSAvoidmesh management overhead

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the management of multiple meshes into a unified orchestrator that coordinates policy propagation across all meshes. This consolidation reduces management overhead by providing a single point of control while maintaining the reliability benefits of targeted policy enforcement within individual meshes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The mesh management system is designed with universal components that can operate across different mesh types and sizes. This multi-functionality reduces overhead by using the same management protocols and structures for all meshes, regardless of their specific composition or purpose.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20250252060A1System and method for managing and orchestrating a collaboration peripheral device workspace with adaptive meshes

Publication Date: 2025.08.07 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

A peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator server includes a hardware processor, a memory device, and a network interface device to receive operational capabilities and settings associated with a peripheral device node operatively coupled to an anchor information handling system node, the anchor information handling system node and peripheral device forming part of a collaborative peripheral device workspace to be registered with the peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator server. The hardware processor executes a collaborative workspace orchestrator module to register the peripheral device node within the collaborative peripheral device workspace. The hardware processor executes computer code of mesh manager module to identify and create a mesh within the collaborative peripheral device workspace including the anchor information handling system node and registered peripheral device node in a mesh manifest, the mesh created based on the KPIs of the registered peripheral device and assigned a mesh ID value.