Central Console Federating Legacy Remote Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing administration consoles require administrators to switch between multiple consoles to manage different resources, leading to inefficiencies and the need for existing administrative functions to be rewritten to adhere to a central console's programming model, which is impractical and time-consuming.
Innovation Solution
The development of techniques that allow content from legacy and remote consoles to be federated into a central console, enabling administrators to access and manage remote console functionality directly from a single, integrated network console without requiring changes to existing programming models, using methods such as determining invocable software entities and functions, presenting them in a unified view, and aggregating results for rendering.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If administrators use multiple independent consoles to manage different resources, then each console can provide specialized administrative functions, but administrators must switch between consoles which reduces efficiency and increases operational complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple independent console applications into a single unified console that provides access to administrative functions for multiple resources. The system aggregates content from different consoles and presents them in a unified interface, allowing administrators to manage diverse resources without switching between separate applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified console is designed to perform multiple administrative functions across different resource types through a single interface. It provides universal access to various administrative tasks that were previously distributed across multiple specialized consoles, making the system both simpler to operate and more versatile.
2Adaptability or versatility
If existing administrative functions are rewritten to adhere to a central console's programming model, then integration into a unified console becomes possible, but the rewriting process is impractical and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary layer that sits between the existing administrative functions and the unified console interface. This intermediary aggregates content from various sources and translates it into the unified console's presentation format without requiring changes to the underlying administrative functions, thus maintaining compatibility while achieving integration.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of rewriting existing administrative functions, the system creates virtual copies or representations of their functionality within the unified console framework. The aggregation mechanism copies the essential interface and functionality of multiple consoles into a single unified interface, allowing access to original functions without modification.
3Ease of operation
If a single unified console aggregates content from multiple sources, then administrators gain a centralized access point, but the system must handle heterogeneous execution contexts and diverse programming models
Solution Approach 1:
The unified console system is segmented into distinct functional layers: content aggregation layer, translation/adaptation layer, and presentation layer. Each layer handles specific aspects of the complexity, allowing the system to manage heterogeneous sources while maintaining a simple unified interface. The aggregation layer collects content, the adaptation layer handles context translation, and the presentation layer provides consistent output.
Data Source
AI summary
Content from multiple remote/legacy consoles is aggregated within a central console to provide a single point-of-access for managing remote resources. Preferred embodiments deploy the central console as a network-accessible application, and this console application communicates with remotely-located console applications (and/or other locally-executing functions) that carry out tasks selected from the central console by an administrator and then return content generated by those tasks for rendering in the central console. The run-time environment used at the central console is not required to match the run-time environment of the remote/legacy consoles.