Central Information Broker for Software Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Complex software systems with numerous dependencies and disparate data storage formats and access mechanisms make it difficult to manage and consolidate software management information across multiple applications and components.
Innovation Solution
A central information broker is introduced to store and manage software management information from various information providers, providing a unified interface for obtaining and delivering this information to consumers, thereby simplifying data access and reducing the need for multiple adapters and interfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If data is stored in different locations and formats across multiple software applications, then each application can maintain its own data structure and access methods, but the system complexity increases and data management becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an information broker as an intermediary component that mediates between information providers (software applications) and information consumers. The broker collects, standardizes, and manages data from multiple sources, providing a unified access point that reduces system complexity while maintaining data storage flexibility across applications.
2Ease of manufacture
If each software application uses different interfaces to transfer data, then applications can be independently designed and implemented, but the architecture becomes complex and difficult to manage
Solution Approach 1:
The information broker provides a universal interface that can handle data transfer between any software applications regardless of their individual data formats or access methods. This multi-functional broker consolidates multiple specialized interfaces into a single standardized access point, maintaining application independence while reducing architectural complexity.
3Reliability
If software management information is distributed across multiple locations, then data can be stored close to its source, but retrieving and consolidating information becomes time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The information broker performs preliminary actions by proactively collecting and caching software management information from multiple information providers in advance. This allows the broker to quickly retrieve and provide consolidated information to consumers without requiring real-time queries to multiple sources, reducing retrieval time while maintaining data availability.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems consistent with embodiments of the present invention may provide an interface configured to obtain software management information from software applications under management, and provide a central information broker having the software management information.