Certified Building Block Components for Software Integration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Large software projects face inefficiencies due to dependencies between components, making it challenging to manage and merge changes across multiple developers, leading to potential breakages and inefficiencies in version control.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for certifying building block components that operate independently, allowing them to be configured and expanded to communicate effectively within a device application, using a run engine that facilitates communication between components, and providing a library for developers to utilize these certified components.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If strict version control is employed to segregate development branches, then code breakage is prevented, but development efficiency decreases and merging becomes complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecode stabilityVSAvoiddevelopment efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the software into independent building block components with well-defined interfaces. Each component can be developed, tested, and versioned separately, eliminating the need for strict branch segregation while maintaining code stability. The run engine orchestrates these segmented components without requiring complex merge operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses certification parameters to verify component compatibility and interface adherence. By changing the approach from version control parameters (branches, commits) to component certification parameters (interface contracts, dependency declarations), the system achieves both reliability and productivity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Device complexity

If components are made independent and modular, then integration complexity is reduced, but component versatility and data type flexibility are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveintegration complexityVSAvoiddata type flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The run engine provides universal functionality by orchestrating diverse building block components through a standardized interface framework. This universal orchestration capability allows components to maintain independence while supporting versatile data types and communication protocols through the standardized interface contract system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements dynamic interface contracts that can be extended and modified without changing the core component structure. Data type flexibility is achieved through dynamic registration and validation mechanisms that allow new data types to be added while maintaining the modular architecture and low integration complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Productivity

If developers work on different portions of the project simultaneously, then productivity increases, but dependency conflicts and integration issues arise

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveparallel development speedVSAvoidintegration reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

Components undergo preliminary certification before integration, where their interfaces, dependencies, and contracts are validated in advance. This preliminary action ensures that when developers work in parallel on different components, the integration reliability is maintained because each component has already been verified to work correctly with the run engine and other components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

4Reliability

If building block components are certified and standardized, then integration reliability is improved, but the initial development time and effort increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveintegration reliabilityVSAvoidcertification overhead

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The certification process is designed to be self-service and automated, where components declare their own interfaces and dependencies, and the system automatically verifies compliance. This reduces the manual certification overhead while maintaining high integration reliability, as the certification becomes an automated part of the development workflow rather than a separate time-consuming process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12182538B2Systems and methods for certifying features for generating a device application

Publication Date: 2024.12.31 ENGINEER AI CORP

AI summary

A method includes providing one or more application developers with a selection of a multitude of features to add to the device application, the selection includes a computer readable specification where each of the multitude of features are implemented by one or more building block components, that include one or more functions, which are automatically certified via a certification process upon submission by a building block developer and each of the one or more building block components are configured to be operated by a run engine that facilitates communication between building block components of the device application. The method includes verifying that the selection of the multitude of features are performed by a selection of the one or more building block components and generating the device application. The device application includes the selection of the one or more building block components.