Chipset Update Provisioning Across Mixed CPU Families
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems lack a seamless method for updating chipsets across different CPU families in enterprise networks, leading to operational failures and security vulnerabilities due to incompatible updates and configuration mismatches.
Innovation Solution
A hardware abstraction provisioning protocol that intelligently decouples CPU-to-chipset derivation code, providing trust-signature verified updates and a CPU-to-chipset bridge protocol for seamless updates across various silicon vendors, with a CPU reset-based fallback method for recovery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If an OEM issues an update for the code associated with one version of the processors, then the update can be applied to that specific processor version, but it cannot be effectively conformed to all other processors to ensure seamless operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a chipset management system as an intermediary layer between the update source and multiple processor versions. This intermediary identifies chipset versions, determines compatibility with different CPU families, and orchestrates the distribution of appropriate updates. The chipset management system acts as a mediator that translates update requirements into processor-specific implementations, enabling one update issuance to serve multiple processor versions while maintaining reliability across the enterprise network.
2Adaptability or versatility
If updates are applied across different CPU families, then coverage is improved, but incompatible updates can create serious issues and security vulnerabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary compatibility verification through trust-signature verified updates and a CPU-to-chipset bridge protocol before updates are applied. The chipset management system pre-assesses compatibility across different CPU families, validates update packages through cryptographic signatures, and prepares appropriate update configurations in advance. This preliminary action prevents incompatible updates from being deployed, thereby avoiding security vulnerabilities and operational failures while maintaining broad update coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where the chipset management system monitors update deployment status, system performance, and error reports across the enterprise network. This feedback loop enables the system to identify compatibility issues in real-time, adjust update distribution strategies, and prevent problematic updates from being applied to incompatible CPU families. The feedback mechanism continuously improves update compatibility and reduces security risks across diverse processor environments.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a hardware abstraction provisioning protocol is implemented to decouple CPU-to-chipset derivation code, then update compatibility is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the update provisioning system into distinct functional modules: a hardware abstraction layer that handles vendor-specific variations, a chipset management system that orchestrates updates, and a boot system that implements updates. By segmenting the complex protocol into manageable components with well-defined interfaces, the system achieves broad compatibility across different silicon vendors while keeping implementation complexity distributed and controllable. Each segment handles specific aspects of the update process, reducing the cognitive and implementation burden of the overall system.
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AI summary
A system for network management comprising a silicon management system operating on a processor that causes the processor to load one or more algorithms stored in a non-transient data memory to cause the processor to identify a version for a plurality of silicon data processing devices and to implement an update to one or more of the silicon data processing devices, a chipset management system operating on a processor that causes the processor to load one or more algorithms stored in a non-transient data memory to cause the processor to identify a version for a plurality of chipsets, each chipset associated with one of the silicon data processing devices and to implement an update to one or more of the chipsets and a boot system configured to cause a system associated with the updated silicon data processing devices and the updated chipsets to reboot.