Cloud Mastered Settings for Heterogeneous Environment Consistency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current computer systems require administrators to manage settings separately across multiple heterogeneous computing environments, leading to inefficiencies and inconsistencies in deploying and implementing settings across different premises.
Innovation Solution
A settings management system that generates user interface displays and detects user input mechanisms to create settings metadata, which is then output for access by various computing environments, ensuring consistency across all environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If administrators manage settings separately in each heterogeneous computing environment, then each environment can be configured independently, but the administrative workload increases significantly and consistency across environments becomes difficult to maintain
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the settings management into two distinct components: cloud-mastered settings (centralized configuration) and environment-specific settings (local customization). This segmentation allows administrators to manage common settings centrally while permitting local environments to override specific settings as needed, thereby reducing overall management complexity while maintaining environmental independence.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces cloud-mastered settings as an intermediary layer between the administrator and heterogeneous computing environments. This intermediary provides a standardized interface for configuration management, automatically distributes settings across environments, and handles the complexity of environment-specific variations, thereby reducing the administrative burden while maintaining consistency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If settings are managed separately in each premise, then local customization is possible, but time and resources are wasted due to repetitive manual configuration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring cloud-mastered settings that automatically propagate to multiple heterogeneous environments. This preliminary configuration establishes a baseline setting structure in advance, eliminating the need for repetitive manual configuration in each environment while still allowing local customization through environment-specific settings overrides.
3Stability of the object's composition
If cloud-mastered settings are implemented across heterogeneous environments, then consistency is improved, but compatibility issues may arise between different computing system architectures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing environment-specific settings that can override cloud-mastered settings on a per-environment basis. This enables each heterogeneous computing environment to customize settings according to its specific architectural requirements while maintaining consistency for common settings defined at the cloud-mastered level, thereby resolving compatibility issues without sacrificing overall consistency.
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AI summary
A settings management system in a remote server environment generates user interface displays with settings management user input mechanisms, and detects actuation of those user input mechanisms. Settings configuration metadata is generated, for a given setting, based upon the detected actuation. The settings metadata is output for access by a plurality of different, heterogeneous, computing environments, and the settings metadata is consistent across all of those environments.