Declarative Data Lifecycle Operations for Consistent Edge Nodes

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Solution Overview

Problem

Maintaining data object consistency across multiple computing nodes in an edge environment is challenging due to the difficulty in synchronizing imperative commands, leading to increased overhead and limited decentralized management.

Innovation Solution

Implement declarative management of data lifecycle operations, where each node retrieves time values for operations like encryption or deletion from a central source based on object identifiers, allowing independent execution and ensuring consistency across nodes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If imperative commands are used to manage data lifecycle operations across multiple computing nodes, then centralized control is achieved, but synchronization overhead increases and decentralized management is limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata object consistencyVSAvoidsynchronization protocol complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Each computing node autonomously determines when to execute data lifecycle operations by locally evaluating time-based logic operators against current time, eliminating the need for complex centralized synchronization protocols while maintaining consistency across all nodes

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms the control mechanism from imperative commands requiring synchronization to declarative time-based logic operators that use time as a parameter to automatically determine execution timing, reducing synchronization overhead while maintaining data consistency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Ease of operation

If time-based logic operators are implemented at each computing node, then decentralized management is enabled, but ensuring consistent state across nodes becomes challenging

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedecentralized managementVSAvoidstate consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

All computing nodes operate under the same time-based logic operators and evaluate conditions against the same current time, creating an equipotential state where each node independently arrives at the same execution decisions without requiring communication or synchronization

Inventive Principle:

Principle #12Equipotentiality

Solution Approach 2:

Each node continuously monitors current time and automatically adjusts execution decisions based on time-based logic operator conditions, creating a feedback mechanism that ensures all nodes make consistent state changes at the appropriate times without centralized coordination

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12366988B2Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for data lifecycle management in an edge environment

Publication Date: 2025.07.22 INTEL CORP

AI summary

Apparatus and methods for data lifecycle management in an edge environment are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes an operation executor to identify a first operation to be performed for a data object at an edge node in an edge environment and a second operation to be performed for the data object, the first operation different that the second operation. The example apparatus includes a time parameter retriever to retrieve a first time value associated with the first operation from a data source and a second time value associated with the second operation from the data source. The operation executor is to execute the first operation in response to the first time value and to execute the second operation in response to the second time value.