Monitor Circuit for Edge Cloud Traffic Telemetry

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Solution Overview

Problem

In edge cloud architectures, monitoring traffic and resource usage across multiple edge cloud entities becomes challenging due to flexible data movement and sharing.

Innovation Solution

An apparatus with a monitor circuit that tracks traffic from multiple sources, maintains telemetry information based on received rules, and determines whether to send callback messages or tracing requests to selected sources, while storing telemetry information for access.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If monitoring is implemented in edge cloud architecture with flexible data movement, then monitoring capability is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemonitoring capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a monitor circuit as an intermediary component that sits between multiple traffic sources and the monitoring system. This mediator receives telemetry rules from sources, autonomously monitors traffic according to these rules, and generates callback messages when conditions are met, thereby improving monitoring capability while isolating the complexity from both sources and central control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The monitoring system is segmented into distributed monitor circuits at different locations rather than a centralized monitoring approach. Each monitor circuit independently handles telemetry rules and traffic monitoring for its local sources, dividing the complex monitoring task into manageable segments that can operate autonomously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Measurement precision

If fine-grained monitoring of multiple sources is implemented, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemonitoring precisionVSAvoidmonitoring system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Each monitor circuit is configured with specific telemetry rules tailored to its local traffic sources, enabling fine-grained monitoring precision for each source while maintaining uniform monitor circuit architecture. The local quality of monitoring rules allows precise monitoring without requiring complex centralized processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

Monitor circuits autonomously evaluate telemetry rules and generate callback messages when conditions are satisfied, without requiring constant central control or complex coordination. This self-service capability enables precise monitoring of multiple sources while keeping the system relatively simple through decentralized autonomous operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP3962031B1Apparatus and method for advanced monitoring in an edge system
Publication Date: 2025.03.05 INTEL CORP
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AI summary

In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a monitor circuit to monitor traffic of a plurality of sources through the apparatus and maintain telemetry information regarding the traffic based at least in part on telemetry rules received from the plurality of sources, wherein the monitor circuit is to determine whether to send a callback message to a selected one of the plurality of sources, the callback message including telemetry information associated with the traffic of the selected source through the apparatus; and a storage coupled to the monitor circuit, the storage to store the telemetry information, wherein the monitor circuit is to access the telemetry information from the storage. Other embodiments are described and claimed.