Network Event Triggered Software Updates for Client Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Multiple system operators face inefficiencies in updating software on a large number of client devices, as conventional polling methods consume significant network resources and processing time, leading to outdated software being updated too slowly, potentially becoming outdated before completion.
Innovation Solution
A system that identifies network events, such as configuration parameter requests, to trigger software updates, reducing the need for extensive polling by comparing software versions and communicating updates only when necessary, using a configuration server and update server to manage software updates efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the MSO server polls each client device to check for software updates, then the software can be updated, but extensive network resources and processing time are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of the server actively polling each client device to check for updates, the system inverts the approach by having client devices autonomously report their software version information to the server. This reversal of the information flow eliminates the need for extensive polling while maintaining accurate tracking of software up-to-dateness across the network.
Solution Approach 2:
Client devices are equipped with the capability to self-report their software version status to the MSO server. This self-service mechanism allows devices to proactively provide update information without requiring external polling, thereby reducing server processing time and network resource consumption while ensuring reliable software version tracking.
2Reliability
If the MSO server polls each client device to check for software updates, then the software can be updated, but significant processing time is consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The system inverts the traditional polling mechanism by having client devices autonomously report their software version information to the server. This reversal eliminates the time-consuming polling process while maintaining accurate and timely tracking of software updates across all client devices.
Solution Approach 2:
Client devices perform preliminary action by proactively reporting their software version status to the server before being prompted. This advance reporting mechanism allows the server to maintain an up-to-date inventory of software versions across the network without investing significant processing time in active polling operations.
3Reliability
If extensive polling is performed to update software on all client devices, then software updates can be distributed, but the updated software may already be out of date by the time all devices are updated
Solution Approach 1:
Client devices perform preliminary action by autonomously reporting their software version status to the server in advance. This allows the server to immediately identify which devices need updates and distribute them without delay, ensuring that all devices receive current software versions before they become outdated.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where client devices continuously report their software version information to the server. This real-time feedback loop enables the server to maintain accurate knowledge of software status across the network and promptly distribute updates, ensuring software consistency without time delays.
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AI summary
Systems and methods may provide for identifying a network event trigger generated in response to a network event being identified due to receipt of a message, from a client device, comprising a request for or to extend a configuration parameter. The systems and methods may further provide for identifying a software update for software of the client device in response to the network event trigger, and communicating a software update message comprising the software update to cause updating of the software of the client device.