Network Revision Evaluator Grouping Strategy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network revision methods face challenges in ensuring compatibility across diverse network devices with varying features and characteristics, leading to potential failures and inefficiencies in deploying revisions.
Innovation Solution
The method involves grouping network devices based on predefined characteristics and determining revision compatibility by sending inquiries to representative devices within each group, storing records of successful revisions, and applying updates only to compatible groups.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If revisions are deployed to all network devices without grouping, then network revision deployment speed is improved, but revision compatibility and reliability deteriorate due to device variations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments network devices into distinct groups based on their features and predefined characteristics. Each group is evaluated separately for revision compatibility, allowing parallel processing of multiple groups while ensuring that revisions are only applied to compatible devices. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by enabling efficient batch processing without sacrificing compatibility checks.
2Reliability
If each network device is evaluated individually for revision compatibility, then revision reliability is improved, but analysis time and computational resources worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges devices with identical or similar features and characteristics into the same group. A single compatibility evaluation result applies to all devices within a group, eliminating redundant analyses. This merging approach maintains reliability by ensuring all devices in a group have the same compatibility profile while dramatically reducing the total number of evaluations needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates representative profiles for each device group that capture the essential features and characteristics. Once a compatibility evaluation is performed on one device or a representative device from a group, the result is copied and applied to all other devices in the same group, avoiding repeated identical analyses while maintaining accuracy.
3Productivity
If network devices are grouped by predefined characteristics, then analysis efficiency is improved, but device complexity and grouping criteria complexity worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes existing predefined characteristics and features of network devices as grouping parameters without introducing new complex classification systems. By leveraging already-available device attributes, the system achieves efficient grouping while avoiding additional complexity in device characterization or parameter management.
Data Source
AI summary
A process may include a step of receiving a request to perform a revision on plural network devices. The process may include a step of identifying at least a first group of the plural network devices according to a first predetermined criterion including at least a first feature with a same first predefined characteristic. The process may include a step of determining whether the requested revision can be successfully performed on network devices in the first group of the plural network devices. The process may include a step of storing on an electronic storage device a record of whether the requested revision can be successfully performed on the network devices in the first group of the plural network devices.