Platform Framework Arbitration for IHS Hardware Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing Information Handling Systems (IHSs) face inefficiencies due to the need for each application to communicate directly with specific hardware endpoints, leading to software development burdens and parallel execution paths that result in inefficiencies, especially when multiple applications request the same information from the same hardware.
Innovation Solution
A platform framework that provides a comprehensive system management orchestration, enabling scalability and performance optimizations by allowing multiple applications to access hardware endpoints directly and managing communications between participants through an Application Programming Interface (API), including arbitration and multicasting of arbitration results.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If each application communicates directly with specific hardware endpoints, then applications can access hardware functionality, but software development burden increases and redundant code paths are created
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a platform framework as an intermediary layer between applications and hardware endpoints. This framework provides standardized communication interfaces and arbitration mechanisms, allowing applications to access hardware functionality without direct complex interactions. The framework mediates between multiple applications and hardware resources, eliminating redundant code paths while maintaining accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform framework serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a communication interface, an arbitration mechanism, and a resource management system. By providing universal access methods for multiple applications to interact with hardware endpoints through standardized APIs, it reduces software development burden while handling diverse communication requirements.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple applications request the same information from the same hardware, then comprehensive data access is achieved, but inefficiencies arise from parallel execution paths
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple parallel execution paths into a unified arbitration mechanism. When multiple applications request the same hardware information, the platform framework combines these requests and manages them through a single arbitration object, eliminating redundant operations while maintaining all necessary data access capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The arbitration mechanism implements feedback by monitoring hardware resource usage and application requests, then dynamically managing access rights and data distribution. This feedback loop optimizes system efficiency by preventing redundant requests while ensuring all applications receive necessary information through coordinated access patterns.
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AI summary
Embodiments of systems and methods for platform framework arbitration are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: provide, from a platform framework to an arbitration object via an Application Programming Interface (API), a plurality of runtime objects; receive, by the platform framework from the arbitration object via the API, an indication of an arbitration result with respect to the plurality of objects; and convey, from the platform framework to a participant via the API, the indication of the arbitration result.