Platform Framework Discovery for Stable Hardware Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing Information Handling Systems (IHSs) face inefficiencies due to multiple applications needing to communicate directly with specific hardware endpoints, leading to a heavy burden on software developers and overlapping execution paths, resulting in inefficiencies and instability.
Innovation Solution
A platform framework orchestration and discovery system that enables comprehensive system management, allowing applications to communicate through an Application Programming Interface (API) with hardware components, facilitating scalable access and performance optimizations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple applications communicate directly with specific hardware endpoints, then applications can access hardware resources, but software developers bear a heavy burden and execution paths overlap causing inefficiencies and instability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a platform framework as an intermediary layer between applications and hardware endpoints. This framework manages communication through standardized APIs, allowing applications to access hardware resources without direct connections to specific hardware endpoints. The framework handles resource allocation, communication routing, and coordination, thereby reducing developer burden and eliminating overlapping execution paths while maintaining ease of hardware access.
2Productivity
If applications communicate directly with hardware endpoints, then hardware access is achieved, but overlapping execution paths result in inefficiencies
Solution Approach 1:
The platform framework serves as a mediator that consolidates communication between applications and hardware. By routing all interactions through the framework's standardized APIs, it eliminates overlapping execution paths and redundant communication overhead. The framework optimizes resource allocation and coordination, thereby improving system productivity and efficiency.
3Adaptability or versatility
If direct hardware access is implemented, then applications can utilize hardware resources, but system stability is compromised due to overlapping execution paths
Solution Approach 1:
The platform framework acts as a stable intermediary layer that provides consistent and reliable access to hardware resources. It manages communication protocols, coordinates resource allocation, and handles error conditions centrally, thereby maintaining system operational stability. Applications interact with hardware through the framework's standardized interfaces, which ensure consistent behavior and prevent instability caused by direct hardware access.
4Reliability
If a platform framework is introduced for orchestration, then communication efficiency and stability are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The platform framework is designed as a universal, multi-functional system that handles diverse communication needs through standardized APIs. It provides unified services for resource allocation, coordination, and error handling across different hardware types and applications. This universality simplifies the overall system architecture by consolidating multiple specialized components into a single versatile framework, thereby improving communication stability without proportionally increasing complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of systems and methods for platform framework orchestration and discovery 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: receive, by a service within a platform framework through an Application Programming Interface (API), a discovery request; in response to the discovery request, convey an inquiry for capability information from the service to a participant registered with the platform framework through the API; receive, by the service from the participant through the API, the capability information; and fulfill, by the service through the API, the discovery request using at least a portion of the capability information.