Out-of-band Manager Power Descriptor Staging for Low Resource Reboots

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Solution Overview

Problem

Computing devices face inefficiencies and incomplete updates during low resource consumption reboots, as updates to hardware components' data structures are often not applied, leading to potential operational mismatches and reduced security.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that utilize an out-of-band manager to obtain and update power management descriptors and firmware tables before a low resource consumption reboot, ensuring that updates are staged and applied during the reboot process, thereby ensuring updates are implemented even during low resource consumption reboots.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Use of energy by moving object

If a low resource consumption reboot is performed, then energy consumption and time are reduced, but updates to hardware components data structures are not applied completely

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveenergy consumption during rebootVSAvoidcompleteness of update application

Core Design Contradiction:

Use of energy by moving objectVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by obtaining and validating power management updates before the low resource consumption reboot, preparing the necessary data structures in advance so that updates can be applied during the simplified reboot process without requiring a full resource-intensive reboot

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Loss of time

If a low resource consumption reboot is performed, then reboot time is reduced, but operational mismatches may occur due to incomplete updates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvereboot timeVSAvoidoperational consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system obtains and validates power management updates before the reboot, preparing updated data structures in advance. This preliminary preparation ensures that when the low resource consumption reboot occurs, the updates are already in place to be applied, maintaining operational consistency without requiring extended reboot time

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system validates the power management updates to ensure they are proper before proceeding with the reboot. This feedback mechanism ensures update quality and prevents operational mismatches, allowing the system to maintain reliability while using a faster low resource consumption reboot process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If update validation is performed, then update quality is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveupdate qualityVSAvoidprocessing time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs a focused validation specifically on power management updates rather than comprehensive validation of all system components. This partial validation approach ensures critical power management updates are proper while avoiding unnecessary processing time that would result from more extensive validation procedures

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11314521B2System and method for managing component updates

Publication Date: 2022.04.26 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

An asset includes physical computing resources and a physical computing resources manager. The physical computing resources manager obtains a power management update for a physical computing resource of the physical computing resources of the asset; in response to obtaining the power management update: obtains, using an out-of-band manager, a power management descriptor for the asset; updates the power management descriptor based on the power management update; stages the power management descriptor at a location; and performs a low resource consumption reboot using the location to implement the power management update.