Resource Information Management for Targeted Virtual Value Retrieval
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing management devices return multiple values when calculating results, leading to unnecessary processing and increased traffic, and may return unrequested values, which can compromise security and accuracy.
Innovation Solution
A management device that uses a data model to differentiate between real and virtual resource information, allowing for targeted value acquisition and calculation, eliminating the need to return unrequested values and reducing traffic by only transmitting the calculation result.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the management device returns multiple values when calculating results, then the application can perform calculations, but unnecessary processing and increased traffic occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and returns only the necessary calculation result from the management device, eliminating the need to return multiple intermediate values. This reduces network traffic and processing overhead while maintaining the application's ability to perform calculations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the data model into real resource information and virtual resource information, allowing the management device to handle calculations internally and return only the final virtual resource information (calculation result) rather than all intermediate real resource values.
2Loss of information
If the management device returns unrequested values, then complete information is provided, but security is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and returns only the specific information requested by the application, filtering out unrequested values. This maintains information completeness for the requested data while enhancing security by not exposing unnecessary information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different quality levels to different types of information, with real resource information kept secure within the management device and only virtual resource information (calculation results) being returned to applications, creating a security hierarchy.
3Reliability
If values are collected from multiple devices at different time points, then data availability is improved, but accuracy decreases due to time differences
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by collecting values from multiple devices and storing them in the data model with their time points recorded. This allows the management device to prepare data for future calculations while maintaining temporal information for accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback by checking time points of collected values against each other and, when mismatches are detected, recollecting values to ensure temporal consistency. This feedback mechanism maintains both data availability and calculation accuracy.
Data Source
AI summary
A receiver (131) receives an acquisition request to acquire a value of real resource information associated with a device (20) connected to a network or a value of virtual resource information associated with a calculation result of calculation performed using a value of the real resource information. A real resource information acquirer (1352) acquires the value of the real resource information by causing a collector (140) to collect a value from the device (20) associated with the real resource information. A virtual resource information acquirer (1353) acquires the value of the virtual resource information by causing a calculator (1354) to perform calculation using the value of the real resource information. A responder (136) returns a response including the value of the real resource information or a response including the value of the virtual resource information based on the received acquisition request.