Resource Manager Disconnecting Virtual Entities During Reboot

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Solution Overview

Problem

Low resource consumption reboots in computing devices disrupt the continuity of direct use of computing resources, leading to potential service interruptions and inefficiencies, as they often result in lost information and dysfunctional virtual interfaces.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that involves a resource manager to disconnect virtual entities from physical computing resources during a low resource consumption reboot and reconnect them afterwards, ensuring continuity by storing and reinstating direct use information.

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 computational resources are reduced, but the continuity of direct use of computing resources is disrupted

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveenergy consumptionVSAvoidcontinuity of direct use

Core Design Contradiction:

Use of energy by moving objectVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by disconnecting virtual entities from physical computing resources before the reboot process begins, and by pre-establishing the conditions needed for reconnection. This allows the reboot to proceed with lower resource consumption while ensuring that the virtual entities can be quickly reconnected afterward, maintaining service continuity without requiring full resource initialization during the reboot.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism that manages the disconnection and reconnection of virtual entities from physical computing resources. This intermediary layer allows the system to perform reboots with reduced resource consumption while maintaining the ability to restore direct use relationships afterward, thus resolving the contradiction between energy efficiency and service continuity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of energy

If a low resource consumption reboot is performed, then computational costs are reduced, but service interruptions occur

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecomputational costsVSAvoidservice continuity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of energyVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The reboot process is segmented into distinct phases: disconnection of virtual entities, execution of low-resource reboot, and reconnection phase. This segmentation allows the system to minimize computational costs during the critical reboot execution phase while isolating the service interruption to only the necessary minimum time, thereby reducing overall computational costs without causing prolonged service interruptions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system maintains continuity of useful action by ensuring that virtual entities are disconnected before reboot and reconnected after reboot completes. This approach allows the reboot process to proceed with minimal resource consumption while the virtual entities remain in a suspended state, avoiding the need to maintain full service functionality during the reboot and thus reducing computational costs while limiting service interruption duration.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Device complexity

If direct use information is not preserved during reboot, then system complexity is reduced, but information is lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesystem complexityVSAvoiddirect use information

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and preserves critical direct use information about virtual entities and their relationships with physical computing resources before the reboot process. By separating this information from the main system state and storing it in a persistent manner, the system can perform simple reboots without complex preservation mechanisms while still maintaining the ability to restore direct use relationships afterward, thus balancing system complexity with information preservation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS11237837B2System and method for managing devices during reboot

Publication Date: 2022.02.01 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

An asset includes a physical computing resource. The physical computing resource is directly used by a virtual entity. The asset also includes a resource manager. The resource manager disconnects the virtual entity from the physical computing resource during a low resource consumption reboot of the asset until the low resource consumption reboot of the asset is complete. The resource manager also directly connects the virtual entity to the physical computing resource after the low resource consumption reboot of the asset.