Script Description Decoupling Execution and Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing script execution systems fail to effectively decouple script execution from script administration, leading to interference between script functionality and management, and often require users to adhere to specific execution frameworks, limiting flexibility and management capabilities.

Innovation Solution

Incorporating script descriptions that include execution conditions and actions, allowing a script plugin component to interpret these descriptions and generate conditional statements, thereby controlling script execution and enhancing decoupling between execution and management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If script execution systems use traditional execution frameworks, then script execution control is maintained, but script administration and execution become coupled, reducing management flexibility

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvescript management flexibilityVSAvoidsystem coupling complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the script system into distinct components: script descriptions (containing execution conditions and actions), script execution engine, and script administration interface. This segmentation decouples execution control from administration, allowing independent management of each component while maintaining overall system functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces script descriptions as an intermediary layer between script administration and script execution. These descriptions contain execution conditions and actions that mediate the interaction between administrators and the execution engine, enabling flexible management without direct coupling.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If script execution requires specific execution frameworks, then execution control is enforced, but user flexibility and framework independence are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveframework independenceVSAvoidexecution control reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal script execution mechanism that can operate independently of specific execution frameworks. The script description format and evaluation logic are designed to be framework-agnostic, allowing the same script to be executed across different environments while maintaining reliable execution control through the standardized description format.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Adaptability or versatility

If script descriptions include executable code, then functionality is enhanced, but security risks from code injection increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvescript functionalityVSAvoidcode injection vulnerability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the execution control logic from the script descriptions themselves and places it in the script execution engine. The descriptions contain only declarative execution conditions and actions, while the engine handles the actual execution logic, thereby eliminating code injection vulnerabilities while preserving full script functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the traditional mechanical approach of embedding executable code directly in scripts with a declarative description system. Instead of executing code within the script description, the system uses the description to generate and control execution through a separate engine, substituting direct code execution with a controlled interpretation mechanism.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS9892025B2Using script description to encode conditional statements

Publication Date: 2018.02.13 RED HAT INC

AI summary

Implementations of using script descriptions to encode conditional statements are disclosed. A method of an implementation of the disclosure includes retrieving a description string associated with an executable script. The method also includes generating, in view of the description string, a conditional statement specifying an action to be performed. The method further includes using the conditional statement to control execution of the executable script.