Software Logistics Protocol Standardization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Software logistics tools lack standardization and integration, making it difficult to manage and orchestrate diverse software lifecycle processes across different systems, leading to inefficiencies in installation, update, and configuration.
Innovation Solution
A software logistics protocol that provides a common API for controlling and managing software lifecycle processes, enabling standardization, remote management, and integration of various tools through REST and HTTP-based protocols, allowing for monitoring, configuration, and execution of processes across multiple systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If proprietary solutions are used for communication between software logistics tools and their surrounding environments, then each tool can maintain its own unique communication methods, but it becomes difficult to manage and orchestrate diverse software lifecycle processes across different systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal protocol that enables different software logistics tools to communicate through a common interface. This protocol defines standardized message formats, communication patterns, and interaction mechanisms that allow diverse tools (installation, update, configuration tools) to be orchestrated uniformly across different systems, eliminating the need for proprietary communication solutions while maintaining tool-specific functionality through configurable parameters
2Reliability
If multiple different software logistics tools are used to perform installation, update, and configuration processes, then specific tool functionalities can be optimized, but it becomes difficult to orchestrate and manage these diverse processes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary orchestrator component that manages multiple software logistics tools through a standardized protocol. This intermediary translates high-level orchestration requests into tool-specific commands, coordinates execution sequences, handles error propagation, and aggregates results, thereby simplifying the management of diverse processes while preserving the reliability benefits of specialized tools
3Adaptability or versatility
If proprietary communication methods are used by each software logistics tool, then each tool can operate independently, but integration with third-party solutions becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The standardized protocol serves as a universal interface that maintains tool independence while enabling seamless integration. Each tool continues to operate autonomously with its own logic and capabilities, but the protocol provides a common language for interaction, allowing third-party solutions to be integrated without requiring proprietary adaptation layers or custom integration code
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AI summary
Techniques for using a software logistics protocol include initiating, using the software logistics protocol, a software logistics process, the software logistics protocol being a common application programming interface (API) for controlling and managing the life cycle and operation of a plurality of different software logistics processes; monitoring, using the software logistics protocol, the progress of execution of the software logistics process; and gathering, using the software logistics protocol, output information from the software logistics process after the software logistics process finishes executing.