Software State Migration Using Signature Comparison for Warm Boot
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Solution Overview
Problem
Software upgrades in silicon products require a complete power cycle, leading to hardware performance degradation and disruption, as existing systems fail to manage software state changes efficiently during upgrades.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for software state management that generates and compares signatures of data structures before and after upgrades, enabling a warm boot process to update and migrate software states without disrupting hardware performance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a cold boot is performed to upgrade software, then software version is updated, but hardware performance degrades and service disruption occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by generating and storing signatures of data structures before the software upgrade. During the warm boot, these pre-generated signatures are compared with new signatures to detect changes, enabling the system to prepare for state migration in advance and avoid service disruption.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces signatures as an intermediary mechanism to detect data structure changes. Instead of directly comparing complex data structures, the system uses compact signatures as mediators to identify changes, enabling efficient detection and triggering of state migration without full system restart.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a cold boot is performed to upgrade software, then software version is updated, but service disruption and latency increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system generates and stores data structure signatures during offline phases before the warm boot occurs. This preliminary preparation enables the upgrade process to proceed quickly during the warm boot by comparing pre-generated signatures rather than analyzing entire data structures from scratch.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates compact copies of data structure information in the form of signatures. These signature copies are stored in memory and can be quickly compared during the warm boot process, replacing the need to handle full data structure copies and significantly reducing processing time.
3Measurement precision
If signature comparison is performed to detect data structure changes, then state migration accuracy is improved, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates simplified copies of data structures in the form of signatures that capture essential characteristics. These signature copies retain enough information to accurately detect changes while being computationally much simpler to compare than full data structures, thus improving detection accuracy without proportionally increasing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms complex data structure comparison into a parameter-based signature comparison. By changing the representation from full data structures to condensed signature parameters, the system achieves precise change detection with reduced computational complexity.
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