Unified Management Controller for Embedded Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

As the number of management controller embedded devices in a data processing system grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage individual devices, leading to additional management overhead and complexity.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a unified communication and management system that registers and manages multiple management controller embedded devices, allowing for streamlined information retrieval and analysis to identify and address undesired operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If multiple management controller embedded devices are managed individually, then each device can be monitored and controlled separately, but management complexity and overhead increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice monitoring and controlVSAvoidmanagement complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple individual device management operations into a unified management system. The management controller consolidates monitoring and control functions for multiple embedded devices, reducing management complexity while maintaining reliable individual device monitoring through integrated communication protocols and centralized management architecture.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Ease of operation

If multiple management controller embedded devices are managed individually, then device-specific control is maintained, but management overhead increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice-specific controlVSAvoidmanagement overhead

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The management controller implements a universal management interface that can control multiple different types of embedded devices through standardized protocols. This multi-functional approach maintains device-specific control capabilities while reducing management overhead by using a single unified system for all device management operations rather than multiple separate management processes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Device complexity

If a unified management system is implemented, then management complexity is reduced, but system integration requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemanagement complexityVSAvoidsystem integration

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The unified management system is segmented into modular components including communication protocols, data processing modules, and control functions that can be independently implemented and tested. This segmentation reduces system integration complexity by allowing incremental deployment and easier debugging of individual modules while maintaining the overall unified management architecture.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12210882B2System and method for managing management controller embedded devices

Publication Date: 2025.01.28 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

Methods and systems for managing operation of data processing systems are disclosed. To manage operation of the data processing systems, the data processing systems may present unified communication and management systems. The unified communication and management systems may be used to manage the operation of any number of management controller embedded devices hosted by the data processing systems. The unified communication and management systems may allow for communication with and management of the management controller embedded devices without requiring that the management systems directly interact with the management controller embedded devices.