Universal Management Device for Cooperative Resource Allocation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current network and ICT management systems require redevelopment whenever changes occur in network devices, ICT devices, or communication schemes, and they cannot cooperatively allocate resources across multiple devices to meet user requests effectively.
Innovation Solution
A management device with a hardware processor and memory that stores specification and entity information, allowing it to identify and allocate resource capacities across multiple entities based on consumption needs, without depending on specific network or ICT devices, enabling cooperative resource management and allocation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a network and ICT management system uses specialized management functions for specific devices, then the management function can be optimized for that device type, but the system must be redeveloped whenever the network device model, ICT device model, or communication scheme changes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal management system that can handle multiple types of network devices, ICT devices, and communication schemes through a single standardized interface. The system uses a service-oriented architecture where management functions are abstracted into services that can be dynamically composed to manage different device types without requiring system redevelopment, thus achieving both reliability through standardized protocols and adaptability through flexible service composition.
2Device complexity
If the system manages resource capacities of individual devices separately, then device resource management can be simplified, but resources of multiple devices cannot be cooperatively allocated to meet user requests
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the resource capacity management of multiple individual devices into a unified cooperative allocation system. The management device aggregates resource capacity information from multiple network devices and ICT devices, then performs coordinated allocation across devices based on user requests. This combining approach maintains manageable complexity through standardized management protocols while significantly improving resource allocation efficiency by enabling multi-device cooperation.
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AI summary
A management device receives a request for generation of a first entity, and determines whether the first entity needs to consume a resource, on the basis of specification information about the first entity, the specification information being stored in advance. In a case where consumption of a resource is needed, the management device identifies a second entity capable of providing a capacity to be consumed by the first entity, on the basis of entity information that is stored in advance. On the basis of the second entity, the management device determines whether dispensation of the capacity of the resource to be consumed by the first entity is possible, and, if the dispensation is possible, dispenses the capacity to the first entity. When a plurality of first entity generation requests is received, the management device dispenses a capacity of a common resource to a plurality of the first entities requested to be generated through the plurality of entity generation requests, on the basis of the second entities identified for each first entity of the plurality of the first entities.