Composite Vehicle SBOM Management for Conflict Resolution
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge in maintaining a unified view of vehicle software artifacts is posed by inconsistent naming conventions and diverse metadata associations across different sources, leading to manual, time-consuming, and error-prone integration of software bill of materials (SBOMs, which can propagate discrepancies.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle software bill of materials management and analysis service integrates, formats, and maintains SBOMs to generate a composite SBOM, addressing naming variations and metadata inconsistencies, and provides a single view by defining structures, transforming data, resolving conflicts, and tracking changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual integration of SBOMs from different sources is performed, then flexibility in handling diverse naming conventions and metadata is achieved, but time consumption and error rate increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical integration processes with automated computational systems. The system uses algorithms to automatically match software artifacts across different SBOMs by comparing naming conventions, identifiers, and metadata, eliminating the need for manual review and integration while maintaining adaptability to diverse formats.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary matching system that acts as a mediator between diverse SBOM sources. This intermediary layer standardizes the integration process by automatically resolving naming conflicts, matching artifacts across different conventions, and harmonizing metadata structures without requiring manual intervention.
2Loss of information
If multiple SBOMs are integrated into a composite SBOM, then comprehensive view of vehicle software is achieved, but discrepancies and conflicts between sources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the system continuously monitors and compares software artifact data across multiple SBOMs. When discrepancies are detected, the system automatically identifies conflicts, resolves them using predefined rules, and validates the composite SBOM for consistency, ensuring reliable integration while maintaining comprehensive coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary matching and validation operations before finalizing the composite SBOM. The system pre-processes multiple SBOMs to identify potential conflicts, pre-resolves naming conventions and metadata inconsistencies, and validates data integrity beforehand, preventing discrepancies from propagating into the final composite structure.
3Productivity
If automated systems are used to integrate SBOMs, then time efficiency is improved, but handling of complex naming variations and metadata inconsistencies becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex integration task into distinct modular components: a matching engine for artifact identification, a normalization module for standardizing naming conventions, a conflict resolution system for handling discrepancies, and a validation layer for ensuring consistency. This segmentation manages system complexity while maintaining high automation capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent designs a universal integration platform that handles multiple SBOM formats, naming conventions, and metadata structures through a single automated system. The system incorporates multi-functional algorithms that can adapt to diverse input formats and resolve various types of conflicts using standardized procedures, reducing the need for multiple specialized systems.
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AI summary
A vehicle software bill of materials management service generates or updates a composite software bill of materials (composite SBOM) for a vehicle using one or more received software bill of materials (SBOMs). The vehicle software bill of materials management service allows a customer to define software artifact instances of the composite SBOM, including granularity of specificity and identity attributes. The vehicle software bill of materials management service maintains the composite SBOM and resolves conflict between different SBOMs. The vehicle software bill of materials management service resolves anomalies encountered during software artifact instance generation and enriches software artifact instances of the composite SBOM with additional metadata.