Virtual Device Orchestration via Service Gateway
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication networks struggle to seamlessly integrate and coordinate the diverse capabilities of various devices to provide comprehensive services beyond the limitations of individual devices, leading to isolated operations and inefficient resource utilization.
Innovation Solution
A combinatorial server system that identifies and aggregates the capabilities of connected devices to create virtual devices, assigning functions and generating finite state machines to orchestrate services, enabling the combination of device capabilities to deliver enhanced services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If devices operate in isolation, then device simplicity and individual operation are maintained, but service capabilities are limited and resource utilization is inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a service gateway as an intermediary component that mediates between individual devices and the network. The gateway aggregates device capabilities, manages service requests, and coordinates resource allocation, thereby enabling extended service capabilities without requiring direct complex coordination between all devices. This intermediary approach resolves the contradiction by centralizing coordination functions while maintaining individual device simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The service gateway is designed as a universal platform that can aggregate capabilities from diverse device types (sensors, actuators, processors, storage) and provide unified service interfaces. This multi-functional gateway handles multiple service scenarios (monitoring, control, data processing) through a single coordinated system, thereby extending service capabilities across different application domains without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If devices are integrated to provide comprehensive services, then service capabilities are extended, but coordination complexity and system management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The service gateway acts as a management intermediary that abstracts the complexity of device coordination from end users and application systems. It provides unified service interfaces, standardized capability descriptions, and automated resource allocation, thereby enabling comprehensive service integration while maintaining ease of operation through standardized interaction protocols and centralized management functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs capability aggregation parameters and service level parameters that can be dynamically adjusted based on service requirements. The gateway transforms diverse device capabilities into standardized service parameters, enabling flexible service composition and simplifying management through parameter-based control rather than device-specific configurations.
3Productivity
If individual devices provide services independently, then device autonomy is maintained, but resource utilization efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges device capabilities at the service gateway level rather than requiring physical device integration. The gateway combines processing power, storage resources, sensor data, and actuator controls from multiple devices into unified service resources. This virtual merging approach improves resource utilization efficiency by enabling shared access and coordinated deployment of resources across services without the complexity of permanent physical integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The service gateway implements dynamic resource allocation and capability aggregation that adapts to changing service requirements. Resources are dynamically assigned to services based on demand, and device capabilities are flexibly combined to match service needs. This dynamic approach improves productivity by ensuring optimal resource utilization while maintaining relatively simple coordination mechanisms through automated resource management.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including selecting a solution set of devices from a set of candidate devices connected to a network to provide a service via a virtual device, generating a virtual finite state machine to control execution of the required functions of the virtual device via selected capabilities of each device of the solution set of devices transmitting, to a controller device of the solution set of devices, the virtual finite state machine, wherein execution of the virtual finite state machine by the controller device causes the controller device to control the required functions of the virtual device via the selected capabilities of each device of the solution set of devices, and transmitting, to non-controller devices of the solution set of devices, software data and configuration data, wherein execution of the software data at the non-controller devices according to the configuration data causes the non-controller devices to perform the selected capabilities according to signals sent by the controller device.