Virtual Integration Environments for Multi-Recipient Software Reliability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for ensuring software reliability in safety-critical environments are limited and do not adequately account for the unique interactions between software and multiple operating environments, potentially leading to safety risks.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method for virtual integration environments that include a processor and memory to receive a software package, determine recipient environments, execute the software in virtual representations of those environments, generate performance data, compare it to thresholds, and display results graphically, allowing for comprehensive monitoring and analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If software is tested in limited environments, then testing complexity is reduced, but software reliability assessment becomes insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of recipient operating environments through virtualization technology. These virtual environments replicate the hardware, software, and network configurations of actual recipient systems, allowing software to be tested in multiple realistic environments without requiring physical access to each recipient system. This resolves the contradiction by enabling comprehensive reliability assessment through environment copying while avoiding the complexity of managing multiple physical test systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent dynamically configures virtual operating environments by modifying parameters such as hardware specifications, software versions, and network settings to match different recipient environments. This allows a single testing platform to simulate multiple diverse environments by changing configuration parameters, thereby assessing software reliability across various conditions without increasing physical system complexity.
2Reliability
If software is monitored in multiple environments, then software reliability understanding is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal virtualization platform that can host and monitor multiple virtual operating environments simultaneously. This single platform performs the function of monitoring software across diverse environments without requiring separate monitoring systems for each environment. The virtualization infrastructure provides unified management, resource allocation, and monitoring capabilities, thereby improving software reliability understanding while avoiding the complexity of multiple independent monitoring systems.
3Manufacturing precision
If virtual representations of recipient systems are created, then software compatibility testing is improved, but computational resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements selective virtual environment creation by only instantiating virtual representations for recipients who have requested software or when compatibility testing is actually needed. Rather than maintaining all possible virtual environments continuously, the system creates them on-demand and terminates them when no longer required. This approach maintains high compatibility testing accuracy by having complete virtual environments available when needed, while reducing computational resource consumption by avoiding continuous maintenance of all environments.
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AI summary
An apparatus for virtual integration environments, the apparatus including computing device configured to receive a software package for deployment, determine one or more recipients of the software package, select one or more operating environments as a function of the software package and the one or more recipients, wherein each operating environment of the one or more operating environments is a virtual representation of a system associated with each recipient of the one or more recipients, execute the software package within the one or more operating environments, generate performance data for each operating environment of the one or more operating environments, compare each performance data of the one or more performance data to one or more performance thresholds and graphically display at least the one or more performance data through a graphical user interface.