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US 12,260,206 · App. 17/823,879 · Granted Mar 25, 2025

Information processing device, information processing system and non-transitory computer readable medium

Inventors: Shinya Takumi (Sumida Tokyo, JP); Yurie Shinke (Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP); Ryuiti Koike (Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP); Fumihiko Sano (Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP); Jun Kanai (Inagi Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
G06F8/65
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,260,206
App. No.
17/823,879
Filed
Aug 31, 2022
Granted
Mar 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Examiner
VO, TED T
Art Unit
2191
USPC
717/170
Abstract

An information processing system includes an edge server and a low-end device. The edge server has a storage and a processor. The low-end device has a storage and a processor, connected to the edge server. The processor of the low-end device transmits abnormality information for detecting its own abnormality to the edge server, the storage of the edge server stores information on the software. The low-end device information includes the version of the software. The processor of the edge server detects an abnormality in the low-end device based on the abnormality information, acquires version information of the software, acquires information on rollback software which is a version of software older than a version in the version information of the software running in the low-end device from the storage, and requests the low-end device to roll back the software based on the information on the rollback software.

Claims (78)

1. An information processing system comprising:

one or more edge servers each having a storage and a processing circuit;

one or more low-end devices each having a storage and a processing circuit, connected to at least one of the edge servers, and changing software in response to a request from the edge server; and

a software management console having a storage and a processing circuit and connected to the edge server,

wherein

the processing circuit of the low-end device

transmits abnormality information for detecting its own abnormality to the edge server, the storage of the edge server

stores information on the software for every version and

low-end device information including the version of the software to run on the low-end device, and the processing circuit of the edge server

detects an abnormality in the low-end device based on the abnormality information acquired from the low-end device, acquires version information of the software of the low-end device stored in the storage based on the abnormality detected,

acquires information on rollback software, which is a version of software older than a version in the version information of the software running in the low-end device, from the storage, and

requests the low-end device to roll back the software based on the information on the rollback software, and

wherein

when rollback of the low-end device is requested, the processing circuit of the edge server transmits, to the software management console, rollback device information including information on the low-end device that has been rolled back, and the processing circuit of the software management console stores the rollback device information received, in the storage of the software management console.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein when the processing circuit of the edge server requests to update the software of the low-end device to update software, the processing circuit of the edge server

stores a version of the update software, software information of the update software, and the low-end device information based on the update software in the storage of the edge server.

3. The information processing system according to claim 2 , wherein

the storage of the software management console

stores distribution software for each version, and

the processing circuit of the software management console

distributes the distribution software to the edge server, and

determines necessity of rollback for the low-end device based on the rollback device information acquired from the storage of the software management console.

4. The information processing system according to claim 3 , wherein

the processing circuit of the software management console further

stores the distribution software as the update software in the storage of the software management console, for the low-end device determined to require rollback.

5. The information processing system according to claim 4 , wherein

the processing circuit of the software management console further

determines the necessity of rollback when the number of low-end devices rolled back exceeds a predetermined value.

6. The information processing system according to claim 4 , wherein

the processing circuit of the edge server

verifies the update software based on software verification information having information for verifying software including software signature information for the update software in response to a software update request to the low-end device from the software management console, the storage of the software management console

stores the software verification information, the processing circuit of the software management console

transmits the software verification information to the edge server, and

when the processing circuit of the software management console determines that the rollback is necessary, the processing circuit of the software management console stores the software verification information of the rollback software in the storage of the software management console.

7. The information processing system according to claim 6 , wherein

the processing circuit of the edge server

makes a duplicate rollback determination to skip updating the software in response to the software update request to the low-end device from the software management console when the same software as the software update request is already running in the low-end device.

8. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein

the information on the software includes memory information for arranging software, and

the processing circuit of the low-end device

maps the software to a memory based on the memory information.

9. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein

the information on the software includes software signature information, and

the processing circuit of the low-end device

verifies the information on the software based on the software signature information.

10. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein

the information on the software includes software format information, and

the processing circuit of the low-end device

converts the information on the software into software executable on the low-end device based on the software format information.

11. The information processing system according to claim 10 , wherein

the software format information is information on encryption, encoding, or compression.

12. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein

the processing circuit of the low-end device notifies the edge server of occurrence of the abnormality when an abnormal state occurs.

13. The information processing system according to claim 12 , wherein

the processing circuit of the low-end device transmits memory data read from the memory of the low-end device at a timing of notification of the occurrence of the abnormality.

14. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein

the abnormality information is a TCP/IP protocol message,

the storage of the edge server

stores an abnormality detection setting file in which TCP/IP header information, TCP/IP payload information, and a timeout time are described, and the processing circuit of the edge server

detects the abnormality when the header information and the payload information of the abnormality information are different from the abnormality detection setting file, or when a cycle of receiving the abnormality information is different from a cycle described in the abnormality detection setting file.

15. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein

the processing circuit of the edge server stores a cause of occurrence of the abnormality as a log in the storage of the edge server.

16. An information processing device comprising:

a storage that stores information of software for every version to run in a low-end device connected and low-end device information including the version of the software to run on the low-end device; and

a processing circuit connected to the storage, wherein

the processing circuit

acquires abnormality information from the low-end device,

detects an abnormality in the low-end device based on the abnormality information acquired from the low-end device, acquires version information of the software of the low-end device stored in the storage based on the abnormality detected, acquires information on rollback software, which is a version of software older than a version in the version information of the software running in the low-end device, from the storage,

requests the low-end device to roll back the software based on the information on the rollback software, and

transmits, when requesting rollback of the low-end device, rollback device information including information on the low-end device that has been rolled back to a software management console to store the rollback device information in a storage of the software management console.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program executed by an information processing device to perform an information processing method, the information processing device comprising:

a storage that stores information of software for every version to run in a low-end device connected and low-end device information including the version of the software to run on the low-end device; and

a processing circuit, connected to the storage, performing the method, wherein the method comprises:

acquiring abnormality information from the low-end device;

detecting an abnormality in the low-end device based on the abnormality information acquired from the low-end device;

acquiring version information of the software of the low-end device stored in the storage based on the abnormality detected, and acquiring information on rollback software, which is a version of software older than a version in the version information of the software running in the low-end device, from the storage;

requesting the low-end device to roll back the software based on the information on the rollback software; and

transmitting, when requesting rollback of the low-end device, rollback device information including information on the low-end device that has been rolled back to a software management console to store the rollback device information in a storage of the software management console.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 31, 2022
From: TAKUMI, SHINYA; SHINKE, YURIE; KOIKE, RYUITI; SANO, FUMIHIKO; KANAI, JUN
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
Reel/Frame 060959/0385 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-203627 · Dec 15, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230185560A1 · Jun 15, 2023
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