Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to perform processing of acquiring firmware that includes three or more binaries including a first program, a second program, and a third program and in which a download program is provided in the first program and the programs are started up in order from the first program, verifying the subsequent program by starting up the programs in order from the first program, verifying the subsequent program by the program in which the download program is not provided, and recording an error flag in a non-volatile memory area in a case where an error occurs, and recovering the error by executing the download program in a case where the error flag is recorded in the non-volatile memory area at a time of restart.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for performing searches of event records by leveraging reference values in an inverted index. A method of searching comprises accessing a query associated with a first set of event records in a field searchable data store, each event record comprising a time-stamped portion of raw machine data. The method further comprises evaluating the query and generating results for the query by accessing an inverted index, wherein each entry in the inverted index comprises at least one field, a corresponding at least one field value and a reference value that identifies a location in the field searchable data store where an associated event record is stored. The method further comprises performing a search to filter out a second set of event records and retrieving the second set of event records from the field searchable data store using reference values in the inverted index.

Abstract: A device receives a first message indicating that a base station transmitted content relating to vehicle operation to a telemetry device associated with a first vehicle. The device processes the content to affect driving behavior of the first vehicle. The device generates a second message that includes a link to the content. The device sends the second message to a remote device, associated with a second vehicle. The device, by sending the second message to the remote device, causes the remote device to download the content via the link and send the second message to a neighbor device, associated with a third vehicle, which causes the neighbor device to download the content via the link. By downloading the content, the remote device and the neighbor device process the content to affect driving behavior of the second vehicle and the third vehicle.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method of updating cluster software use a universal serial bus (USB) terminal. The method includes connecting a USB memory to a USB socket of the USB terminal, determining whether a cluster software update file is present in the USB memory, by a head unit, when there is the cluster software update file, changing a USB host to a cluster, and receiving data for update from the USB memory and updating the software of the cluster, by the cluster.

Abstract: Application developers can request to have their applications registered for use with a content delivery platform. The operator of the content delivery platform establishes perimeters defining geographic areas, and maintains records reserving particular areas for delivery of content associated with particular sponsors. Registered applications running on mobile devices can request content from the content delivery platform. Based at least in part on the request, the content delivery platform can identify a target location, which may be the location of the mobile device, or some other location indicated in the request. A mobile device can be provided content based on the relationship of the target location to the geographic areas, so that a registered application running on a mobile device with a target location contained within a geographic area assigned to a particular sponsor will receive content related to that sponsor.

Abstract: A center configured to communicate with an OTA master configured to control software update for an electronic control unit mounted on a vehicle includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to store security information in which regions are associated with security levels required for the software update, receive, from the vehicle, position information indicating a position of the vehicle, and generate a distribution package applied encryption at a security level associated with the region where the vehicle is located based on the security information and the position information.

Abstract: A quality score for a computer application release is determined using a first number of unique users who have launched the computer application release on user devices and a second number of unique users who have encountered at least once an abnormal termination with the computer application release on user devices. Additionally or optionally, an application quality score can be computed for a computer application based on quality scores of computer application releases that represent different versions of the computer application. Additionally or optionally, a weighted application quality score can be computed for a computer application by further taking into consideration the average application quality score and popularity of a plurality of computer applications.

Abstract: A center, configured to communicate with an OTA master configured to control software updating of an electronic control unit via a first network, includes a processor. The electronic control unit is installed in a vehicle. The processor is configured to store vehicle management information including key information used for authenticating the vehicle, receive an authentication signal from the vehicle via the first network. The authentication signal is signed using a unique key imparted to predetermined equipment installed in the vehicle. The processor is configured to perform authentication of the vehicle based on the vehicle management information and the authentication signal, and when the processor receives the key information from the vehicle, rewrites the vehicle management information stored by the processor based on the key information.

Abstract: A data processing method includes: generating a service serial number for a target service according to a preset naming rule; obtaining service data of the target service; obtaining a target data table from a plurality of pre-configured data tables, according to the service serial number; and storing the service data to the target data table.

Abstract: A device management system includes an automatic updater that automatically generates an automatic F/W update task in accordance with an automatic F/W update plan which is a setting for automatically generating the automatic F/W update task as a task for updating firmware of an image forming apparatus. The automatic F/W update plan includes specifying of firmware for update and a mode in which the update is fully executed on all electronic apparatuses of a target of the software update. The automatic updater automatically generates the automatic F/W update task in accordance with the automatic F/W update plan at a specific timing in a repeat manner.

Abstract: A home appliance includes a cabinet, a user interface provided on the cabinet, the user interface comprising one or more light emitting diodes and at least one input button, a wireless communication module configured to receive wireless transmissions, and a controller provided within the cabinet. The controller is configured for receiving a request for a system update via the wireless communication module, displaying a predetermined sequence on the user interface via the one or more light emitting diodes indicating that the request for the system update is available, receiving a confirmation via a user input to the user interface to initiate the system update, and instructing the wireless communication module to obtain the system update.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a software upgrade system, which is applicable to at least one autonomous mobile robot installed with software in a data distribution service domain. The at least one autonomous mobile robot publishes a version information about the software to the version synchronization topic and receives other version information from the version synchronization topic. Also, the at least one autonomous mobile robot subscribes to a version synchronization topic, and takes the software of the at least one autonomous mobile robot itself as the latest version by a software update procedure to upload to a software update topic, or downloads the latest version of the software from the software update topic and installs it. The present disclosure provides a software upgrade method and a non-transitory recording medium.

Abstract: Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for automatically deploying an SDN are disclosed. A processor implements a declarative model for an SDN deployment and receives, in the declarative model, service order data from a user corresponding to the SDN deployment. The service order data includes high-level declarative statement data specifying a desired end-state of the SDN deployment. The processor translates the high-level declarative statement data into a low-level specification data that includes data corresponding to a topology and how the SDN should be deployed; creates a run-time topology model based on the low-level specification data; determines whether the service order is valid or not by comparing the low-level specification data against predefined policies and infrastructure constraints data corresponding to execution of the SDN deployment; and automatically executes deployment of the SDN based on a determination that the service order is valid in response to the run-time topology model.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices facilitate synchronization of content between instances of data records. Servers may be configured to generate a data record comprising a dynamic synchronization data object, receive an input associated with the data record, and determine a plurality of synchronization parameters including a plurality of expansion parameters and a plurality of permission parameters associated with the dynamic synchronization data object. The servers may be configured to determine a plurality of update parameters based on the synchronization parameters, the update parameters identifying if a modification included in the input should be applied to contents of the dynamic synchronization data object. The servers may also be configured to update the data record and the contents of the dynamic synchronization data object based, at least in part, on the determined update parameters, the updating including pushing the updated contents to at least one of the plurality of target data records.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a firmware updating method using a low-power wireless network, and more specifically, to a firmware updating method using a low-power wireless network, which is designed to upgrade a firmware installed on a terminal installed in a vehicle, such as a navigation system, by using a low-power wireless network.

Abstract: Systems and methods for routing requests to a plurality of server clusters are disclosed, especially in a workflow management context. A first server cluster handles requests concerning a first software version and a second server cluster responds to requests concerning a second version of that same software. Upon receiving a request to change default routing of requests, a configuration of a gateway router is updated and subsequent requests concerning the first software are routed to the second server cluster while subsequent request concerning the second software remain routed to the first server cluster. A first graphical user interface (GUI) is provided to be used in defining a series of steps in a workflow and to creating a secondary GUI that will be used when performing the series of steps. Tools for automation and data extraction during the workflow are provided and workflow state is tracked until completion of the workflow.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed that pertain to deploying immutable instances of a system. A computer system may maintain an active generation value that indicates an immutable instance of a database system that is permitted to write data to a database. The computer system may deploy a first immutable instance of the database system and update the active generation value to permit the first immutable instance to write data to the database. The computer system may receive a request to deploy a second immutable instance of the database system that includes an update not found in the first immutable instance. The computer system may deploy the second immutable instance and update the active generation value to cause the first immutable instance to cease writing data to the database and to permit the second immutable instance to write data to the database.

Abstract: A system and method for an eSync update agent is provided. The update agent can communicate with an eSync client, which receives software updates from an external server and transmits the software updates to the update agent. In turn, the update agent may use its programming to determine one or more aspects of the software update, such as when or whether to perform the software update on its associated electronic device and whether to rollback the update in response to a failure performing the software update on its associated electronic device. The update agent may also be tasked with performing one or both of data gathering from or device control of its associated electronic device. The various functions, including software updating, data gathering and device control, may be programmable and activatable, thereby tailoring the functions performed by the update agent to the lifecycle needs of its associated electronic device.

Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor and first non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a basic input/output system (BIOS) core comprising BIOS core firmware sufficient to execute features of a BIOS of the information handling system to a particular portion of BIOS execution and an extension agent. The extension agent may be configured to identify and enumerate a firmware volume of a second non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a BIOS extension comprising BIOS extension firmware for executing completion of BIOS execution from the particular portion of BIOS execution and in response to unavailability of the firmware volume of the second non-transitory computer-readable media, failover to and recover the BIOS extension from extended firmware information stored on a networked storage resource communicatively coupled to the information handling system.

Abstract: Systems and procedures are provided for validating an IHS (Information Handling System) as operating using only factory-provisioned firmware. During factory provisioning of the IHS, a signed inventory certificate is uploaded to the IHS that includes an inventory identifying firmware for use in the operation of the IHS. Upon delivery and initialization of the IHS, the inventory certificate is retrieved by a pre-boot validation process. An inventory of firmware used by hardware components of the IHS is then collected. The validation process compares the collected inventory of firmware against the inventory of factory-provisioned firmware from the inventory certificate in order to validate the IHS is operating using only factory-provisioned firmware. A validation failure is signaled when the comparison indicates that a hardware component is not operating using the factory-provisioned firmware specified in the inventory certificate.

Abstract: Systems and methods for deploying software updates in hybrid workspace environments are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: consolidate an Operating System (OS) and Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) inventory with a plurality of workspace inventories; resolve dependencies among a plurality of updates based upon the consolidated inventories to identify an order of deployment; and deploy the plurality of updates in the order of deployment.

Abstract: A merged infrastructure for manufacturing and lifecycle management of both hardware and software is disclosed. In various embodiments, a library comprising a superset of device drivers is stored, the superset including for each of a plurality of supported systems a corresponding set of device drivers for devices comprising that supported system. A context in which a processor is deployed is determined, the context being associated with a specific corresponding one of the plurality of supported systems. The library is used to provision based on the determined context at least a subset of devices accessible by the processor in the context in which the processor is deployed.

Abstract: Prior to an update of an operating system of a computing device, a configuration operation is performed with respect to a particular processor of the computing device, such that the particular processor is indicated to the operating system as being in an offline state while an application runs at the particular processor. The operating system is then updated. The update comprises a time interval in which the operating system is unavailable and the application performs one or more computations at the particular processor. After the update, the application is restarted.

Abstract: The embodiments described herein describe technologies for Module management, including Module creation and Module deployment to a target device in an operation phase of a manufacturing lifecycle of the target device in a cryptographic manager (CM) environment. One implementation includes a Root Authority (RA) device that receives a first command to create a Module and executes a Module Template to generate the Module in response to the first command. The RA device receives a second command to create a deployment authorization message. The Module and the deployment authorization message are deployed to an Appliance device. A set of instructions of the Module, when permitted by the deployment authorization message and executed by the Appliance device, results in a secure construction of a sequence of operations to securely provision a data asset to the target device.

Abstract: Edge application deployment in a network is provided. The network includes a plurality of edge sites with edge computing infrastructure. Edge application deployment is performed, including deploying a pseudo application instance (pApp) of the edge application at each edge site of a first group of edge sites of the plurality of edge sites, and deploying a real application instance (rApp) of the edge application at each edge site of a second group of one or more edge sites of the plurality of edge sites. The pApp is a lightweight, application-specific instance of the rApp with less application functionality than the rApp. Further, the first group of edge sites is larger than the second group, and a user device interaction with the edge application is through a selected pApp of the first group of edge sites to an rApp of the second group.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to securely booting firmware images. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving, by a memory device, a firmware update; validating, by the memory device, a signature associated with the firmware update; copying, by the memory device, an existing firmware image to an archive location, the archive location storing a plurality of firmware images sorted by version identifiers; booting, by the memory device, and executing the firmware update; and replacing, by the memory device, the firmware update with the existing firmware image stored in the archive location upon detecting an error while booting the firmware update.

Abstract: A recommendation system can be configured to provide tailored software update relevance information for deployed software. The recommendation engine can obtain running state information for a current version of software running on a device, as well as build data for each of the current version of the software and a new version of the software. The recommendation engine can obtain software version difference information based on the build data and determine, based on at least the software version difference information and the running state information, a number of functions in the current version of software that are directly impacted by the new version. The recommendation engine can cause relevance information derived from this determination to be displayed on a computing device, and/or the recommendation engine can automatically cause an update to the new version of the software to be applied or rejected based on the determination.

Abstract: A system and method for automatic, rapid, and auditable updates of digital contracts allows participants to make agreed upon changes to a digital contract that is auditable and fast, so as to improve security, as well as reduce maintenance and operations costs of the management and execution of digital contracts.

Abstract: An edge device management system comprising a plurality of edge devices is shown. Each device includes a processing circuit configured to provide, via a first edge device of the plurality of edge devices, remote upgrades for an application of a second edge device of the plurality of edge devices. The processing circuit is configured to control hardware security features of the second edge device. The processing circuit is configured to configure a software update package for the second edge device, the software update package comprising a plurality of different software updates. The processing circuit is configured to deploy one or more deployment management tools to manage the application on the second edge device.

Abstract: Systems and methods are included for managing persistent enrollment of a user device. The persistent enrollment can be controlled by an administrator at an administrator console. The administrator can enable or disable persistent enrollment for the user device at the admin console. A deployment agent can be provided to the user device. During the boot process, the deployment agent can verify the persistent enrollment status of the user device. The deployment agent can retrieve and install a software package for a management agent. The management agent can enroll the user device with an enterprise under a staging user profile. The management agent can install a provisioning package associated with the staging user profile. The management agent can receive user input login credentials. The management agent can change the ownership of the user device with the enterprise. The management agent can configure the user device for the user profile.

Abstract: A method for managing a client environment includes obtaining, by a predictor, a future state prediction request associated with an application upgrade on an emulation of a client device, wherein the application upgrade failed; in response to the future state prediction request: obtaining live data associated with the application upgrade; performing natural language processing on the live data to obtain processed live data; applying a future state prediction model to the processed live data to generate a future state prediction; and initiating the remediation of the application upgrade based on the future state prediction.

Abstract: An information processing device comprises one or more known hardware devices including a processor and memory. An intelligent test program is provided to drive the device to develop a smoke test for a target program the name, use and functionality of which is unknown to the test program. The intelligent test program can generate a report on the functionality of the target program and can capture call back functions associated with the target program in order to automatically develop a smoke test script file for use in subsequent smoke test runs on the device.

Abstract: A computer device receives a stream of event data which event data has the data about the event itself and a device or user identifier. One or the events is stored for different identifiers to be used as state. Two or more different scripts are run and the information about at least one event is shared by at least two different scripts.

Abstract: An air-conditioning system includes equipment, the equipment including one or more pieces of equipment, a high level device connected to the equipment and configured to control the equipment, a first communication unit configured to obtain, from an update management device that previously stores an update program for updating a program of the equipment, the update program, a second communication unit configured to transmit the update program to the equipment and obtain a pre-update program from the equipment, a storage device configured to store the update program and the pre-update program, and an update execution unit configured to update the program of the equipment, in which the update execution unit transmits the update program to the equipment and updates the program of the equipment, and when one of the one or more pieces of the equipment in which the program is updated does not operate normally, the update execution unit transmits the pre-update program to the one of the one or more pieces of the equi

Abstract: Presented herein are systems and methods for managing networked environments. A computer system may provide a user interface for configuring a plurality of groups of servers each hosting a resource for an application. The user interface may include: a first element configured to select, upon interaction, at least one group of servers from the plurality of groups of servers to which to install a patch for the application; a second element configured to identify, upon interaction, a first group of servers of the plurality of groups of servers to which to transfer network traffic associated with the application and communicated with a second group of servers of the plurality of groups of servers; and a third element configured to provide, upon interaction, one or more performance indicators for at least one of a plurality of functions of the application.

Abstract: A method for managing firmware of an information handling system may include receiving, by the information handling system, an update for a firmware of the information handling system. The information handling system may determine based, at least in part, on the received update, one or more firmware modules of the information handling system that are changed by the update. The information handling system may determine a location of each of the one or more firmware modules within one or more firmware volumes of the information handling system using an offset list including one or more offsets corresponding to the one or more firmware modules. The information handling system may update the one or more firmware modules based, at least in part, on the determined location of each of the one or more firmware modules within the one or more firmware volumes.

Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for creating and managing virtual appliances. A command to create a virtual machine image for a hosted instance of an application image is received. The virtual machine image is created in response to receiving the command. The virtual machine image can include an operating system; a container orchestration service configured to host the instance of the application image; and a configuration service. The configuration service can be configured to at least install a management agent in response to a first boot of the virtual machine and configure the management agent to download and install the application image.

Abstract: Monitoring the integrity of industrial automation systems is provided. For example, a negative impact on integrity caused by unauthorized access should be identified. This is made possible by comparing state data which describe the operating state of the industrial automation system, with sensor data which describe an environmental influence of the automation system.

Abstract: An online system receives information including a description of an event occurring in a mobile application and user identifying information associated with a user of the mobile application associated with the event via an SDK incorporated into the mobile application code of the mobile application. The online system determines whether the description corresponds to information maintained in the online system describing types of events capable of occurring in the mobile application. If the description corresponds to information describing a type of event capable of occurring in the mobile application, the online system logs the type of event in association with the user identifying information. Otherwise, the online system predicts a type of event corresponding to the event occurring in the mobile application based at least in part on the information received at the online system and logs the predicted type of event in association with the user identifying information.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for providing a multi-tenant application execution environment that provides an object metadata service for managing application configuration in the multi-tenant environment. In one embodiment, a system has an application manager, a bundle manager, and a deployment manager. The application manager captures application metadata for a corresponding version of an application and defines a corresponding bundle which contains metadata that configures the version of the application. The bundle manager validates each bundle and stores the validated bundle in a bundle library in a data storage device. The deployment manager retrieves a master schema and one or more of the bundles from the bundle library and installs the retrieved master schema and the retrieved bundles, generating a tenant schema which is accessible by a corresponding tenant of the multi-tenant environment that has subscribed to the version of the application.

Abstract: A method of synchronizing container image lists is provided. A first container image list having first container images is accessed from a remote source. The first container images listed in the first container image list include a first tag and a first digest. A second container image list having second container images is accessed from a cloud-computing system registry. The second container images listed in the second container image list include a second tag and a second digest. Container images in the accessed container image lists are compared with each other. The comparison includes comparing the first tag with the second tag and, based on the tag comparison, the first digest with the second digest. The first container image list is synchronized with the second container image list based on the comparison of the container images.

Abstract: A customer having a deployment in a resource provider environment can request one or more changes to the deployment using one or more application programming interface (API) requests. Along with the one or more changes, the customer can specify one or more metrics or behaviors, or a function thereof, to be monitored for the deployment for at least a period of time after the change is implemented. The customer can also specify acceptable or unacceptable values or ranges for the metrics. If the value of a specified metric is determined during the monitoring to have an unacceptable value, the change can be automatically rolled back or undone. The roll back in some embodiments takes the form of a change in state to yet another state that will cause the deployment to operate similar to a state before the change was implemented.

Abstract: A method includes providing a relational database and at least one schema describing tables of the relational database with columns of the relational database, providing an application executing read/write or delete jobs in the relational database where the application is running in a cloud environment, upgrading the application running in the cloud environment to a new version of the application. The application uses pods to perform the steps of the upgrading. The method includes replacing an old version of the application using an intermediate version of the application, where the intermediate version of the application behaves differently depending on values of definitions in a new supportive column created in the relational database, and replacing the intermediate version of the application with pods using the new version of the application.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to monitoring and detecting security vulnerabilities in software code to be executed in a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) environment. A computing platform may receive, via the communication interface, an indication of a user request to deploy a code in a CI/CD environment, in which the user request includes user account information and the code. The computing platform may then analyze the code to identify a presence of one or more potential vulnerabilities in the code, including executing a security process on the code. Based on identifying one or more potential vulnerabilities, the computing platform may thereafter determine an alert action and send, via the communication interface, to the developer computing platform, the alert action.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for migrating data from a first storage system to a second storage system. That data is for a process (e.g., a virtual machine, application, or some other process) operating on a computer system that is separate from the first storage system and the second storage system. That data is stored according to data subsets that are each exclusive of each other. As each data set is migrated, access to the data set by the process is precluded, but access for the remaining data sets is not affected. Once the data migration is complete, access to the data set by the process is restored.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for container lifecycle management is provided. The embodiment may include registering a topology for a plurality of deployments in a container orchestration platform. The embodiment may include detecting a rolling update to a deployment of the plurality of deployments. The embodiment may include assuming ownership of at least one previous version pod of the deployment. The embodiment may include creating network routing rules for the at least one previous version pod. The embodiment may include routing network packets to the at least one previous version pod based on the created network routing rules.

Abstract: Client machines running game executables of a video game(s) may utilize a file system proxy component that is configured to track read operations made by the game executable during a game session, to generate access data based on the tracked read operations, and to report the access data to a remote system. This telemetry approach allows the remote system to collect access data reported by multiple client machines, to catalogue the access data according to client system configuration, and to analyze the access data to generate data that is usable by client machines to implement various game-related features including, without limitation, “instant play” of video games, discarding of unused blocks of game data to free up local memory resources, and/or local prefetching of game data for reducing latency during gameplay.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a method for running a virtual manager scheduler for scheduling activities for virtual machines. The method may include: defining a schedule for one or more activities to be executed for a virtual machine; applying an adjustment to the schedule in accordance with feedback information received via a virtual machine client aggregating the feedback information from a plurality of virtual machine clients, each being related to a virtual machine, per scheduled activity type; and determining of a group adjustment for a determined group of the virtual machine clients based on a function of the feedback information of the plurality of virtual machine clients.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a microcontroller, a live firmware update (LFU) command from an external host; and downloading, by the microcontroller, an image of a new version of firmware responsive to the LFU command. During a first time period, the method includes initializing only variables contained in the new version that are not contained in an old version of firmware. During a second time period, the method includes updating one or more of an interrupt vector table, a function pointer, and/or a stack pointer responsive to the new version. The second time period begins responsive to completing initialization of the variables.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and techniques utilize reinforcement learning to efficiently schedule a sequence of jobs for execution by one or more processing threads. A first sequence of execution jobs associated with rendering a target frame of a sequence of frames is received. One or more reward metrics related to rendering the target frame are selected. A modified sequence of execution jobs for rendering the target frame is generated, such as by reordering the first sequence of execution jobs. The modified sequence is evaluated with respect to the selected reward metric(s); and rendering the target frame is initiated based at least in part on the evaluating of the modified sequence with respect to the one or more selected reward metric(s).