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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12260206-B2
Application number	US-202217823879-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 31, 2022
Priority date	Dec 15, 2021
Publication date	Mar 25, 2025
Grant date	Mar 25, 2025

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.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

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

Assignees

• Toshiba Kk

Inventors

• Takumi Shinya
• Shinke Yurie
• Koike Ryuiti
• Sano Fumihiko
• Kanai Jun

Classifications

• G06F8/70

  Software maintenance or management · CPC title

• G06F11/1433

  during software upgrading · CPC title

• G06F8/65 Primary

  Updates (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57) · CPC title