Apparatus for software product' upgrade and downgrade of electric equipment from web
OwnerTadashi Ohashiinventor
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Electric equipment is very high-performance so that system sustainability tends to be downgraded. Once a user gets the system, it is very difficult to catch up with latest version of hardware functions and software products from marketplaces. To solve the problem, this upgrade and downgrade invention must be applied to electric equipment is able to access dynamically to hardware functions in the form of emulator and software products through web Linked Open Data (LOD). The invented means make it possible to upgrade or downgrade for the latest version or old version of hardware functions superseded by emulators and software products which are directly loaded into storage component like FPGA by means of web LOD. The system sustainability of proposed electric equipment with Linked Open Data can be performed by Sustainability Manager which deals with operating system, emulator, firmware and applications with results of software management information.
An apparatus has means that software composition hierarchy of electric equipment is explained by ontology for software products group information including software product element information such as software product name, version, performance conditions, program size and software product's entity (ex. executable format) as software product's element data are put on web, these elements are interconnected as LOD (Linked Open Data) by RDF (Resource Description Framework) or OWL (Ontology Web Language), has means that whole or part of hardware of electric equipment can be superseded by firmware stored in storage component such as FPGA (Field Programming Gate Array), has means that make it possible to upgrade or downgrade of system through Linked Open Data by endpoint server handling question sentence such as SPARQL, has means that system compatibility to verify logical performance conditions between necessary software elements on the side of web or in the side of electric equipment, has means that software products are downloaded into electric equipment and has means that software product's upgrade or downgrade from web to electric equipment using means to reconfiguration whole or part of electric equipment's software instead of backup data originally installed software products on web.
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