Method, system and server for self-healing of electronic apparatus

• US 10,397,281 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2018
• Issued: 08/27/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Chih-Ming
• Primary Examiner(s): Song, Hee K
• Application Number:
  US16/049,820
• Publication Number:
  US 20180337959A1
• Time in Patent Office: 392 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1416 Event detection, e.g. attack signature detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/205 involving negotiation or determination of the one or more network security mechanisms to be used, e.g. by negotiation between the client and the server or between peers or by selection according to the capabilities of the entities involved negotiation of communication capabilities H04L69/24

Abstract

A method, a system and a server for self-healing of an electronic apparatus are provided. In the method, the components installed in the electronic apparatus are sequentially called and checked to update each component. Then, a self-diagnosis is executed on the electronic apparatus to produce a diagnosis result and the diagnosis result is sent to a server. The server analyzes the diagnosis result, accordingly sets at least one policy for healing the electronic apparatus and sends the at least one policy back to the electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus transforms the policy into at least one rule adapted for itself and performs the self-healing according to the rules.

Claims

1. A self-healing method of an electronic apparatus, adapted to execute self-healing when at least one component in an electronic apparatus is updated, and comprising:

obtaining a clone of components installed in the electronic apparatus;

for each of the components in the clone;

in response to the component in the clone having an update, executing the update to the component in the clone; and

updating the component corresponding to the update in the electronic apparatus by using the clone in response to a sanity of the update being confirmed;

executing a self-diagnosis on the updated electronic apparatus to produce a diagnosis result;

obtaining at least one policy based on the diagnosis result for healing the electronic apparatus; and

transforming the at least one policy into at least one rule adapted for the electronic apparatus, and performing the self-healing according to the rules.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein for each of the components in the clone, before the step of updating the component corresponding to the update in the electronic apparatus by using the clone, the method further comprises:

performing a simulation and a testing on the updated component in the clone to confirm the sanity of the update.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein for each of the components in the clone, in response to the component having the update, the step of executing the update to the component in the clone further comprises;

pushing a context of the component to a stack;

executing the update to the component; and

extracting the context from the stack and modifying the context.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein for each of the components in the clone, before the step of updating the component corresponding to the update in the electronic apparatus by using the clone, the method further comprises:

performing a simulation on the modified context and the update by using the clone to confirm the sanity of the update.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein for each of the components in the clone, the step of updating the component corresponding to the update in the electronic apparatus by using the clone comprises:

updating the component corresponding to the modified context and the update in the electronic apparatus by using the clone.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein for each of the components in the clone, while updating the component corresponding to the update in the electronic apparatus by using the clone, the method further comprises:

suspending programs running on the electronic apparatus.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the step of obtaining the clone of the components installed in the electronic apparatus, the method further comprises:

sequentially calling the components in the clone to check whether each of the components has an update.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the step of sequentially calling the components in the clone comprises:

sorting the components according to at least one parameter of each of the components, so as to sequentially call the components, wherein the parameter comprises a risk level, a severity or a priority.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of obtaining at least one policy based on the diagnosis result for healing the electronic apparatus comprises:

sending the diagnosis result to a server, wherein the server analyzes the diagnosis result to accordingly set the at least one policy for healing the electronic apparatus; and

receiving the at least one policy from the server.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of transforming the at least one policy into at least one rule adapted for the electronic apparatus and performing the self-healing according to the rules comprises:

merging the rules with a function of the corresponding component, covering the function of the corresponding component with the rules, or adding the rules after removing the function of the corresponding component.

11. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a communication interface;

a processor, configured to;

obtain a clone of components installed in the electronic apparatus;

for each of the components in the clone;

in response to the component in the clone having an update, execute the update to the component in the clone; and

update the component corresponding to the update in the electronic apparatus by using the clone in response to a sanity of the update being confirmed;

execute a self-diagnosis on the updated electronic apparatus to produce a diagnosis result;

obtain at least one policy based on the diagnosis result for healing the electronic apparatus through the communication interface; and

transform the at least one policy into at least one rule adapted for the electronic apparatus, and performing the self-healing according to the rules.

12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein for each of the components in the clone, before updating the component corresponding to the update in the electronic apparatus by using the clone, the processor further performs a simulation and a testing on the updated component in the clone to confirm the sanity of the update.

13. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein for each of the components in the clone, in response to the component having the update, the processor further pushes a context of the component to a stack, executes the update to the component, extracts the context from the stack, and modifies the context.

14. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein for each of the components in the clone, before updating the component corresponding to the update in the electronic apparatus by using the clone, the processor further performs a simulation on the modified context and the update by using the clone to confirm the sanity of the update.

15. The electronic device according to claim 13, wherein for each of the components in the clone, the processor updates the component corresponding to the modified context and the update in the electronic apparatus by using the clone.

16. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein for each of the components in the clone, while updating the component corresponding to the update in the electronic apparatus by using the clone, the processor further suspends programs running on the electronic apparatus.

17. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein after obtaining the clone of the components installed in the electronic apparatus, the processor further sequentially calls the components in the clone to check whether each of the components has an update.

18. The electronic device according to claim 17, wherein the processor sorts the components according to at least one parameter of each of the components, so as to sequentially call the components, wherein the parameter comprises a risk level, a severity or a priority.

19. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the processor sends the diagnosis result to a server through the communication interface, wherein the server analyzes the diagnosis result to accordingly set the at least one policy for healing the electronic apparatus, and wherein the processor receives the at least one policy from the server through the communication interface.

20. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the processor merges the rules with a function of the corresponding component, covers the function of the corresponding component with the rules, or adds the rules after removing the function of the corresponding component.