Customized Action Links for Distributed Computing Workflows
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Solution Overview
Problem
Customers using distributed computing systems often face challenges in performing complex data management tasks due to the lack of necessary tools and knowledge, requiring service providers to offer customized action links that can execute specific jobs or workflows without requiring full understanding of the distributed system or API calls.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of customized action links, which are generated, managed, and provided by service providers, allowing customers to select and execute macros or workflows for tasks like data backup, using a marketplace of action links categorized by type, with metadata for visualization and rollback options, enabling customers to perform complex operations without full knowledge of the system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If customers directly manage distributed computing resources using API calls, then operational control and flexibility are improved, but the complexity of operation and understanding required increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces action links as intermediary elements between customers and the distributed computing system. These action links encapsulate complex API calls and workflows, allowing customers to perform data management operations without directly interacting with the underlying system complexity. The service provider acts as a mediator who creates and manages these action links on behalf of customers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates simplified copies or representations of complex distributed computing operations through action links. Instead of requiring customers to understand and execute actual API calls, the system provides actionable link representations that replicate the effect of complex operations in a simplified, user-friendly format.
2Ease of operation
If service providers offer customized action links for complex workflows, then ease of customer operation is improved, but the complexity of service provider management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex workflow creation process into manageable components. Service providers can break down complex distributed computing operations into discrete action links that can be independently created, managed, and combined. This segmentation allows providers to handle complexity in a modular fashion rather than managing monolithic complex workflows.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables service providers to perform preliminary actions by pre-configuring and storing action links that encapsulate complex workflows. Instead of managing complexity in real-time during customer operations, providers prepare and validate action links in advance, reducing the management burden during actual customer usage.
3Ease of operation
If action links are made freely accessible, then ease of use and adoption are improved, but the ability to control and manage access to distributed resources worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic access control for action links, allowing the system to adaptively manage who can access and execute which action links based on customer credentials, permissions, and contextual factors. Action links are not statically public or private but can dynamically adjust their accessibility based on the interacting user's authorization level.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the service provider monitors and controls action link execution based on customer identity and permissions. The system receives feedback about which customers attempt to use which action links and can enforce access control policies, ensuring that resource access remains reliable and authorized even as action links become more accessible.
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AI summary
Customized action links may be provided to users to cause performance of computing resource jobs that may include more than one resource operation. For example, resource operations associated with performing a job or action of a distributed system may be determined. One or more instructions may then be formulated for performing at least a subset of the determined resource operations. A link to replay the formulated instructions may then be provided to another system or one or more users.