AI Data Navigation for Multi-Database Resource Queries

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge lies in efficiently managing, navigating, and visualizing large volumes of complex data related to natural resource operations, particularly in industries like oilfield services, where data is often dispersed across multiple databases, making it difficult for customers to access relevant information about equipment and services.

Innovation Solution

A navigation system that employs AI and machine learning to retrieve, group, and process data from various sources, assign identifiers, and generate responses to user queries, providing both textual and graphical representations, including audio and video, to enhance data management, navigation, and visualization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If data is stored in multiple databases for natural resource operations, then data coverage and completeness are improved, but data accessibility and ease of retrieval deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata coverageVSAvoiddata accessibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges data from multiple disparate databases into a unified data structure with standardized schemas. This allows the system to maintain comprehensive data coverage from various sources while providing single-point access through a common interface, thereby improving both data accessibility and ease of retrieval without sacrificing completeness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary layer (unified data structure and navigation system) between the multiple databases and the end users. This intermediary standardizes data formats and provides consistent access methods, allowing users to retrieve data easily without needing to navigate multiple database systems directly

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Quantity of substance

If large volumes of complex data are collected from multiple sources, then information completeness is improved, but data processing time and computational resources worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the large volume of complex data into structured units organized within a unified data structure. By dividing data into manageable, standardized components with defined schemas, the system can process and navigate the information more efficiently, reducing computational overhead and processing time while maintaining complete information coverage

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Device complexity

If traditional data navigation methods are used for complex datasets, then system simplicity is maintained, but user efficiency and data retrieval speed deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem simplicityVSAvoiduser efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic navigation capabilities that adapt to user needs and data characteristics. The unified data structure enables flexible querying and navigation paths that can be optimized in real-time based on the specific data retrieval requirements, significantly improving user efficiency while maintaining reasonable system complexity through standardized interfaces

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20260079972A1Systems and methods for data navigation
Publication Date: 2026.03.19 SCHLUMBERGER TECH CORP
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AI summary

A system, includes a processing system comprising an artificial intelligence (AI) engine. The processing system is configured to receive a set of data from a data source, divide the set of data into one or more subsets of data, transmit the one or more subsets of data to the AI engine, transmit one or more queries to the AI engine to elicit search and identification of one or more responses based on a data set comprising the one or more subsets of data, wherein the one or more responses include a text-based response and a graphical response associated with the text-based response, and transmit the text-based response and the graphical response to a graphical user interface for presentation on a display of an electronic device comprising the graphical user interface.