Analytic Insertion Mechanism for Real-Time Data Confidence Fabric Annotation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Machine learning algorithms require substantial annotated data to learn and improve, but manual annotation is slow and costly, and existing automated methods require significant infrastructure, making it challenging to efficiently annotate data for use in computing systems like data confidence fabrics.

Innovation Solution

An analytic insertion mechanism that annotates data unsupervisedly as it is ingested into data confidence fabrics, using feedback from machine learning algorithms to improve annotation confidence scores and adapt to multiple applications, allowing for real-time annotation and data utilization by machine learning algorithms.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual annotation is used to annotate data for machine learning, then data quality and trustworthiness are improved, but annotation speed and productivity deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata trustworthinessVSAvoidannotation speed
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-annotation by automatically generating analytic values and confidence scores for data without human intervention. The analytic insertion mechanism autonomously processes incoming data, extracts relevant features, and assigns metadata tags, enabling the system to serve its own annotation needs while maintaining both quality and speed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the state of data by inserting analytic values and confidence scores as new parameters. This transformation converts raw data into annotated data with embedded metadata, thereby improving data trustworthiness and usability for machine learning applications without requiring manual annotation processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If automated annotation methods are used to increase annotation speed, then productivity is improved, but infrastructure complexity and costs worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveannotation speedVSAvoidinfrastructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The analytic insertion mechanism is designed to be universally applicable across multiple data types and machine learning applications. It performs multiple functions including data analysis, metadata generation, confidence scoring, and quality assessment within a single integrated system, thereby achieving high annotation productivity without proportionally increasing infrastructure complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback loops where machine learning algorithms provide information about data quality and annotation effectiveness. This feedback is used to continuously improve the analytic insertion mechanism, allowing the system to adapt and optimize its performance without requiring complex external infrastructure or manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Speed

If data is annotated in real-time during ingestion, then data utilization speed is improved, but processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata utilization speedVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs annotation actions in advance during the data ingestion phase rather than waiting for separate processing stages. By inserting analytic values and confidence scores immediately as data enters the system, it prepares data for immediate utilization by machine learning algorithms, achieving real-time processing without significantly increasing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12106185B2Increasing DCF confidence for analytic value
Publication Date: 2024.10.01 EMC IP HLDG CO LLC
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AI summary

Aspects of annotating data are disclosed. As data is ingested to a data confidence fabric, analytic values, which includes tags or annotations, are attached to or associated with the data by an analytic insertion mechanism. The analytic values allow the data to be used by applications including machine learning algorithms immediately. Feedback from the applications allow the analytic insertion mechanism to improve and generate more valuable analytic values and to generate higher confidence scores for the analytic values.