Analytics Engine Optimizes Program Installation Timing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Information handling systems face challenges in optimizing the timing of program installations and process performances to enhance customer experience and data management efficiency, as existing systems lack effective analytics to predict and manage delays and potential disruptions.

Innovation Solution

An information handling system incorporating a delay controller with an analytics engine that analyzes telemetry data to calculate a confidence index and generate recommendations for delaying or scheduling program installations, thereby improving data management and customer experience by optimizing timing based on real-time and historical data analysis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If program installation is delayed based on analytics engine recommendations, then system reliability and customer experience are improved, but installation time and productivity are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem stabilityVSAvoidinstallation speed
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The analytics engine performs preliminary analysis of telemetry data before program installation to predict potential failures and generate recommendations. This advance preparation allows the system to identify and address potential issues before they manifest as catastrophic failures, improving reliability without completely blocking installation progress.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously collects telemetry data during installation and operation, feeds it back to the analytics engine, and uses the generated confidence indices to adjust installation timing decisions. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables dynamic optimization between reliability and productivity based on real-time system state.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If telemetry data analysis is performed to generate installation recommendations, then decision accuracy is improved, but data processing time and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprediction accuracyVSAvoidsystem architecture
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The analytics engine automatically collects, processes, and analyzes telemetry data without requiring external intervention. The system self-manages the complexity of data processing by implementing built-in confidence index calculations and recommendation generation, reducing the need for additional external analytical systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The analytics engine serves multiple functions: collecting telemetry data, analyzing system state, predicting potential failures, generating recommendations, and calculating confidence indices. This multi-functional approach consolidates complexity into a single integrated component rather than requiring separate systems for each function.

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

Data Source

PatentUS11409543B2Method and apparatus for improving data management in an information handling system
Publication Date: 2022.08.09 DELL PROD LP
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AI summary

An information handling system includes a delay controller having an analytics engine configured to analyze telemetry data associated with an installation of a program, to calculate a confidence index based upon the analyzed telemetry data, and to generate a recommendation corresponding to the calculated confidence index. A download controller receives an end-user recommendation selection, and delays the installation of the program based upon a delay time in the received end-user recommendation selection.