Automated Data Center Tag Management for Accurate Asset Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing data center management systems face challenges in accurately associating data tags with data center assets, leading to errors and inefficiencies in managing and monitoring these assets due to user errors, misdefined keys, and lack of correlation between data tags.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for generating, registering, and managing data tags within a data center asset environment, utilizing a data tag management operation to reduce errors, coalesce similar semantic concepts, and correlate related tags, enhancing data center monitoring and management operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual data tagging is performed by users, then data tags can be associated with data center assets, but user errors and misdefined keys lead to inaccuracies in tag association

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of data taggingVSAvoidaccuracy of tag association

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service automated data tagging by extracting asset information from monitoring data and automatically generating and associating tags with assets, eliminating the need for manual user input while ensuring accurate tag association through systematic processing

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where tag association results are validated and corrected through continuous monitoring and management operations, allowing the system to learn from and correct tagging errors while maintaining operational simplicity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If data tags are manually created and managed, then flexibility in tag definition is maintained, but errors in data tagging increase and efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveflexibility in tag definitionVSAvoidefficiency of asset management

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides a universal automated tagging framework that can handle multiple asset types and tag categories through a single process, maintaining adaptability across different data center assets while significantly improving productivity through automation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts tagging parameters and tag definitions based on asset characteristics and monitoring data, maintaining flexibility in tag definition while improving efficiency through automated parameter optimization and error reduction

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If traditional asset monitoring methods are used, then existing systems can operate, but misdefined keys and lack of correlation between data tags reduce monitoring accuracy

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvereliability of asset monitoringVSAvoidinformation accuracy in asset tracking

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges data tag management with asset monitoring operations, combining tag generation, association, and validation into a unified process that improves reliability by ensuring consistent and accurate tag-information correlation throughout the monitoring lifecycle

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary data tag management operation that acts as a mediator between raw monitoring data and asset information, validating and correlating tags to prevent information loss and improve monitoring accuracy through systematic verification

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Device complexity

If no centralized tag management operation is implemented, then system complexity is reduced, but errors in data tagging persist and asset management efficiency is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecomplexity of tag management systemVSAvoidaccuracy of asset management

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments tag management into distinct automated operations (tag generation, association, validation) that can be independently executed and managed, reducing overall system complexity while improving reliability through modular error prevention and correction mechanisms

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12455864B2Data center monitoring and management operation including a data tag management operation

Publication Date: 2025.10.28 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center monitoring and management operation. The data center monitoring and management operation includes: generating a tag for an object within a data center asset, the tag for the object associating a contextual meaning with the object; registering the tag when the tag is generated; storing the tag within a tag storage repository when the tag is registered; and, managing an aspect of the tag via a data tag management operation.