Cloud Configuration Guidance Tool Using Hybrid Recommender

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing solutions for generating proposed cloud solutions lack guidance for users during the configuration process, leading to potential over- or under-configuring relative to the entity's requirements.

Innovation Solution

A guidance tool utilizing a hybrid recommender system that provides recommendations to users based on their selections and past configurations, combining collaborative filtering and content-based filtering algorithms to offer tailored suggestions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If a guidance tool with hybrid recommender system is implemented, then configuration accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconfiguration accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the recommendation generation into two distinct modules: collaborative filtering component and content-based filtering component. Each module handles specific aspects of the recommendation task independently, allowing the system to achieve high configuration accuracy while managing complexity through modular architecture. The collaborative filtering module analyzes user behavior patterns, while the content-based module evaluates solution characteristics, and their results are integrated to produce final recommendations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Manufacturing precision

If personalized recommendations are provided based on user behavior and solution characteristics, then configuration precision is improved, but information processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconfiguration precisionVSAvoiddata processing volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the most relevant features and data points needed for recommendation generation. Instead of processing all available user data and solution information, the collaborative filtering component extracts key user behavior patterns, while the content-based filtering component extracts critical solution characteristics. This selective extraction reduces data processing volume while maintaining high configuration precision by focusing on the most impactful factors.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Productivity

If real-time recommendations are generated during configuration, then user productivity is improved, but computational load increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconfiguration speedVSAvoidcomputational load
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSPower

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary processing of user data and solution information before real-time recommendation generation. During the configuration process, the collaborative filtering and content-based filtering modules have already established user profiles and solution models in advance. When real-time recommendations are needed, the system only needs to query and integrate these pre-processed data structures, significantly reducing computational load while maintaining fast response times that improve user productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12267214B2Guidance tool for configuring cloud solutions
Publication Date: 2025.04.01 HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEV LP
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AI summary

In certain embodiments, a method includes receiving, in association with a configuration of a proposed cloud solution, a selection of a first cloud solution aspect made by a user of a guidance tool, and generating, using a hybrid recommender system, a recommendation for a subsequent selection of a second cloud solution aspect of the configuration of the proposed cloud solution. The hybrid recommender system may include a collaborative filtering system and a content-based filtering system, and may generate the recommendation according to information that includes user information, prior configuration information, and the selection. The method further includes providing the recommendation to the user via a user interface of the guidance tool; receiving the subsequent selection; and generating, by the guidance tool, a proposed cloud solution output based at least in part on the selection and the subsequent selection.