Cognitive Search Metadata Segmentation for DevOps

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Solution Overview

Problem

The DevOps process for cognitive search solutions is hindered by the need for maintaining duplicate size environments in development and production, leading to increased costs and performance issues as the document collection grows.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that optimizes cognitive searches by analyzing queries against an initial body of work using scorers to identify deployment-ready content, allowing for enhanced relevancy and minimizing the need for duplicate environments by using metadata to differentiate production-ready and development documents, and dynamically updating metadata based on performance evaluation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If duplicate size environments are maintained for development and production, then exact copies of content and training data can be promoted, but costs increase and performance is adversely impacted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironment consistencyVSAvoiddocument collection size
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the document collection by adding metadata fields to identify which documents are production-ready versus development or validation documents. This allows the system to logically separate environments without physically duplicating the entire document collection, thereby maintaining environment consistency while reducing the quantity of stored data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of maintaining exact duplicate copies of the entire document collection in both development and production environments, the patent uses metadata tags to indicate which documents are ready for deployment. This eliminates the need for physical copying of large datasets while ensuring that production receives the correct version of documents.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Reliability

If duplicate size environments are maintained for development and production, then exact copies of content and training data can be promoted, but costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironment consistencyVSAvoidcost
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the document collection by adding metadata fields to identify which documents are production-ready versus development or validation documents. This allows the system to logically separate environments without physically duplicating the entire document collection, thereby maintaining environment consistency while reducing the quantity of stored data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of maintaining exact duplicate copies of the entire document collection in both development and production environments, the patent uses metadata tags to indicate which documents are ready for deployment. This eliminates the need for physical copying of large datasets while ensuring that production receives the correct version of documents.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Reliability

If duplicate size environments are maintained for development and production, then exact copies of content and training data can be promoted, but performance is adversely impacted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironment consistencyVSAvoidsearch performance
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the document collection by adding metadata fields to identify which documents are production-ready versus development or validation documents. This allows the system to logically separate environments without physically duplicating the entire document collection, thereby maintaining environment consistency while reducing the quantity of stored data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of maintaining exact duplicate copies of the entire document collection in both development and production environments, the patent uses metadata tags to indicate which documents are ready for deployment. This eliminates the need for physical copying of large datasets while ensuring that production receives the correct version of documents.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS11275786B2Implementing enhanced DevOps process for cognitive search solutions
Publication Date: 2022.03.15 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

A method and system are provided for implementing enhanced cognitive searches optimized to integrate deployment with development testing. An initial body of works is ingested into a system capable of answering questions. A series of queries is analyzed against the initial body of works utilizing a set of scorers utilizing criteria to form assessments, wherein each scorer uses the criteria against the query and the initial body of works to form the assessment. The assessments are analyzed to determine a usefulness of a set of entries in the initial body of works. Content are deployed using the identified selected first set of entries as deployment ready, enabling enhanced cognitive search results.