Collaborative Modeling Environment with Tag-Based Search
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Solution Overview
Problem
Model designers often lack familiarity with certain model components, leading to inaccurate assumptions and incomplete models, as they may not have the necessary information or expertise to design complex systems like wastewater treatment plant pumps.
Innovation Solution
A computer-readable medium with instructions for searching, retrieving, and sharing models, including extracting information such as port characteristics, integration types, and author reviews, to facilitate accurate model creation and sharing within a collaborative modeling environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a model designer designs a portion of a model with which they do not have high level of familiarity, then the model design process can be completed, but the model accuracy deteriorates due to incorrect assumptions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system (model library and search interface) that mediates between the model designer and the unfamiliar model components. The designer searches for and retrieves pre-defined accurate models from the library, which serve as intermediaries to replace their own potentially inaccurate designs, thus resolving the contradiction between completing the design and maintaining accuracy.
2Manufacturing precision
If comprehensive information about model components is provided to model designers, then model accuracy improves, but the complexity of the modeling system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the comprehensive modeling system into distinct modular components: a model library containing pre-defined models, a search interface for querying models, and a retrieval mechanism. This segmentation allows comprehensive information to be organized in structured, searchable segments rather than overwhelming the designer with undifferentiated complexity, thus resolving the contradiction between providing comprehensive information and maintaining system simplicity.
3Productivity
If model designers make assumptions about unfamiliar model components, then the design process continues, but the reliability of the model deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-defining accurate models and their parameters in a model library before the design process begins. When designers need unfamiliar components, they retrieve these pre-prepared models rather than making assumptions during the design process. This preliminary preparation ensures model reliability is maintained while keeping the design process continuous, as designers can quickly search and insert ready-made components.
Data Source
AI summary
A system may receive a model, extract information from the model, form a group of tags using the extracted information, and associate the group of tags with the model. The system may further receive a search query including one or more sequences of characters anddetermine whether to provide the model in a list of models created for the search query, based on the one or more sequences of characters and the group of tags.