Integrated Computing System Configuration Engine for Rule Validation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional integrated computing system configuration systems face challenges in efficiently customizing and integrating multiple components due to complex and large rule sets, frequent component changes, and dependencies, leading to time-consuming and resource-intensive configuration processes.
Innovation Solution
An integrated computing system configuration system that uses an engine to receive component specifications, abstract manufacturer-specific information, and validate components for interoperability and architectural standards, reducing the number and complexity of rules required, enabling faster customization and integration of components while avoiding obsolete components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional integrated computing system configuration systems use detailed component specifications and comprehensive rule sets to ensure architectural standards compliance, then the reliability and correctness of the configuration is improved, but the device complexity and time required for configuration increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary engine that acts as a mediator between component specifications and architectural standards. This engine automatically validates components against rules, manages dependencies, and performs corrective operations, thereby reducing the complexity burden on users while maintaining configuration correctness through systematic rule enforcement.
Solution Approach 2:
The configuration system performs self-validation and self-correction operations. The engine automatically detects rule violations, determines appropriate corrective actions, and implements fixes without requiring manual intervention, thereby maintaining high reliability while reducing operational complexity for users.
2Manufacturing precision
If comprehensive rule validation is performed on all components to ensure architectural standards are met, then the configuration quality is improved, but the time required for configuration processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The engine performs preliminary validation checks on component specifications before full configuration processing. By pre-identifying obvious rule violations and filtering components that clearly fail architectural standards, the system reduces the time required for comprehensive validation while maintaining configuration quality through subsequent detailed checking.
Solution Approach 2:
The validation process operates continuously throughout the configuration workflow rather than as a separate batch process. The engine validates components incrementally as they are added or modified, maintaining configuration quality through constant checking while reducing total configuration time by avoiding repeated full-validations.
3Ease of operation
If the system performs automatic corrective operations to fix rule violations, then the ease of operation is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The configuration system performs self-correction by automatically detecting rule violations and implementing fixes without user intervention. The engine analyzes violations, determines appropriate corrective actions from predefined options, and applies fixes autonomously, thereby improving ease of operation while containing complexity within the automated engine rather than requiring complex user workflows.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback loops where the engine continuously monitors configuration state, detects rule violations, and triggers corrective operations. This feedback mechanism automates the correction process, improving ease of operation by eliminating manual troubleshooting while managing complexity through structured feedback handling within the engine.
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AI summary
An integrated computing system configuration system includes a computing system that executes an engine to receive component specifications for each of one or more components supplied by a plurality of suppliers, and receive user input for selecting a subset of the components to be implemented in a customized integrated computing system by generating a base integrated computing system configuration that comprises the component specifications of the subset of the components. The engine may then determine whether at least one component meets a rule using the component specification associated with the at least one component, the rule specifying an architectural standard level to be provided by the at least one component, and when the at least one component does not meet the rule, perform one or more corrective operations such that the rule is met.