Content Object Readiness Checker for Migration

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Solution Overview

Problem

In content management systems, the existing readiness checking processes for data migration and archiving are time-consuming and inefficient, as they often occur during off-hours without human intervention, making it difficult to determine the number of content objects to be migrated and requiring significant time windows, which can lead to resource conflicts and inefficiencies.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for movement readiness checking that determines whether each content object is ready for migration or archiving by setting a movement readiness indicator, allowing for pre-checking outside of the migration window, thereby reducing the time required for the migration process and enabling administrators to review candidate objects before migration.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If readiness checking is performed during the migration window, then data consistency is ensured, but the migration time window increases and productivity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata consistencyVSAvoidmigration speed

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs readiness checking before the migration window begins by setting movement readiness indicators on candidate content objects. This preliminary action ensures data consistency is verified in advance, allowing the migration process itself to proceed without interruption for consistency checks, thereby maintaining both reliability and productivity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If migration is scheduled during off-hours, then resource conflicts are reduced, but administrators cannot review candidate objects and loss of information increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresource availabilityVSAvoidreview capability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates a list or representation of candidate content objects with their movement readiness indicators before migration. Administrators can review this copied information during off-hours without affecting the actual migration process, preserving review capability while maintaining resource availability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

3Productivity

If migration time window is shortened, then productivity increases, but readiness checking may be insufficient and reliability decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemigration efficiencyVSAvoidreadiness verification

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

Movement readiness indicators are set on candidate content objects before the migration window begins. This preliminary verification of readiness status allows the actual migration to proceed quickly within a shortened time window while maintaining reliability through pre-validated readiness checks

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10114844B2Readiness checker for content object movement

Publication Date: 2018.10.30 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

AI summary

Provided are techniques for movement readiness checking. It is determined whether each content object in a set of content objects is ready for movement. For each content object in the set of content objects that is determined to be ready for movement, an associated movement readiness indicator is set to indicate that the content object is ready to be moved. Then, each content object in the set of content objects is moved that has the associated movement readiness indicator set to indicate that the content object is ready to be moved.