Context Instance Mediator for Business Record Classification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Computer systems often lose the connection between real-world business contexts and their processing, making it difficult to relate user messages and understand system failures, especially when records are dispersed throughout the system and lack appropriate classification schemes that satisfy all users' information needs.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that identify and update application components to maintain active real-world context instances during execution, using instance identifiers and context types to classify records, allowing for easier retrieval and association with business processes, thereby enhancing data output and user understanding.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If records are dispersed throughout the computer system during processing, then system processing capability is improved, but the connection between real-world business contexts and processing is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces context instances as intermediary objects that mediate between real-world business contexts and computer system processing. Each context instance captures business context information and associates it with processing operations, maintaining the connection despite records being dispersed throughout the system. The context instance acts as a mediator that preserves contextual relationships while allowing flexible processing architecture.
2Productivity
If a single classification scheme is used for all records, then data storage and retrieval efficiency is improved, but it cannot satisfy diverse user information needs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the classification system into multiple context instance types (e.g., business process context, data context, user context) that can be independently configured. Each context type can be classified and retrieved according to specific user needs, allowing the system to maintain efficient retrieval mechanisms while adapting to diverse information requirements through selective context instantiation and filtering.
3Loss of information
If real-world context instances are tracked and maintained, then user messaging quality is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service mechanisms where context instances automatically associate with processing operations without requiring manual configuration. The system automatically tracks context instances, maintains their relationships with processing operations, and generates user messages based on context changes. This automation reduces the operational burden on users while maintaining high-quality contextual information throughout the processing lifecycle.
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AI summary
A method provides real world contexts to computer applications for outputting data describing one or more real world contexts. Components are identified in a computer application which implement instances of real world contexts and application components are updated so that a real world context instance is active during the execution by the application of a function for the real world context instance. Each real world context instance may have an instance identifier and is referenced by type of real world context.