Cross-Platform Data Integration via Intermediary Search System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional data platforms operate independently, preventing synergy and limiting efficiency by not allowing users to simultaneously access and link resources across platforms, resulting in incomplete work products and redundant efforts during collaboration.
Innovation Solution
A system that integrates multiple platforms by allowing data analysis across different platforms, enabling users to search, link, and update objects and data sets between platforms, facilitating cross-platform data integration and collaboration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple data platforms operate independently, then each platform maintains its own data integrity and security, but users cannot access or link resources across platforms, resulting in incomplete work products and redundant efforts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a search system as an intermediary that mediates between users and multiple independent data platforms. The search system receives queries, searches across multiple platforms, and returns results without requiring the platforms themselves to be integrated or modified. This allows cross-platform access while maintaining the independence and integrity of each platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The search system is designed as a universal interface that can search across multiple different data platforms simultaneously. It provides a single unified search functionality that works across diverse platforms, eliminating the need for users to access each platform separately while maintaining each platform's independence.
2Loss of information
If users search for information across multiple independent platforms, then they can find relevant data, but they cannot link or integrate the results from different platforms, leading to incomplete work products
Solution Approach 1:
The search system merges search results from multiple independent platforms into a single unified result set. It combines results from different platforms in one response, allowing users to access comprehensive information from multiple sources without manually integrating data themselves. This reduces information loss while maintaining ease of operation.
3Productivity
If collaborators work on different platforms, then each can access their preferred platform's resources, but they cannot simultaneously utilize resources from other platforms or create shared legacy work
Solution Approach 1:
The search system serves as a mediator that allows collaborators to access and link resources from each other's platforms. Each collaborator can search for and reference work products from any platform through the search system, enabling shared access and linkage without requiring direct platform integration or changing collaborators' preferred platforms.
4Productivity
If platforms operate in isolation, then system architecture remains simple and maintainable, but synergy between platforms is prevented and efficiency is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system is segmented into independent components: individual data platforms remain separate and independent, while the search system operates as a separate layer that queries these platforms. This segmentation allows cross-platform efficiency through unified search while avoiding the complexity of full system integration, as each platform maintains its own architecture and data integrity.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for integrated data analysis. At least one object that is responsive to a first search query is determined. The object is stored in an object model that is managed by a first computing platform, and the at least one object is associated with one or more properties. One or more data sets that are responsive to a second search query are determined. The data sets are managed by a second computing platform. The one or more data sets are determined related to the at least one object. The at least one object is updated to include at least one property that references at least one analysis that relies on the one or more data sets.