Distributed Network for Collaborative Practice Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to adequately control cooperative interactions between different strategic levels of an organization, particularly in planning and execution cycles, while also requiring user-friendly interfaces for authorship.
Innovation Solution
A distributed collaborative computational network system that supports communities of practice with hierarchical structures, enabling cooperative interactive operations through client devices, unique identification codes, and guide templates for strategic level interactions, allowing for practice redefinition, planning, and execution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional collaborative systems are used, then basic cooperative operations can be performed, but adequate control of operations between different strategic levels cannot be achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the organizational structure into distinct strategic levels (first strategic level and second strategic level) with separate client devices and servers for each level. This segmentation enables independent control and management of operations at different strategic levels while maintaining overall system coherence through the hierarchical architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a hierarchical dimension to the collaborative system, organizing levels from first strategic level (higher level) to second strategic level (lower level). This dimensional structure adds control capabilities by enabling vertical coordination between levels while maintaining horizontal collaboration within each level.
2Reliability
If complex interfaces are used for authorship, then precise control is possible, but usability for users with low computer literacy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces guide templates as intermediary elements that mediate between the user and the complex system operations. These templates provide structured, user-friendly interfaces that guide users through complex authorship processes without requiring deep technical knowledge, thus maintaining both precision of control and ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the interface parameters by providing customized guide templates with simplified interactions tailored to different user needs. Instead of a uniform complex interface, the system adapts the interaction parameters through template-based guidance, making precise control accessible to users with varying levels of computer literacy.
3Reliability
If hierarchical structure is implemented, then control between strategic levels is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The servers at each strategic level are designed with multi-functionality, handling both local operations at their level and coordination with other levels. This universality reduces overall system complexity by consolidating functions rather than requiring separate dedicated components for each hierarchical function.
Solution Approach 2:
The hierarchical structure implements a nested architecture where second level client devices and servers operate within the framework of first level structures. This nesting allows the lower level to be contained within and coordinated by the higher level, providing control while managing complexity through hierarchical containment.
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AI summary
Method and system implemented by a collaborative distributed computational network, and related devices, comprising a plurality of client devices supported by a computational network to cooperatively perform interactive operations in at least one community of practice organized in a hierarchical structure at strategic levels, wherein said method comprises the steps of registering at least one community of practice on the computational network, creating a network of practice; assigning a unique identification code for a device on the network of practice computational network, identifying a user through an unique identification user code; connecting the user to at least one community of network of practice; defining a practice; unfolding the practice in strategic levels of this community of practice; registering the practice on the computational network; locating the practice in organizational or geographical coordinates; registering the localization of practice on the computational network; selecting a template guide containing sequential instructions content (as a script) and components; configuring the guide that implements the practice at the strategic level of the community of practice; publishing the guide in a client device through computer applications; setting up the interfaces of guides of client device for groups of people in group interactions of the same strategic level or between community of practice strategic levels; setting up specific interfaces of guides for individual actions on the client devices for individual interaction; manipulating guides on the client device group for the group interaction or when there is interaction between community of practice strategic levels; manipulating the individual guides on personal client devices when there are individual actions; storing the guide manipulation data in a distributed and asynchronous way on the client devices; maintaining versioning of data from historical records; synchronize data between client devices themselves and with the servers when the there is connectivity between them; and process the distributed guide data organizing and sorting out the history of best practices.