Entity Record Reliability Scoring for Hybrid IT Data Hygiene
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Solution Overview
Problem
Organizations face challenges in maintaining data accuracy and consistency across hybrid computing environments that combine traditional IT technologies and cloud technologies, leading to discrepancies and inconsistencies in managing network connected devices and users due to the use of multiple system management entities.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for computing reliability scores based on identifying conflicts between attribute values in entity description records, using a graph structure to enhance accuracy and consistency, and providing these scores to management software objects for informed decision-making.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple system management entities are used to manage hybrid computing environments, then the ability to manage diverse devices and users is improved, but data accuracy and consistency deteriorate due to discrepancies between entities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a graph structure as an intermediary layer between multiple system management entities. This graph computes reliability scores for entity descriptions by analyzing conflicts across different management entities, acting as a mediator that reconciles discrepancies while preserving the ability to manage diverse devices and users through multiple entities
2Measurement precision
If reliability scores are computed by identifying conflicts between attribute values, then data accuracy is improved, but computational complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by pre-computing and storing reliability scores in a graph structure before management operations are executed. This allows conflict identification and reliability computation to be done in advance, reducing the computational burden during actual management operations while maintaining high data accuracy
3Reliability
If reliability scores are provided to management software objects, then the reliability of management operations is improved, but the complexity of the management system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by providing reliability scores back to management software objects, which then use this information to make informed decisions about which entity descriptions to trust. This feedback mechanism improves operation reliability while keeping the system architecture relatively simple by reusing existing management software components
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AI summary
A method for producing a consistent dataset describing a computing environment, comprising: accessing at least one set of entity description records, each entity description record describing one of a plurality of entities of a computing environment, each entity description record comprising a plurality of attribute values each of one of a plurality of entity attributes; computing a plurality of reliability scores, each reliability score computed for an attribute value of the plurality of attribute values of an entity description record by: identifying at least one conflict between the attribute value and at least one other attribute value of at least one other entity description record; and computing the reliability score according to identifying the at least one conflict; and providing the plurality of reliability scores to at least one management software object for the purpose of performing at least one management operation pertaining to management of the computing environment.