Automated File Value Determination Using Metadata
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for managing large collections of files lack automated techniques for determining the value of files, leading to inefficient resource allocation and increased costs in processing, backup, and data security, as existing techniques are either too expensive or too coarse-grained to provide meaningful insights into file values.
Innovation Solution
An automated system that determines the value of files using metadata such as access frequency, modification history, file size, and type, employing a model with coefficients to generate a numeric value, which is then used to prioritize processing, backup, and security measures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If automated file value determination using metadata is implemented, then resource allocation efficiency improves and costs decrease, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically determines file values using metadata without requiring manual intervention or complex external systems. The file value determination component self-services by collecting metadata from the filesystem, processing it through the model, and generating file values autonomously, thereby improving efficiency while keeping the system relatively simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual or complex mechanical assessment methods with an automated computational model that uses metadata to determine file values. This substitution of mechanical/manual processes with algorithmic processing improves resource allocation efficiency while avoiding the complexity of manual assessment systems.
2Measurement precision
If detailed metadata analysis is performed to accurately determine file value, then measurement precision improves, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the most relevant metadata features needed for file value determination rather than analyzing all possible file attributes. By selecting and processing only essential metadata elements (such as access patterns, file age, size, and type), the system achieves accurate file value determination while minimizing processing time and computational overhead.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different weighting and analysis depth to different metadata attributes based on their relevance to file value. Not all metadata is processed with equal intensity; instead, the system focuses computational resources on the most informative metadata features, achieving precise measurements without uniform high processing costs across all attributes.
3Loss of information
If comprehensive metadata collection is implemented to capture all file characteristics, then information completeness improves, but data storage requirements and processing overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and stores only the essential metadata features required for file value determination rather than maintaining complete copies of all file data. By identifying and retaining only the critical metadata attributes (access frequency, modification history, file size, type), the system achieves sufficient information completeness while significantly reducing storage requirements and processing overhead.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for processing a file stored on a computing system includes causing a processor of the system to obtain file usage data that is indicative of a number of times the file is loaded into a memory of the system and to obtain file-size data that is indicative of a size the file. The system further includes causing the processor to obtain metadata indicative of contents the file and to determine a file value based on the file usage data and at least one of the file-size data, the metadata, or a file-identifier value that is derived from an identifier of the file, where the file value comprising a quantitative or qualitative indicator of a value of the file. The system additionally includes causing the processor to adjust processing of the file relative to processing of other files associated with the computing system based on the file value.