Full-text Search Index for Heterogeneous System Integration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current system management tools often require extensive time and resources to integrate different vendor products, limiting flexibility and increasing costs, as they typically need custom integration logic and a common data model, which is not 'open' and can't handle diverse management systems effectively.

Innovation Solution

An integration method that collects management information using a data collection component, stores it in a full-text search-index data-structure, and allows searching and displaying results independently of the original systems, enabling flexible integration without predefined logic and supporting heterogeneous environments through customizable HTML snippets and Web-Services.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional system management tools are used to manage different vendor products, then each tool can manage its specific product, but integration between tools requires extensive custom development logic and a common data model, increasing time and resource costs

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to manage different vendor productsVSAvoidintegration logic and data model complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a search engine as an intermediary component that sits between users and multiple system management tools. The search engine collects management information from various tools through standardized data collection, stores it in a unified full-text search index, and provides a single point of access for searching and managing computing components across different vendors. This mediator eliminates the need for complex custom integration logic between tools while maintaining the ability to manage heterogeneous products.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If custom integration logic is developed to connect different management tools, then integration between tools is achieved, but the solution is limited to products from specific vendors and does not offer an open integration approach

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveintegration between management toolsVSAvoidopenness and flexibility of integration solution

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The search engine is designed as a universal platform that can collect and index management information from multiple different vendor tools simultaneously. It uses standardized data collection mechanisms that work across heterogeneous systems, allowing a single search interface to provide access to computing components from any vendor. This multi-functional approach eliminates vendor-specific limitations and provides an open, flexible integration solution.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Ease of operation

If multiple separate management tools are used to access different computing components, then each tool provides specialized management capabilities, but users must access information through different interfaces and experiences

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvespecialized management capabilitiesVSAvoidnumber of user interfaces

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple separate management interfaces into a single unified search interface. The search engine collects management information from various specialized tools, stores it in a unified full-text search index, and presents all computing components through one consistent interface. Users can search for and manage computing components from any vendor through this single interface, eliminating the need to switch between multiple different tool interfaces while preserving access to specialized management capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS9122730B2Free-text search for integrating management of applications

Publication Date: 2015.09.01 SERVICENOW INC

AI summary

An integration mechanism for managing computing components may be provided. It may comprise collecting management information about the computing components using a data collection component, storing objects of the collected management information in a full-text search-index data-structure, generating for each collected object a displayable result snippet, searching the full-text search-index data-structure for matching objects based on a received parameter, retrieving all matching objects of the full-text search-index data-structure related to the search, and displaying the matching objects in form of the related result snippets, wherein the integration mechanism is independent from the computing components it is collecting management information from.