Integration Scoring for Automated Data Import Accuracy

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Solution Overview

Problem

The integration of data between different software applications is challenging due to varying data storage and access methods, leading to errors during automated data import and a lack of clarity on integration accuracy.

Innovation Solution

Integration scoring techniques are employed to assess data import accuracy by assigning weights to variables, calculating a weighted difference score based on user corrections, and providing recommendations for improvement, allowing for customizable thresholds and strategic selection of import configurations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If automated data import is performed between different software applications, then data transfer efficiency is improved, but data import accuracy deteriorates due to varying data storage and access methods

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata transfer efficiencyVSAvoiddata import accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by calculating integration scores based on user corrections to imported data. The integration score quantifies the accuracy of data mapping between applications, and this feedback is used to automatically adjust and improve mapping configurations for future imports, thereby increasing data import accuracy while maintaining automated transfer efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters by dynamically adjusting mapping configurations based on integration scores. When data import accuracy is low, the system modifies mapping parameters between different data structures to optimize the transformation process, allowing automated imports to maintain both efficiency and improving accuracy over time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Manufacturing precision

If manual review of imported data is performed, then data import accuracy is improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata import accuracyVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial manual review by requiring user corrections only when integration scores fall below a predetermined threshold. For high-quality imports with scores above the threshold, the system accepts data automatically without manual review, thus reducing time consumption while maintaining data import accuracy through selective human intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of review intensity dynamically based on integration scores. When scores are high, minimal or no manual review is performed; when scores are low, more extensive manual review is triggered. This adaptive approach optimizes the balance between data import accuracy and time consumption

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Manufacturing precision

If integration scoring is implemented to improve data import accuracy, then data quality is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata import accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service by automatically calculating integration scores and using them to adjust mapping configurations without requiring complex external intervention. The automated scoring and self-adjustment mechanisms improve data import accuracy while minimizing the need for complex manual configuration systems

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

4Manufacturing precision

If developers are made aware of integration performance, then integration quality is improved, but information processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveintegration qualityVSAvoidinformation processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides simplified feedback to developers through integration scores that automatically quantify integration quality. This feedback mechanism improves integration quality by enabling developers to identify and fix mapping issues without requiring complex analysis tools or extensive information processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20220261438A1Integration scoring for automated data import
Publication Date: 2022.08.18 INTUIT INC
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AI summary

Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for integration scoring. Embodiments include importing a set of values from a data source to an electronic data system and assigning each value of the set of values to an import variable of a set of import variables in the electronic data system. Embodiments include displaying in a user interface a value for each import variable in the set of import variables in the electronic data system and receiving, via the user interface, one or more corrections to one or more import variables in the set of import variables. Embodiments include determining a weight corresponding to each import variable for which a correction was received. Embodiments include determining an integration score based on the one or more corrections and the weight corresponding to each import variable in the set of import variables for which a correction was received via the user interface.