Inter-object Validation for Integrated Computing Systems

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional integrated computing systems face challenges in customization and compatibility due to frequent changes in technological components, leading to inefficiencies in integrating multiple resources into an optimal configuration, with over 1,000 dependencies that must be resolved to form a valid system, often requiring iterative re-starts and consuming scarce resources.

Innovation Solution

An inter-object validation system that generates design elements (DEs) from component specifications, allowing users to select and validate components against standardized templates, ensuring interoperability and optimizing the integrated computing system configuration by adding, removing, or replacing components to meet user needs while maintaining compatibility.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional integrated computing systems are customized by integrating multiple resources, then user-specific needs can be met, but the complexity of resolving over 1,000 dependencies increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomization capabilityVSAvoiddependency resolution complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the complex system configuration into discrete, manageable design elements (DEs) that represent individual components or groups of components. Each DE is independently configurable and validated, breaking down the overwhelming 1,000+ dependencies into smaller, tractable units that can be configured and validated separately before integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces design elements (DEs) as intermediary abstractions between raw components and the final integrated system. These DEs serve as mediators that encapsulate complexity, providing a standardized interface for configuration and validation while managing the underlying dependency relationships without exposing them to users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If iterative re-starts are performed to resolve dependencies in conventional systems, then system compatibility can be achieved, but time consumption and resource exposure to technological changes increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem compatibilityVSAvoidconfiguration time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs validation of design elements and their interrelationships in advance, before final system integration. By validating DEs individually and in combinations beforehand, the system identifies and resolves compatibility issues prior to deployment, eliminating the need for iterative re-starts and reducing configuration time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where validation results from design element interactions are captured and used to guide subsequent configuration decisions. This feedback loop allows the system to learn from validation outcomes and make informed adjustments without requiring full iterative re-starts, thereby reducing time consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Measurement precision

If design elements with separate logic and instructions are used, then validation accuracy improves, but the structure of the system becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevalidation accuracyVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a virtual model or copy of the physical system architecture using design elements that mirror the actual component relationships. This virtual representation allows for accurate validation of system configurations without requiring physical prototypes or complex real-world testing, maintaining validation precision while simplifying the actual system structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS11263110B1Inter-object validation system and method for the objects of a test system
Publication Date: 2022.03.01 EMC IP HLDG CO LLC
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AI summary

An inter-object validation system includes a computing system that executes an application to receive an aggregated object configuration comprising multiple design elements (DEs) associated with multiple objects of a test system in which at least one DE has one or more behaviors of its respective object in the test system represented by the aggregated object configuration. The application may also execute, under control of the application, logic stored in the at least one DE to determine whether one or more other DEs in the aggregated object configuration meet a specified criteria associated with the a personality of the DE in which the personality representing a type of behavior that the at least one DE and the other DEs in the aggregated object configuration are to provide, and generate a report indicating the results of the determination. The logic is separate and distinct from the instructions that control the logic.