Landscape Diagram Generator for Computing System Subsystems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current tools and applications fail to provide a comprehensive overview of multiple features of a computing system, such as the order of release and layered relationships of subsystems, data flow, and developmental status, in a single, easy-to-understand representation.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that generate a landscape diagram using processor-based devices, where vertical positioning represents the order of release and horizontal positioning represents the layered relationship of subsystems, incorporating graphical and text-based data to depict subsystems, data flow, and status information, with color codes and patterns for additional features.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple tools and applications are used to represent different system features, then each feature can be represented accurately, but the overall system complexity increases and no single comprehensive overview is available
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple system representation tools into a single landscape diagram that simultaneously displays subsystems, data flows, layered relationships, and release orders. This merging eliminates the need for multiple separate tools while maintaining comprehensive system overview capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The landscape diagram serves multiple functions simultaneously: it represents subsystem architecture, data flow paths, layered relationships, and release sequencing. This multi-functionality allows a single diagram to replace multiple specialized tools, reducing overall system complexity.
2Measurement precision
If detailed information about subsystems, data flows, and relationships is included, then system representation accuracy improves, but diagram complexity and difficulty of understanding increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the system into distinct visual elements: subsystems are represented as blocks, data flows as arrows, layered relationships as spatial arrangements, and release orders as positioning. This segmentation organizes complex information into manageable visual components that are easier to interpret while maintaining accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses two-dimensional spatial arrangement to represent multiple dimensions of system information simultaneously. Horizontal positioning indicates layered relationships, vertical positioning indicates release order, and connections indicate data flow. This dimensional transformation makes complex multi-dimensional data more accessible and easier to understand.
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional system representation tools are used, then existing functionality is maintained, but comprehensive overview of multiple features cannot be provided
Solution Approach 1:
The landscape diagram is designed as a universal representation tool that can depict multiple system features simultaneously: subsystem architecture, data flows, layered relationships, and release sequencing. This versatility ensures comprehensive coverage of system features while maintaining reliable and accurate representation.
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AI summary
Disclosed are methods, systems and products, including a method that includes receiving, by at least one processor-based device, data relating to features of a computing system, generating, by the at least one processor-based device, a diagram including graphical data representative of, at least partly, the features of the computing system, including an order of release of at least some subsystems of the computing system and layered relationship information, and providing the generated diagram to a user interface for presentation.