Layered Dataset Linking for Cross-Platform Data Interoperability

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional data management and analysis techniques face challenges in efficiently linking and managing datasets across disparate platforms, leading to data silos, manual intervention requirements, and unreliability due to inconsistencies and anomalies, which hampers data interoperability and sharing.

Innovation Solution

A collaborative dataset consolidation system that converts datasets into atomized data points and generates layered data files, enabling interoperability and linking across platforms, with features like inference engines and layer data generators to enhance data accuracy and facilitate query accessibility.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If conventional data management techniques are used to store datasets on different platforms, then data storage capacity is maintained, but data interoperability and linking capability deteriorate, resulting in data silos

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata storage capacityVSAvoiddata interoperability
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal data model that enables datasets from different platforms to be represented and linked through common structures. The system uses standardized data representations that can accommodate multiple data types and sources, allowing data to be both stored and interoperable through a unified framework that works across diverse platforms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If manual intervention is used to link datasets across platforms, then data accuracy can be maintained, but productivity and automation level deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata accuracyVSAvoiddata linking efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs automated inference engines that self-service the data linking process by automatically inferring relationships between datasets based on their contents and metadata. The patent describes how the system can autonomously identify and establish connections between datasets without requiring manual intervention, while maintaining accuracy through systematic analysis methods

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Adaptability or versatility

If datasets are standardized for interoperability, then data sharing is improved, but device complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata sharing capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a layered data model that segments data representation into distinct levels: raw data, standardized intermediate representations, and application-specific interpretations. This segmentation allows standardization to occur at the intermediate layer without requiring complete transformation of all data, thereby reducing the complexity burden while maintaining interoperability benefits

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

4Productivity

If automated data standardization is implemented, then productivity is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to inconsistencies and anomalies in automated processing

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata processing automationVSAvoiddata consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the automated standardization process continuously monitors and adjusts its operations based on detected inconsistencies and anomalies. The patent describes how the system can identify processing errors, validate data transformations, and correct deviations from expected standards, thereby maintaining reliability while preserving automation benefits

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20260079920A1Data ingestion to generate layered dataset interrelations to form a system of networked collaborative datasets
Publication Date: 2026.03.19 SERVICENOW INC
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AI summary

Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, and computer software and systems to provide an interface between repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities that seek access to the datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform that facilitates consolidation of one or more datasets, whereby data ingestion is performed to form data representing layered data files and data arrangements to facilitate, for example, interrelations among a system of networked collaborative datasets. In some examples, a method may include forming a first layer data file and a second layer data file, assigning addressable identifiers to uniquely identify units of data and data units to facilitate the linking of data, and implementing selectively one or more of a unit of data and a data unit as a function of a context of a data access request for a collaborative dataset.