Node Diagram Interface for Data Pipeline Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data pipeline design interfaces are inflexible and lack modularity due to the hardcoding of compatibility and connectivity configurations, limiting the ability to incorporate a wide range of off-the-shelf instructions across different operating systems and environments.
Innovation Solution
A node diagram interface that decouples compatibility and connectivity configurations from computer instructions, allowing for the graphical representation of instructions as visual nodes with inlets and outlets, enabling the visualization and programmatic extraction of pipeline design configurations, thereby facilitating the use of both purpose-built and off-the-shelf instructions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If compatibility and connectivity configurations are hard coded into the pipeline, then the pipeline structure is well-defined and stable, but the pipeline's modularity and flexibility deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the pipeline configuration into separate visual elements: nodes representing instructions and distinct connection lines representing data flow. This segmentation allows the structure to be defined visually while maintaining flexibility to reconfigure connections without rewriting code, resolving the contradiction between structural stability and flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary visual diagram layer that sits between the hardcoded instructions and the actual data flow. This diagram layer acts as a mediator that defines connectivity configurations visually, allowing the pipeline to maintain stable instruction definitions while flexibly configuring data flow paths through the visual interface.
2Manufacturing precision
If compatibility and connectivity configurations are hard coded into the pipeline, then the pipeline structure is well-defined, but the ability to incorporate arbitrary instructions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal visual diagram interface that can represent any instruction as a node, regardless of its source or type. The standardized node and connection structure provides precise structural definition while universally accommodating arbitrary instructions from different sources, resolving the contradiction between structure precision and instruction compatibility.
3Adaptability or versatility
If detailed representations of compatibility and connectivity are used to decouple instructions from configurations, then modularity and flexibility improve, but the complexity of the interface increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses visual copying of node templates and connection patterns to represent complex compatibility and connectivity configurations. Instead of requiring complex interface interactions, users can visually copy and paste node templates with predefined properties, reducing interface complexity while maintaining detailed representations needed for modularity.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method and system of constructing a node diagram interface for designing data pipelines from arbitrary instructions displaying, through graphical user interface, at least one code view representing the code associated with one or more instruction, at least one diagram view representing the code associated with one or more instruction, and at least one visual representation of one or more pipeline connection; and programmatically extracting one or more pipeline design configuration from at least one diagram view. In embodiments the instructions may be depicted in a diagram as visual nodes with at least one inlet for entering data into the node or at least one outlet for exporting data from the node, such that the configuration of the inlets, outlets, and pipeline connections visualizes the expected flow of the diagram.