Sensor Fusion Prediction for Proactive System Policy Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing information handling systems optimize performance only in response to changes that have already occurred, failing to predict and adjust performance metrics proactively for seamless optimization.

Innovation Solution

A sensor fusion prediction-based automatic adjustment system that determines influencing attributes affecting system characteristics, predicts future states using Bayesian inference and machine learning, and automatically adjusts policies to optimize performance before changes occur.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the system optimizes performance in response to changes that have already occurred, then the system can maintain stability and reliability, but the system cannot proactively predict and adjust performance metrics for seamless optimization

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveperformance optimization reliabilityVSAvoidresponse time to performance changes
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by predicting future performance states using sensor fusion and machine learning algorithms before actual changes occur. The predictive model analyzes current sensor data to forecast future system states, allowing the system to proactively adjust performance metrics in advance, thereby eliminating the delay between detecting a change and responding to it.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements continuous feedback loops where sensor data is constantly monitored, processed through machine learning models, and used to update performance predictions. This feedback mechanism allows the system to learn from actual system behavior and refine its predictions, creating a closed-loop system that continuously optimizes performance based on real-time conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If the system uses sensor fusion algorithms to predict future states, then the system can anticipate performance changes and adjust proactively, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveperformance adaptabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The sensor fusion algorithm serves multiple functions simultaneously: it processes data from multiple sensor types, predicts future system states, identifies performance optimization opportunities, and triggers appropriate responses. By making the prediction system multi-functional, the patent reduces the need for separate dedicated components for each function, thereby managing complexity while enhancing adaptability.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-service by automatically monitoring its own performance through integrated sensors, predicting its future states, and adjusting its own operational parameters without external intervention. The machine learning models continuously self-optimize based on observed data patterns, reducing the need for complex external control mechanisms and simplifying the overall system architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP3871065B1Aggregated stochastic method for predictive system response
Publication Date: 2025.11.26 DELL PROD LP
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AI summary

An information handling system operating a sensor fusion prediction based automatic adjustment system may comprise sensors measuring influencing attributes comprising information handling system operational values, wherein a subset of the influencing attributes influence one of a plurality of system characteristics, and a memory storing definitions of a user behavior characteristic, a performance mapping characteristic, a power status characteristic, a security profile characteristic, and a policy configuration characteristic. A processor may execute code instructions to apply stochastic prediction to the subset of influencing attribute values to predict a future value of a system characteristic influenced by the subset of influencing attribute values at a future instance in time, determine an adjustment to a policy controlling operational bounds of the system characteristic if the predicted future value of the system characteristic falls outside current policy-defined operating bounds, and automatically perform the policy adjustment before the future instance in time.