Service Integration Flow Efficiency Automation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for transitioning computer-related services within a computing environment lack efficiency and effectiveness, particularly in integrating new services without performance impact analysis and automated processes, leading to potential conflicts and suboptimal performance.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method is introduced that analyzes potential conflicts and determines necessary changes to integrate new services, using an automated process that evaluates performance impacts and adjusts accordingly, ensuring seamless integration and improved efficiency through machine learning and agile methodologies.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual processes are used to integrate computer-related services, then flexibility and adaptability are maintained, but productivity and flow efficiency deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice integration efficiencyVSAvoidintegration process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the computing environment, existing services, and integration requirements before actual service integration. This includes assessing performance impacts, identifying conflicts, and determining necessary changes in advance, which streamlines the subsequent integration process and improves productivity without proportionally increasing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The integration system automatically analyzes performance impacts, identifies conflicts, and determines necessary changes without requiring manual intervention for each decision point. The system serves itself by making automated determinations about service integration feasibility and required modifications, significantly improving integration efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If performance impact analysis is conducted for each service integration, then service reliability is improved, but loss of time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice integration reliabilityVSAvoidintegration time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Performance impact analysis is performed as a preliminary step before service integration is attempted. By assessing performance impacts in advance and identifying potential issues before they affect production systems, the system ensures reliable integration while managing time through structured preliminary evaluation rather than reactive problem-solving

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system obtains feedback regarding performance impacts from the analysis process and uses this feedback to determine whether to proceed with integration or make necessary changes. This feedback loop ensures reliable decision-making while optimizing time by avoiding integration attempts that would likely fail or cause performance degradation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If automated processes are implemented for service integration, then productivity increases, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice integration throughputVSAvoidautomation system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The automated integration system is designed to handle multiple service integration scenarios using a unified process framework. The same automated processes can analyze different types of services, assess various performance impacts, and determine appropriate changes across diverse computing environments, improving productivity without proportionally increasing complexity through reuse of core functionality

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

Solution Approach 2:

The automated system performs self-analysis and self-determination of integration feasibility and required changes. By making the system self-sufficient in evaluating performance impacts and identifying conflicts without requiring external manual analysis for each case, productivity increases while the complexity is contained within the automated system boundaries

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12175302B2Transitioning of computer-related services based on performance criteria with flow efficiency value
Publication Date: 2024.12.24 KYNDRYL INC
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AI summary

A transitioning process to integrate a computer-related service with one or more other computer-related services. The computer-related service and the one or more other computer-related services are analyzed to determine whether there is a conflict in integrating the computer-related service in the computing environment. A determination is made based on the analyzing whether one or more changes are to be made to a selected component. At least the analyzing and the determining are part of an automated process generated to integrate the computer-related service, and the automated process is at least a part of the transitioning process. An indication of a performance impact of executing at least the automated process to integrate the computer-related service is obtained. The transitioning process is to continue based on the performance impact meeting one or more selected criteria and based on determining that there are not one or more changes to be made to the selected component.