Unified Web Toolbar for Data Protection Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Enterprise administrators face inefficiencies in managing multiple data-protection applications due to the need to switch between various web-based interfaces for different data-protection tasks, leading to wasted time and reduced productivity.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method and system that provides a graphical toolbar interface within a web browser for accessing multiple data-protection applications from a single interface, allowing users to input requests, display data, and monitor characteristics of these applications, thereby streamlining data-protection tasks and operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If administrators use multiple separate web portals to manage different data-protection products, then each application can be accessed independently, but administrators waste significant time switching between web pages and windows

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of access to data-protection applicationsVSAvoidtime spent switching between web pages

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple data-protection application interfaces into a single unified web portal. This consolidation allows administrators to access and manage multiple data-protection products (backup, archiving, recovery, etc.) from one centralized interface, eliminating the need to switch between separate web pages and windows for different applications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The unified web portal is designed to provide universal access to multiple data-protection applications through a single interface. The system enables administrators to perform various data-protection tasks (monitoring, configuration, execution of operations) across different applications without leaving the portal, making the interface multi-functional and eliminating the need for separate access points.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If administrators access multiple data-protection applications through separate interfaces, then each application maintains its own functionality, but overall productivity is reduced due to the need to perform multiple web-based tasks from different locations

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess to multiple data-protection functionsVSAvoidoverall efficiency in accomplishing tasks

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple data-protection application interfaces into a single unified web portal that provides comprehensive access to backup, archiving, recovery, and other data-protection functions. This consolidation maintains the full functionality of each application while enabling administrators to perform all tasks from one centralized location, thereby improving productivity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary organization and integration of multiple data-protection applications before the administrator needs to access them. By pre-configuring the unified portal to include all necessary applications and functions in a single interface, the system eliminates the need for administrators to separately navigate to different web pages, thereby improving overall efficiency and productivity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If administrators use multiple separate web portals, then each application can be monitored independently, but the complexity of managing multiple interfaces increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemonitoring capability of data-protection applicationsVSAvoidnumber of web-based interfaces to manage

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple separate monitoring interfaces into a single unified web portal that provides centralized monitoring capabilities for all data-protection applications. The system integrates monitoring functions for backup, archiving, and recovery operations into one interface, reducing the number of separate interfaces administrators must manage while maintaining comprehensive monitoring reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The unified web portal provides universal monitoring capabilities that can track and display the status of multiple data-protection applications simultaneously. This multi-functional interface consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate monitoring tools, reducing interface complexity while maintaining the ability to independently monitor each application's performance and status.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS9495057B1Systems and methods for accessing multiple data-protection applications from a single interface

Publication Date: 2016.11.15 COHESITY INC

AI summary

A computer-implemented method for accessing multiple data-protection applications from a single interface. The method may include providing, in a portion of a web browser, a graphical toolbar interface for interfacing with a plurality of data-protection applications. The graphical toolbar interface may comprise at least one user input region for receiving input from a user and at least one data-display region for displaying representations of data received from the plurality of data-protection applications. The method may also include receiving, at the user input region, a request directed to at least one data-protection application of the plurality of data-protection applications and sending the request to the at least one data-protection application.