User-Centric Interface for Unified Data Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Organizations face challenges in efficiently protecting and managing growing volumes of data across multiple devices, with existing solutions often being complex and not user-friendly, leading to difficulties in data protection, retrieval, and resource management.
Innovation Solution
A user-centric interface for an information management system that provides a unified view of all user documents across devices, enabling users to search, manipulate, and manage data objects in a machine-agnostic manner, including deduplication and storage policy management, thereby simplifying data protection and resource management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If existing data protection solutions are implemented, then data protection capability is improved, but system complexity increases and user-friendliness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a user-centric interface as an intermediary layer between the user and the complex information management system. This interface abstracts the underlying system complexity while providing intuitive access to data protection, search, and management functions. The interface acts as a mediator that translates user-friendly operations into system-level actions without exposing the user to system complexity.
2Reliability
If existing data protection solutions are implemented, then data protection capability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The user-centric interface serves as an intermediary that simplifies user interaction with the data protection system. It provides intuitive controls and presentation for complex functions like deduplication, policy management, and cross-device data retrieval, making the system easy to operate while maintaining strong data protection capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables users to independently manage their data across multiple devices through the user-centric interface. Users can perform operations such as searching for documents, managing storage policies, and controlling deduplication without requiring administrative assistance or understanding of underlying system complexities.
3Quantity of substance
If data volumes increase, then information management capability is improved, but data redundancy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The user-centric interface provides access to deduplication management capabilities that allow users to identify and eliminate redundant data across their devices. The interface mediates between the user's need to maintain data volumes and the system's ability to detect and remove duplicates through policy-driven automation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs deduplication parameters and storage policies that automatically adjust data management behavior. By changing parameters related to data identification, comparison, and elimination, the system reduces redundancy while maintaining necessary data volumes for user operations.
4Ease of operation
If user-centric interface is implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complexity from the user interaction layer by providing a simplified user-centric interface. Complex functions like deduplication, policy management, and multi-device coordination are taken out of the user's responsibility and handled automatically by the system, leaving only simple, intuitive controls for the user.
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AI summary
Disclosed are systems and methods for providing a user-centric interface into an information management system. The interface may enable a user to search for, view, and modify data objects in an information management system that are associated with the user or with the user's username. The interface may also enable a user to apply administrator-like functions to the data objects associated with the user. The administrator-like functions may include content modification, deduplication operations, and storage policy adjustments, among others.