Workflow Graph Builder for Non-Technical Data Aggregation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems require technical expertise for interfacing with data aggregation platforms, making workflow development inaccessible to less technically inclined users in petrotechnical business activities.

Innovation Solution

A workflow development platform providing a user-friendly interface that generates a directed acyclic graph (DAG) from user interactions, bridging the gap between users and data aggregation platforms, enabling less technical users to create and deploy workflows.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If a data aggregation platform is used to process petrotechnical data, then data processing capability is improved, but technical expertise requirement increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata processing capabilityVSAvoidtechnical expertise requirement

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a workflow development platform as an intermediary layer between users and the data aggregation platform. This platform provides a user-friendly interface that automatically generates directed graphs from user interactions, eliminating the need for users to directly interface with complex data aggregation platform APIs or understand underlying technical complexities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The workflow development platform creates simplified representations (directed graphs) that copy and abstract the essential structure of data processing workflows. Users interact with these simplified graphical models rather than the complex underlying system, making workflow development accessible to non-technical users while maintaining full data processing capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Adaptability or versatility

If direct interfacing with data aggregation platform is required, then workflow flexibility is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveworkflow flexibilityVSAvoidinterface complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the workflow development process into distinct components: a user interface layer for workflow design, a graph generation layer for translation, and an execution layer for runtime processing. This segmentation allows each layer to handle specific tasks independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining workflow flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from direct linear interfacing (user → platform API) to a graphical dimension (user → visual workflow editor → directed graph → platform). This dimensional change allows users to define complex workflows through visual arrangements rather than programming, reducing interface complexity while preserving adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS20250390824A1Workflow development platform

Publication Date: 2025.12.25 SCHLUMBERGER TECH CORP

AI summary

Systems and methods presented herein are configured to provide a workflow development platform configured to provide a user interface to a user device, to receive user interaction data entered via the user interface, to generate a data artifact based on the user interaction data, to parse the data artifact to generate a directed acyclic graph, and to provide the directed acyclic graph to an orchestrator.