Human trust overlays for automated data confidence fabrics
AssigneeEMC IP Holding Company LLC
InventorsStephen J. Todd, Jason A. Shepherd
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Abstract
A social overlay is provided that allows an application to seek human input when performing high-risk decisions. The overlay allows an application to obtain data confidence scores when performing operations and to obtain human confidence scores that can be used to seek input from users with high confidence scores. This allows applications to improve performance and avoid situations where an automated application may make a wrong decision that does not account for the associated risk.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- operating an application, wherein the application accesses data from a machine data confidence fabric, wherein the machine data confidence fabric associates confidence scores with data ingested into the machine data confidence fabric;
- reaching a decision point in the application and determining that the decision point is mission critical that requires input from a user, wherein the decision point is associated with a decision type;
- accessing, by the application, a human data confidence fabric and selecting, by the application, a user that satisfies requirements of the decision type, wherein the requirements include a confidence score above a threshold confidence score, wherein the human data confidence fabric generates confidence scores for users;
- seeking user input from the selected user with regard to a decision to be made at the decision point;
- receiving input from the selected user regarding the decision;
- and
- performing an action associated with the decision when the input from the user is affirmative.
A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions that are executable by one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:
- operating an application, wherein the application accesses data from a machine data confidence fabric, wherein the machine data confidence fabric associates confidence scores with data ingested into the machine data confidence fabric;
- reaching a decision point in the application and determining that the decision point is mission critical that requires input from a user, wherein the decision point is associated with a decision type;
- accessing, by the application, a human data confidence fabric and selecting, by the application, a user that satisfies requirements of the decision type, wherein the requirements include a confidence score above a threshold confidence score wherein the human data confidence fabric generates confidence scores for users;
- seeking user input from the selected user with regard to a decision to be made at the decision point;
- receiving input from the selected user regarding the decision;
- and
- performing an action associated with the decision when the input from the user is affirmative.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.