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System and method for maintaining the health of a machine

  • US 10,002,041 B1
  • Filed: 02/01/2013
  • Issued: 06/19/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for maintaining the operational health of at least one local machine in a computer network, the computer network connecting multiple local machines operated by users and at least one regional zone machine, said method comprising:

  • storing instructions in a nontransitory electronic database;

    implementing a computer processor for accessing the stored instructions in the database and executing the instructions to perform steps including;

    utilizing the at least one regional zone machine for managing a plurality of plug-ins disposed on the local machines for resolving health risk related events;

    identifying a plug-in for resolving a detected health risk event from the plurality of plug-ins for resolving health risk related events, the plug-in permitted for use on the at least one local machine, said plug-in being a purpose-specific plug-in associated with the detected health-risk event, and said plug-in having one or more trigger specifications to allow deployment of said plug-in on said local machine;

    monitoring a health status of said local machine according to said one or more trigger specifications, said trigger specifications each having a pre-defined threshold value representative of optimal operation of said local machine;

    identifying at least one current threshold value associated with operation of said local machine;

    detecting said health-risk event upon determining said at least one current threshold value exceeds said pre-defined threshold value;

    generating a notification associated with detection of said health-risk event for communication to a user of said local machine, the notification requesting user action;

    determining a priority of said health-risk event;

    monitoring a status of the user action to determine if the user action is incomplete; and

    deploying said plug-in when the user action is incomplete in response to said detected health-risk event, said plug-in configured to automatically resolve said detected health-risk event on the local machine based on the priority of the health-risk event.

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