Tracking a status of a file transfer using feedback files corresponding to file transfer events

• US 10,334,017 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2015
• Issued: 06/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Sharma, Sumit
• Primary Examiner(s): Anyan, Barbara B
• Application Number:
  US14/974,274
• Publication Number:
  US 20170180454A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,285 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3006 where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/324 Display of status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/183 Provision of network file services by network file servers, e.g. by using NFS, CIFS network file access protocols H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/835 Timestamp
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

A device may receive a set of feedback files associated with a file transfer from a first device to a second device. A feedback file, of the set of feedback files, may include a timestamp corresponding to an event associated with the file transfer. The device may determine configuration information associated with the file transfer. The configuration information may include timing information, associated with the event, that identifies an expected time associated with the event. The device may determine status information associated with the file transfer. The status information may be determined based on the timestamp corresponding to the event and the timing information associated with the event. The device may provide the status information.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a device, a set of feedback files for determining a status of a file transfer, from a first device to a second device via an intermediate device, automatically and/or in real-time during the file transfer,

the set of feedback files including;

a first feedback file including a first timestamp corresponding to a generation of a file associated with the file transfer,

a second feedback file including a second timestamp corresponding to a sending of the file from the first device to the intermediate device,

a third feedback file including a third timestamp corresponding to a receipt of the file at the intermediate device,

a fourth feedback file including a fourth timestamp corresponding to a sending of the file from the intermediate device, and

a fifth feedback file including a fifth timestamp corresponding to a receipt of the file at the second device;

determining, by the device, configuration information associated with the file transfer,

the configuration information including information that identifies;

a file generation time window,

a first file sent time window,

a second file sent time window,

a first file receipt time window, and

a second file receipt time window;

comparing, by the device, the first timestamp and the file generation time window;

comparing, by the device, the second timestamp and the first file sent time window;

comparing, by the device, the third timestamp and the first file receipt time window;

comparing, by the device, the fourth timestamp and the second file sent time window;

comparing, by the device, the fifth timestamp and the second file receipt time window;

determining, by the device, status information associated with the status of the file transfer,

the status information being determined based on;

comparing the first timestamp and the file generation time window,

comparing the second timestamp and the first file sent time window,

comparing the third timestamp and the first file receipt time window,

comparing the fourth timestamp and the second file sent time window, and

comparing the fifth timestamp and the second file receipt time window;

determining, by the device and based on the status information, location information indicating a location, along a path of the file transfer, to which the file has progressed,

the location information enabling the device to locate, in real-time, the file along the path of the file transfer; and

providing, by the device and to a user device for display, the status information.

2. The method of claim 1, where the second device is a target device, and the set of feedback files includes:

a sixth feedback file associated with loading, opening, or storing the file by the second device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that a time, identified by a consumption timestamp, is within a file consumption time window; and

where determining the status information comprises;

determining status information indicating that the file transfer is complete based on determining that the time is within the file consumption time window.

4. The method of claim 1, where receiving the set of feedback files comprises:

receiving the first feedback file from the first device,

the first feedback file being created by the first device; and

receiving the second feedback file from the first device,

the second feedback file being created by the first device.

5. The method of claim 1, where the configuration information further comprises:

a file consumption time window information.

6. The method of claim 1, where the configuration information further comprises:

information that identifies a set of files associated with the file transfer from the first device to the second device,

the information including at least one of;

names of one or more files in the set of files,

a name of a group of files in the set of files, or

a list of file names in the set of files.

16. The method of claim 5, where the file consumption time window information comprises:

a schedule based on which the file is to be at least one of;

loaded,

opened,

stored, or

forwarded.

7. A device, comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors to;

receive a plurality of feedback files for determining a status of a file transfer, from a first device to a second device via an intermediate device, automatically and/or in real-time during the file transfer,

the plurality of feedback files including;

a first feedback file including a first timestamp corresponding to a generation of a file associated with the file transfer,

a second feedback file including a second timestamp corresponding to a sending of the file from the first device to the intermediate device,

a third feedback file including a third timestamp corresponding to a receipt of the file at the intermediate device,

a fourth feedback file including a fourth timestamp corresponding to a sending of the file from the intermediate device, and

a fifth feedback file including a fifth timestamp corresponding to a receipt of the file at the second device;

receive configuration information associated with the file transfer,

the configuration information including information that identifies;

a file generation time window,

a first file sent time window,

a second file sent time window,

a first file receipt time window, and

a second file receipt time window;

compare the first timestamp and the file generation time window;

compare the second timestamp and the first file sent time window;

compare the third timestamp and the first file receipt time window;

compare the fourth timestamp and the second file sent time window;

compare the fifth timestamp and the second file receipt time window;

determine the status of the file transfer based on;

comparing the first timestamp and the file generation time window,

comparing the second timestamp and the first file sent time window;

comparing the third timestamp and the first file receipt time window;

comparing the fourth timestamp and the second file sent time window;

comparing the fifth timestamp and the second file receipt time window;

determine, based on the status of the file transfer, location information indicating a location, along a path of the file transfer, to which the file has progressed,

the location information enabling the device to locate, in real-time, the file along the path of the file transfer; and

provide, to a user device for display, information associated with the status of the file transfer.

8. The device of claim 7, where the second device is a target device, and the plurality of feedback files includes:

a sixth feedback file associated with providing the file for loading, opening, or storing by the target device.

9. The device of claim 7, where the one or more processors are further to:

determine that a time, identified by the second timestamp, is not within the file sent time window; and

where the one or more processors, when determining the status of the file transfer, are to;

determine the status of the file transfer based on determining that the time, identified by the second timestamp, is not within the file sent time window.

10. The device of claim 7, where the first device and the second device are operated or managed by separate entities.

11. The device of claim 7, where the one or more processors, when receiving the plurality of feedback files, are to:

receive the first feedback file from the first device,

the first feedback file being created by the first device; and

receive the second feedback file from the first device,

the second feedback file being received after the first feedback file is received, and

the second feedback file being created by the first device.

12. The device of claim 7, where the configuration information further comprises:

an application identifier associated with a set of files transferred from the first device to the second device.

13. The device of claim 7, where the user device is not associated with operating or managing the first device, the intermediate device, or the second device.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors a device, cause the one or more processors to;

receive, from a first device, a set of feedback files for determining a status of a file transfer, from the first device to a second device via an intermediate device, automatically and/or in real-time during the file transfer,

the set of feedback files including;

a first feedback file identifying a first time associated with a generation of a file associated with the file transfer,

a second feedback file identifying a second time associated with a sending of the file from the first device to the intermediate device,

a third feedback file identifying a third time associated with a receipt of the file at the intermediate device,

a fourth feedback file identifying a fourth time associated with a sending of the file from the intermediate device, and

a fifth feedback file identifying a fifth time associated with a receipt of the file at the second device;

determine configuration information, associated with the file transfer, that includes;

a file generation time window,

a first file sent time window,

a second file sent time window,

a first file receipt time window, and

a second file receipt time window;

compare the first time and the file generation time window;

compare the second time and the first file sent time window;

compare the third time and the first file receipt time window;

compare the fourth time and the second file sent time window;

compare the fifth time and the second file receipt time window,

determine status information associated with the status of the file transfer,

the status information being determined based on;

comparing the first time and the file generation time window,

comparing the second time and the file sent time window,

comparing the third time and the first file receipt time window,

comparing the fourth time and the second file sent time window, and

comparing the fifth time and the second file receipt time window;

determine, based on the status information, location information indicating a location, along a path of the file transfer, to which the file has progressed,

the location information enabling the device to locate, in real-time, the file along the path of the file transfer; and

provide, to a user device, the status information for display to a user.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, where the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the one or more processors to:

determine that the second time is within the file sent time window; and

where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to determine the status information, cause the one or more processors to;

determine the status information indicating that the file transfer is in-progress based on determining that the second time is within the file sent time window.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, where the configuration information further comprises:

information that identifies the path.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, where the configuration information further comprises at least one of:

a device identifier associated with the first device;

or

a network address associated with the first device.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, where the configuration information further comprises:

a host system identifier associated with a set of files transferred from the first device to the second device.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, where the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the one or more processors to:

determine, based on the status information, whether the file is dropped, lost, or misrouted.