Data mining management server

• US 10,430,429 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2016
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. Corporation (Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. Corporation (Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.)
• Inventors: Whittaker, Thomas Edward, Baynes, Jr., Robert William
• Primary Examiner(s): Al-Hashemi, Sana A
• Application Number:
  US15/255,006
• Publication Number:
  US 20170060963A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,125 Days
• Field of Search: 707607, 707609, 707687, 707705, 707790, 707813, 707821
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2465 Query processing support for facilitating data mining operations in structured databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/25 Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 3/126 Evolutionary algorithms, e.g. genetic algorithms or genetic programming

Abstract

A system for outputting an action signal to a controlled system is provided. The system includes a memory storing individuals to be deployed to a production environment as an actor, wherein each of the individuals has a rule associated therewith for asserting an action, and the actor includes one or more individuals, is associated with the controlled system and is configured to transmit an intermediate action signal for asserting the action. The system includes a management server configured to receive the intermediate action signal, select, from a set of available operations, a selected operation to perform with respect to the intermediate action signal, and the set of available operations including allowance and a blocking of the intermediate action signal. Further, in response to the selected operation being the allowance, transmitting the intermediate action signal, and in response to the selected operation being the blocking, blocking the intermediate action signal.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented data mining management system for outputting an action signal to a controlled system including a portion, the portion including a corresponding set of at least one object to be controlled, the computer-implemented data mining management system comprising:

a memory storing a population of individuals to be deployed to a production environment as an actor, the individuals having been developed at least in part by a machine learning data mining system, wherein;

each respective one of the individuals has a rule associated therewith, the rule being for asserting an action in dependence upon production data, and

the actor (i) includes one or more of the individuals, (ii) is associated with the portion of the controlled system and (iii) is configured to transmit an intermediate action signal for asserting the action; and

a management server having a management rule set accessible thereto, the management server being configured to;

receive the intermediate action signal from the actor for asserting the action to the portion of the controlled system associated with the actor,

select, from a set of available operations, a selected operation to perform with respect to the received intermediate action signal, the selected operation being selected in dependence upon the management rule set accessible to the management server, and the set of available operations including an allowance of the received intermediate action signal and a blocking of the received intermediate action signal,

in response to the selected operation being the allowance of the received intermediate action signal, transmit the received intermediate action signal as the action signal to the portion of the controlled system to control the corresponding set of at least one object, and

in response to the selected operation being the blocking of the received intermediate action signal, block the received intermediate action signal from being received by the portion of the controlled system as the action signal.

2. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 1, wherein:

the set of available operations includes modification of the received intermediate action signal; and

the management server is further configured to, in response to the selected operation being the modification of the received intermediate action signal, (i) modify a control characteristic of the received intermediate action signal to obtain a modified received intermediate action signal and (ii) transmit the modified received intermediate action signal as the action signal to the portion of the controlled system to control the corresponding set of at least one object.

3. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 2, wherein the received intermediate action signal is modified by at least one of (i) allowing some sub-actions of the received intermediate action signal to be transmitted to the portion of the controlled system and blocking other sub-actions of the received intermediate action signal from being received by the portion of the controlled system, (ii) allowing some of the sub-actions or all of the sub-actions of the received intermediate action signal to be transmitted to the portion of the controlled system with a shift in time, and (iii) allowing some of the sub-actions or all of the sub-actions of the received intermediate action signal to be transmitted to the portion of the controlled system with a change in amplitude or frequency.

4. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 2, wherein the management rule set includes management rules configured to block the received intermediate action signal, allow the received intermediate action signal and modify the received intermediate action signal, such that only a predefined percentage of one or more objects of the corresponding set of at least one object can be controlled by the action signal at a given time.

5. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 2, wherein each object of the corresponding set of at least one object or the corresponding set of at least one object is assigned a priority according to which the received intermediate action signal is blocked, allowed and modified.

6. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 5, wherein the priority is assigned to each object of the corresponding set of at least one object in dependence upon at least one of a class of the portion including the corresponding set of at least one object and a type of the action asserted by the received intermediate action signal.

7. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 6, wherein:

the class of the portion is assigned from a set of classes including a low priority class, an intermediate priority class and a high priority class; and

the type of the action asserted by the received intermediate action signal is assigned from a set of types including a low bandwidth action, an intermediate bandwidth action and a high bandwidth action.

8. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 5, wherein the priority is assigned to each object of the corresponding set of at least one object or to the corresponding set of at least one object in dependence upon historical selections of the selected operation by the management server to block the received intermediate action signal, allow the received intermediate action signal and modify the received intermediate action signal.

9. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 8, wherein the management server is further configured to increase the priority assigned to an object of the corresponding set of at least one object or the corresponding set of at least one object when a most recent intermediate action signal has been blocked or modified for the object or the corresponding set of at least one object.

10. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 5, wherein the priority is assigned to each object of the corresponding set of at least one object or the corresponding set of at least one object in dependence upon a criticality rating of each object of the corresponding set of at least one object or the corresponding set of at least one object.

11. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 5, wherein the priority is assigned to each object of the corresponding set of at least one object or the corresponding set of at least one object in dependence upon at least one of a time of a day, a day of a week and a week of a year.

12. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 2, wherein the management server is further configured to provide feedback to the actor indicating whether the received intermediate action signal, as received from the actor, was blocked, allowed or modified by the management server.

13. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 12, wherein the feedback provided to the actor includes information for updating the rule associated with the one or more of the individuals associated with the actor.

14. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 1, wherein the management server is further configured to contribute to the production data.

15. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 1, wherein the production data includes at least one of (i) information upon which an operation of the controlled system is dependent upon, and (ii) information that is dependent upon the operation of the controlled system.

16. The computer-implemented data mining management system of claim 1, wherein:

the population of the individuals stored in the memory is to be deployed to the production environment by multiple actors;

the controlled system includes one or more portions, each portion of the one or more portions including a respective corresponding set of at least one object to be controlled;

each respective one of the multiple actors (i) includes one or more of the individuals, (ii) is associated with a particular portion of the one or more portions of the controlled system and (iii) is configured to transmit a respective intermediate action signal;

the management server is further configured to receive a respective intermediate action signal from each respective one of the multiple actors; and

the management server is further configured to, for each received respective intermediate action signal, select the selected operation to perform with respect to the respective intermediate action signal.

17. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium impressed with computer program instructions to output an action signal, from a data mining management system including a memory and a management server having a management rule set accessible thereto, to a controlled system including a portion, the portion including a corresponding set of at least one object to be controlled, wherein:

the memory stores a population of individuals to be deployed to a production environment as an actor, the individuals having been developed at least in part by a machine learning data mining system, wherein;

each respective one of the individuals has a rule associated therewith, the rule being for asserting an action in dependence upon production data, and

the actor (i) includes one or more of the individuals, (ii) is associated with the portion of the controlled system and (iii) is configured to transmit an intermediate action signal for asserting the action; and

the computer program instructions, when executed on a processor of the management server, implement a method comprising;

receiving the intermediate action signal from the actor for asserting the action to the portion of the controlled system associated with the actor,

selecting, from a set of available operations, an operation to perform with respect to the received intermediate action signal, the selected operation being selected in dependence upon the management rule set accessible to the management server, and the set of available operations including an allowance of the received intermediate action signal and a blocking of the received intermediate action signal,

in response to the selected operation being the allowance of the received intermediate action signal, transmitting the received intermediate action signal as the action signal to the portion of the controlled system to control the corresponding set of at least one object, and

in response to the selected operation being the blocking of the received intermediate action signal, blocking the received intermediate action signal from being received by the portion of the controlled system.

18. A computer-implemented controlled system for receiving action signals from a data mining management system, the computer-implemented controlled system comprising:

one or more portions, each portion of the one or more portions including a corresponding set of at least one object to be controlled,

wherein each portion of the one or more portions receives, from a management server of the data mining management system, an action signal for asserting one or more actions to control at least one object of the corresponding set of at least one object,

wherein the data mining management system includes a memory storing a population of individuals to be deployed to a production environment as one or more actors, the individuals having been developed at least in part by a machine learning data mining system,

wherein each respective one of the individuals has one or more rules associated therewith, the one or more rules being for asserting the one or more actions in dependence upon production data,

wherein each respective one of the one or more actors (i) includes one or more of the individuals, (ii) is associated with a particular portion of the one or more portions of the controlled system and (iii) is configured to transmit an intermediate action signal for asserting the one or more actions,

wherein the management server has a management rule set accessible thereto, and wherein the management server is configured to;

receive the intermediate action signal from each particular one of the one or more actors for asserting the one or more actions to the particular portion of the controlled system associated with the particular actor;

select, from a set of available operations, a selected operation to perform with respect to each received intermediate action signal, the selected operation being selected in dependence on the management rule set accessible to the management server, and the set of available operations including an allowance of the respective received intermediate action signal and a blocking of the respective received intermediate action signal;

in response to the selected operation being the allowance of the respective received intermediate action signal, transmit the respective received intermediate action signal as the action signal to the particular portion of the controlled system associated with the particular actor to control the corresponding set of at least one object of the particular portion, and

in response to the selected operation being the blocking of the respective received intermediate action signal, block the respective received intermediate action signal from being received by the particular portion of the controlled system associated with the particular actor.