Administering Devices Including Creating A User Reaction Log

• US 20070288493A1
• Filed: 08/20/2007
• Published: 12/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Watson, Thomas, Schumacher, Dniel, Eisenhauer, Daniel, Burkhart, Michael, Bodin, William
• Application Number:
  US11/841,512
• Publication Number:
  US 20070288493A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2829 involving user profiles according to which the execution of a home appliance functionality is automatically triggered
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2841 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2843 Mains power line
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances

Abstract

Methods for administering devices, including creating a user metric vector including a plurality of disparate user metrics, creating a user metric space including a plurality of metric ranges, and determining whether the user metric vector is outside the user metric space. Embodiments include identifying an action in dependence upon the user metric vector, if the user metric vector is outside a user metric space, executing the action, and creating a user reaction log.

Claims

1. A method for administering devices, the method comprising:

creating a user metric vector comprising a plurality of disparate user metrics;

creating a user metric space comprising a plurality of metric ranges;

determining whether the user metric vector is outside the user metric space;

if the user metric vector is outside a user metric space, identifying an action in dependence upon the user metric vector;

executing the action; and

creating a user reaction log.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein creating a user reaction log comprises:

detecting a change in a value of an attribute of a device after executing the action; and

recording a description of the change of the value of the attribute of the device.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein detecting a change in a value of an attribute of a device after executing the action comprises:

receiving a first state object from an action object;

receiving a second state object from the action object; and

comparing the first state object with the second state object.

4. The method of claim 2 includes notifying a user of the change in the attribute of the device.

5. The method of claim 1 comprising providing the user reaction log to the user.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising editing an action list associated with the user metric vector.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein editing an action list associated with the user metric vector comprises adding an action ID to an action list in dependence upon an editing instruction.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein editing an action list associated with the user metric vector comprises deleting an action ID from the action list in dependence upon an editing instruction.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising editing a device list associated with an action.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein editing a device list associated with an action comprises adding a device ID to a device list in dependence upon an editing instruction.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein editing a device list associated with the action comprises deleting a device ID from a device list in dependence upon an editing instruction.

12-33. -33. (canceled)