DATA ANALYZING SYSTEM AND DATA ANALYZING METHOD

• US 20090037576A1
• Filed: 07/18/2008
• Published: 02/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Hatano, Hisaaki, Kubota, Kazuto
• Application Number:
  US12/175,563
• Publication Number:
  US 20090037576A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3041 where the computing system component is an input/output interface interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units G06F13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3072 where the reporting involves data filtering, e.g. pattern matching, time or event triggered, adaptive or policy-based reporting

Abstract

A data analyzing system includes an input-output device, a plurality of local analyzing devices, a center analyzing device and a connecting device which connects between the input-output device, the local analyzing devices, and the center analyzing device. The connecting device may receive and execute a forwarding setting command from the input-output device to select and set one or more devices, to which the command from the input-output device should be forwarded, from the local analyzing devices and the center analyzing device and forward a command different from the forwarding setting command transmitted from the input-output device to the devices, in which forwarding is set, and forward data or command transmitted from the local analyzing devices and the center analyzing device, in accordance with destinations described in the data or the command.

Claims

1. A data analyzing system comprising:

an input-output device operated by a user;

a plurality of local analyzing devices each of which performs a first data analysis of analyzing observed values obtained from each of local devices corresponding each of the local analyzing devices to obtain first analyzed data, respectively;

a center analyzing device which performs a second data analysis of analyzing the first analyzed data to obtain second analyzed data; and

a connecting device which connects between the input-output device, the local analyzing devices, and the center analyzing device,

(A) the input-output device comprising;

an inputting unit configured to input a command by the user;

a first communicating unit configured to transmit an inputted command to the connecting device and to receive data from the center analysis device and the local analysis devices via the connecting device; and

a data outputting unit configured to output received data,

(B) each of the local analyzing devices comprising;

a second communicating unit configured to transmit and receive a command or data to and from the input-output device, the center analysis device and other local analyzing devices via the connecting device;

a data acquiring unit configured to acquire observed values from the local devices corresponding to the local analyzing devices;

a first analysis command executor configured to receive and execute a first data analysis command from the input-output device through the second communicating unit to perform the first data analysis using the observed values and configured to transmit the first analyzed data to the input-output device through the second communicating unit; and

a first communication command executor configured to receive and execute a first communication command through the second communicating unit from the input-output device to provide the first analyzed data to at least one of the center analyzing device and other local analyzing devices and configured to receive and execute a second communication command through the second communicating unit from the input-output device to acquire the first or second analyzed data from at least one of the center analyzing device and the other local analyzing devices,

(C) the center analyzing device comprising

a third communicating unit configured to transmit and receive a command or data to and from the input-output device and the local analysis devices via the connecting device; and

a second analysis command executor configured to receive and execute a second data analysis command through the third communicating unit from the input-output device to perform the second data analysis using the first analyzed data acquired in advance and configured to transmit the second analyzed data to the input-output device through the third communicating unit, and

(D) the connecting device comprising;

a command executing unit configured to receive and execute a forwarding setting command from the input-output device to select and set one or more devices, to which the command from the input-output device should be forwarded, from the local analyzing devices and the center analyzing device;

a first forwarding unit configured to forward a command different from the forwarding setting command transmitted from the input-output device to the devices, in which forwarding is set; and

a second forwarding unit configured to forward data or command transmitted from the local analyzing devices and the center analyzing device, in accordance with destinations described in the data or the command.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the local analyzing device further comprises a sending unit configured to send data requested from the other local analyzing devices or the center analyzing device,

the first communication command executor in the local analyzing device

executes the first communication command so as to transmit the first analyzed data to at least one of the center analyzing device and the other local analyzing devices;

and

executes the second communication command to transmit a request command or request data for requesting transmission of the first or second analyzed data to at least one of the other local analyzing devices and the center analyzing device and thereby receive the first or the second analyzed data from at least one of the other local analyzing devices and the center analyzing device through the second communicating unit, and

when receiving the request command or the request data from the other local analyzing devices or the center analyzing device, the sending unit in the local analyzing device transmits the first or the second analyzed data requested by the request command or the request data to the other local analyzing devices or the center analyzing device.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the center analyzing device further comprises a second communicating command executor configured to receive and execute a third communication command from the input-output device through the third communicating unit to acquire the first analyzed data from at least one of the local analyzing devices or a fourth communication command from the input-output device through the third communicating unit to provide the second analyzed data to at least one of the local analyzing devices.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the command executing unit in the connecting device executes the forwarding setting command which includes a variable specifying the first analyzed data and a conditional expression to

transmit a command for instructing transmission of the first analyzed data specified by the variable to local analyzing devices in which the forwarding is set;

acquire the first analyzed data specified by the variable from the local analyzing devices to which the command has been forwarded; and

maintain the forwarding setting only for the local analyzing devices in which acquired first analyzed data satisfies the conditional expression, and

the first analysis command executor in the local analyzing device executes the command forwarded by the connecting device to transmit the first analyzed data specified by the variable to the connecting device.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the connecting device includes

a device type table configured to describe device types of the local analyzing devices and

a command table configured to hold commands having different descriptions depending on the device types as the command for instructing transmission of the first analyzed data,

the command executing unit in the connecting device specifies a device type of the local analyzing devices, in which the forwarding is set, according to the device type table respectively, specifies a command corresponding to a specified device type according to the command table respectively, and transmits a specified command corresponding to the device type to the local analyzing devices of the device type in which the forwarding is set, respectively.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the connecting device includes

a second command table configured to associate the first data analysis command with an identifier, and

the command executing unit in the connecting device executes the forwarding setting command which includes the identifier and the conditional expression to

specify the first data analysis command corresponding to the identifier included in the forwarding setting command according to the second command table;

transmit a specified first data analysis command to local analyzing devices in which the forwarding is set;

acquire the first analyzed data from the local analyzing devices to which the first data analysis command has been forwarded and

maintain the forwarding setting only for the local analyzing devices in which acquired first analyzed data satisfies the conditional expression.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the connecting device includes a device type table describing the device types of the local analyzing devices, and

the second command table holds first data analysis commands having different descriptions corresponding to the device types, correspondingly to the identifier of the first data analysis command, and

the command executing unit in the connecting device specifies a device type of the local analyzing devices, in which the forwarding is set, in the device type table respectively, specifies the first data analysis command corresponding to a set of a specified device type and the identifier included in the forwarding setting command according to the second command table respectively, and transmits a specified first data analysis command corresponding to the set to the local analyzing devices of the device type in which the forwarding is set, respectively.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the first analysis command executor in the local analyzing devices executes the first data analysis command to generate a predictive model for predicting one observed value of the observed values from other observed values of the observed values.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the first analysis command executor in the local analyzing devices executes the first data analysis command to generate a predictive model for predicting one of the observed values from others of the observed values and further generate a monitoring logic for monitoring whether or not a state of the local device is abnormal based on the predictive model and the observed values.

10. The system according to claim 8, wherein

the first communication command executor in the local analyzing device executes the first communication command to provide the predictive model to other local analyzing devices designated by the first communication command,

the first analysis command executor of the other local analyzing devices executes the first data analysis command to calculate a fitness value for the predictive model provided from the local analyzing device based on the observed values acquired by the data acquiring unit, and

the second analysis command executor in the center analyzing device executes the second data analysis command to calculate a distribution of fitness values acquired in advance from the other local analyzing devices.

11. The system according to claim 8, wherein

the second analysis command executor in the center analyzing device executes the second data analysis command to calculate a distribution of parameters of the predictive model acquired in advance from the local analyzing devices.

12. The system according to claim 10, wherein

the second analysis command executor in the center analyzing device further transmits graph data of the calculated distribution to the input-output device through the third communicating unit, and

the data outputting unit in the input-output device receives the graph data transmitted through the first communicating unit from the center analyzing device and outputs the graph data.

13. A data analyzing system comprising:

an input-output device operated by a user;

a plurality of local analyzing devices each of which performs a first data analysis by using observed values obtained by observing local devices corresponding the local analyzing devices to obtain first analyzed data, respectively;

a center analyzing device configured to perform a second data analysis using the first analyzed data to obtain second analyzed data; and

a connecting device configured to connect between the input-output device, the local analyzing devices, and the center analyzing device,

(A) the input-output device comprising;

an inputting unit configured to input a command by the user;

a first communicating unit configured to transmit an inputted command to the connecting device and to receive data from the center analysis device and the local analysis devices via the connecting device; and

a data outputting unit configured to output received data,

(B) each of the local analyzing devices comprising;

a second communicating unit configured to transmit and receive a command or data to and from the input-output device, the center analysis device and other local analyzing devices via the connecting device;

a data acquiring unit configured to acquire observed values by observing the local devices corresponding to the local analyzing devices; and

a first analysis command executor configured to receive and execute a first data analysis command through the second communicating unit from the input-output device to perform the first data analysis using the observed values and configured to transmit the first analyzed data to the input-output device through the second communicating unit;

(C) the center analyzing device comprising

a third communicating unit configured to transmit and receive a command or data to and from the input-output device and the local analysis devices via the connecting device; and

a second analysis command executor configured to receive and execute a second data analysis command through the third communicating unit from the input-output device to perform the second data analysis using the first analyzed data acquired in advance and configured to transmit the second analyzed data to the input-output device through the third communicating unit, and

(D) the connecting device comprising;

a command executing unit configured to receive and execute a forwarding setting command from the input-output device to select and set one or more devices, to which the command from the input-output device should be forwarded, from the local analyzing devices and the center analyzing device;

a first forwarding unit configured to forward a command different from the forwarding setting command transmitted from the input-output device to devices, in which forwarding is set;

a second forwarding unit configured to forward data or a command transmitted from the local analyzing devices and the center analyzing device, in accordance with destinations of the data or the command; and

a third communication command executor

configured to receive and execute a fifth communication command from the input-output device to acquire the first or second analyzed data from the local analyzing devices or the center analyzing device in which the forwarding is set and provide acquired data to at least one of the center analyzing device and the local analyzing devices and

configured to receive and execute a sixth communication command from the input-output device to acquire the first or second analyzed data from at least one of the center analyzing device and the local analyzing devices and provide acquired data to the center analyzing device and the local analyzing devices in which the forwarding is set.

14. A method of performing data analysis by using an input-output device operated by a user;

a plurality of local analyzing devices each of which performs a first data analysis to obtain first analyzed data;

a center analyzing device which performs a second data analysis of analyzing the first analyzed data to obtain second analyzed data; and

a connecting device which connects between the input-output device, the local analyzing devices, and the center analyzing device, comprising;

acquiring observed values from each of local devices corresponding to each of the local analyzing devices;

selecting one or more local analyzing devices to which the command from the input-output device should be forwarded and setting selected local analyzing devices to the connecting device;

transmitting a first data analysis command for performing the first data analysis of analyzing the observed values from the input-output device to the connecting device and forwarding by the connecting device the first data analysis command to said set local analyzing devices to make said set local analyzing devices to execute the first data analysis;

transmitting the first analyzed data obtained by the first data analysis from said set local analyzing devices to the input-output device via the connecting device;

transmitting the first analyzed data obtained by said set local analyzing devices to the center analyzing device via the connecting device;

setting the center analysis device to the connecting device as a device to which the command from the input-output device should be forwarded;

transmitting a second data analysis command for performing the second data analysis of analyzing the first analyzed data from the input-output device to the connecting device and forwarding by the connecting device the second data analysis command to said set center analysis device to make said set center analysis device to execute the second data analysis command; and

transmitting the second analyzed data obtained by the second data analysis from the center analysis device to the input-output device via the connecting device.