Control of Information Technology Resource Behavior Using Visual Positioning

• US 20130067413A1
• Filed: 09/09/2011
• Published: 03/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Boss, Gregory J., Jones, Andrew R., Lingafelt, Charles S., McConnell, Kevin C., Moore, John
• Application Number:
  US13/229,616
• Publication Number:
  US 20130067413A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/835
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals

Abstract

An embodiment of the invention provides a method for controlling computing resources using visual positioning on a graphical user interface. More specifically, a computer resource is displayed as a symbol and applications are displayed as objects on the graphical user interface. Input is received from a user, wherein the input includes movement of the symbol and/or movement of at least one of the objects on the graphical user interface. The computer resource is allocated with a processor based on the input. This includes allocating more of the computer resource to a first application and less of the computer resource to a second application when the distance between the symbol and a first object representing the first application is reduced, and when the distance between the symbol and a second object representing the second application is increased.

Claims

1. A method for controlling computing resources using visual positioning on a graphical user interface, said method comprising:

displaying a computer resource as a symbol on the graphical user interface;

displaying applications as objects on the graphical user interface;

receiving input from a user, the input including at least one of movement of the symbol and movement of at least one of the objects on the graphical user interface;

allocating the computer resource with a processor based on the input, said allocating of the computer resource including allocating more of the computer resource to at least one first application of the applications and less of the computer resource to at least one second application of the applications when a distance between the symbol and at least one first object representing the at least one first application is reduced and when a distance between the symbol and at least one second object representing the at least one second application is increased.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the computer resource includes at least one of CPU time, memory, hard disk space, network throughput, electrical power, processing priority, servers, audio output, video output, and processing rates.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said allocating of the computer resource is further based on rules, wherein the rules define at least one of:

a minimum computer resource to be allocated to the at least one first application;

a maximum computer resource to be allocated to the at least one first application;

a minimum computer resource to be allocated to the at least one second application; and

a maximum computer resource to be allocated to the at least one second application

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising at least one of dimming the display of the at least one first object when the distance between the at least one first object and the symbol is increased and dimming the display of the at least one second object when the distance between the at least one second object and the symbol is increased.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a text box when the symbol is positioned proximate one of the objects, the text box including computer resource allocation options for the object proximate the symbol; and

allocating the computer resource based on selection of a computer resource allocation option in the text box by the user.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the computer resource allocation options include percentages of the computer resource to be allocated to the object proximate the symbol.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the computer resource allocation options include at least one of:

absolute measures of the computer resource to be allocated to the object proximate the symbol; and

relative measures of the computer resource to be allocated to the object proximate the symbol.

8. A method for controlling computing resources using visual positioning on a graphical user interface, said method comprising:

displaying a computer resource as a symbol on the graphical user interface;

displaying applications as objects on the graphical user interface;

displaying a text box when the symbol is positioned proximate one of the objects, the text box including computer resource allocation options for the object proximate the symbol;

receiving input from a user, the input including selection of one of the computer resource allocation options; and

allocating the computer resource with a processor based on the input from the user.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the computer resource allocation options include percentages of the computer resource to be allocated to the object proximate the symbol.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the computer resource allocation options include at least one of:

absolute measures of the computer resource to be allocated to the object proximate the symbol; and

relative measures of the computer resource to be allocated to the object proximate the symbol.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the computer resource includes at least one of CPU time, memory, hard disk space, network throughput, electrical power, processing priority, servers, audio output, video output, and processing rates.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein said allocating of the computer resource is further based on rules, wherein the rules define at least one of a minimum computer resource to be allocated to at least one of the applications and a maximum computer resource to be allocated to at least one of the applications.

13. The method according to claim 8, further comprising dimming a display of an object of the objects when a distance between the object and the symbol is increased.

14. A method for controlling computing resources using visual positioning on a graphical user interface, said method comprising:

displaying the computer resources as symbols on a graphical user interface;

displaying applications as objects on the graphical user interface;

receiving input from a user, the input including at least one of movement of at least one of the objects and movement of at least one of the symbols on the graphical user interface;

allocating the computer resources with a processor based on the input, said allocating of the computer resources including;

allocating more of at least one first computer resource of the computer resources to an application represented by an object when a distance between a symbol representing the at least one first computer resource and the object is decreased, and

allocating less of at least one second computer resource of the computer resources to the application represented by the object when a distance between a symbol representing the at least one second computer resource and the object is increased.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the computer resources include at least one of CPU time, memory, hard disk space, network throughput, electrical power, processing priority, servers, audio output, video output, and processing rates.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein said allocating of the computer resources is further based on rules, wherein the rules define at least one of minimum computer resources to be allocated to the application represented by the object and maximum computer resources to be allocated to the application represented by the object.

17. The method according to claim 14, further comprising:

displaying a text box when the object is positioned proximate one of the symbols, the text box including computer resource allocation options for the symbol proximate the object; and

allocating the computer resources based on selection of a computer resource allocation option in the text box by the user.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the computer resource allocation options include percentages of the computer resources to be allocated to the symbol proximate the object.

19. The method according to claim 17, wherein the computer resource allocation options include at least one of:

absolute measures of the computer resources to be allocated to the symbol proximate the object; and

relative measures of the computer resources to be allocated to the symbol proximate the object.

20. The method according to claim 14, further comprising dimming the display of the at least one second computer resource when the distance between the symbol representing the at least one second computer resource and the object is increased.