Administering devices in dependence upon user metric vectors with optimizing metric action lists

• US 7,151,969 B2
• Filed: 06/26/2003
• Issued: 12/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Watson, Thomas J., Schumacher, Daniel Mark, Burkhart, Michael John, Bodin, William Kress, Eisenhauer, Daniel G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Von Buhr, Maria N.
• Application Number:
  US10/607,486
• Publication Number:
  US 20050010312A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,272 Days
• Field of Search: 340 551- 553, 340 58- 582, 340/500, 382115-118, 382/124, 700/28, 700/79, 700/83, 702/108, 702/127, 902/3
• US Class Current: 700/83
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways

Abstract

Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include methods for administering devices. Such exemplary embodiments include creating a user metric vector comprising a plurality of disparate user metrics, creating a user metric space comprising a plurality of metric ranges, and determining whether the user metric vector is outside the user metric space. If the user metric vector is outside a user metric space, such embodiments include creating in dependence upon the user metric vector, a dynamic action list, identifying at least one action in the dynamic action list, executing the action, and determining whether a value of a user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the action is outside the metric range after executing the action.

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, creating in dependence upon the user metric vector, a dynamic action list;

identifying at least one action in the dynamic action list;

executing the action; and

determining whether a value of a user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the action is outside the metric range after executing the action.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein determining whether a value of a user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the action is outside the metric range after executing the action comprises:

identifying a user metric having a value that was outside a the metric range before executing the action; and

comparing the user metric and the metric range.

3. The method of claim 1 comprising identifying a new action.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein identifying a new action comprises retrieving an action ID from an action table.

5. The method of claim 3 comprising executing the new action.

6. The method of claim 5 comprising determining whether a value of a user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the new action is outside the metric range after executing the new action.

7. The method of claim 6 comprising adding the new action to a metric action list associated with the user metric.

8. The method of claim 1 comprising deleting an action ID from a metric action list associated with the user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the action.

9. A system for administering devices, the system comprising:

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

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

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

if the user metric vector is outside a user metric space, means for creating in dependence upon the user metric vector, a dynamic action list;

means for identifying at least one action in the dynamic action list;

means for executing the action; and

means for determining whether a value of a user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the action is outside the metric range after executing the action.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein means for determining whether a value of a user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the action is outside the metric range after executing the action comprises:

means for identifying a user metric having a value that was outside a the metric range before executing the action; and

means for comparing the user metric and the metric range.

11. The system of claim 9 comprising means for identifying a new action.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein means for identifying a new action comprises means for retrieving an action ID from an action table.

13. The system of claim 11 comprising means for executing the new action.

14. The system of claim 13 comprising means for determining whether a value of a user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the new action is outside the metric range after executing the new action.

15. The system of claim 14 comprising means for adding the new action to a metric action list associated with the user metric.

16. The system of claim 9 comprising means for deleting an action ID from a metric action list associated with the user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the action.

17. A computer program product for administering devices, the computer program product comprising:

a recording medium;

means, recorded on the recording medium, for creating a user metric vector comprising a plurality of disparate user metrics;

means, recorded on the recording medium, for creating a user metric space comprising a plurality of metric ranges;

means, recorded on the recording medium, for determining whether the user metric vector is outside the user metric space;

if the user metric vector is outside a user metric space, means, recorded on the recording medium, for creating, in dependence upon the user metric vector, a dynamic action list;

means, recorded on the recording medium, for identifying at least one action in the dynamic action list;

means, recorded on the recording medium, for executing the action; and

means, recorded on the recording medium, for determining whether a value of a user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the action is outside the metric range after executing the action.

18. The computer program product of claim 17 wherein means, recorded on the recording medium, for determining whether a value of a user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the action is outside the metric range after executing the action comprises:

means, recorded on the recording medium, for identifying a user metric having a value that was outside a the metric range before executing the action; and

means, recorded on the recording medium, for comparing the user metric and the metric range.

19. The computer program product of claim 17 comprising means, recorded on the recording medium, for identifying a new action.

20. The computer program product of claim 19 wherein means, recorded on the recording medium, for identifying a new action comprises means, recorded on the recording medium, for retrieving an action ID from an action table.

21. The computer program product of claim 19 comprising means, recorded on the recording medium, for executing the new action.

22. The computer program product of claim 21 comprising means, recorded on the recording medium, for determining whether a value of a user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the new action is outside the metric range after executing the new action.

23. The computer program product of claim 22 comprising means, recorded on the recording medium, for adding the new action to a metric action list associated with the user metric.

24. The computer program product of claim 17 comprising means, recorded on the recording medium, for deleting an action ID from a metric action list associated with the user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the action.