Administering devices including allowed action lists

• US 7,461,143 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2003
• Issued: 12/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2003
• 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): Cardone; Jason
• Assistant Examiner(s): TAYLOR, NICHOLAS R
• Application Number:
  US10/692,414
• Publication Number:
  US 20050091384A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,867 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2805 Home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2827 Reporting to a device within the home network; wherein the reception of the information reported automatically triggers the execution of a home appliance functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include a method for administering devices in a network. The method includes 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, identifying an action in dependence upon the user metric vector the method includes determining whether the action is allowed. If the action is allowed, the method includes executing the action. Many embodiments include receiving an allowed action list, such as for example, receiving an allowed action list from a moderator DML.

Claims

1. A method for administering devices in a network, the method comprising:

creating a user metric vector comprising a plurality of disparate user metrics, wherein each user metric represents an indication of a dynamic change in a user'"'"'s physical condition in response to an external stimulus, wherein the user is a person;

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, wherein the action administers a device to alter the user'"'"'s physical condition in response to the external stimulus;

receiving an allowed action list;

determining whether the action is allowed, wherein determining whether the action is allowed comprises comparing the identified action with the allowed action list;

if the action is allowed, executing the action; and

identifying an allowed replacement action, if the identified action is not allowed, wherein identifying an allowed replacement action comprises comparing the identified action with the allowed action list, further comprising executing the allowed replacement action.