Method and system for administering devices with multiple user metric spaces

• US 7,779,114 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2003
• Issued: 08/17/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Schumacher, Daniel Mark, Watson, Thomas James, Eisenhauer, Daniel Gene, Burkhart, Michael John, Bodin, William Kress
• Primary Examiner(s): Abdullahi; Salad
• Assistant Examiner(s): Todd; Gregory G
• Application Number:
  US10/418,596
• Publication Number:
  US 20040210625A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,679 Days
• Field of Search: 709201-203, 709223-225, 709/217, 702/127, 702/193, 702/188, 340/5.2, 340/5.52, 340/5.8, 340/5.82, 600/300
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for administering devices that include creating a user metric vector including a plurality of disparate user metrics, creating a plurality of user metric spaces, each user metric space including a plurality of metric ranges, and selecting, from the plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space. Administering devices also includes determining whether the user metric vector is outside the selected user metric space, identifying an action in dependence upon the user metric vector, if the user metric vector is outside the selected user metric space, and executing the action.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for administering devices, the computer comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions for executing the method, the method comprising:

creating a user metric vector comprising a plurality of disparate user metrics, wherein each user metric represents an indication of a user'"'"'s physical condition, wherein the user is a person;

creating a plurality of user metric spaces, each user metric space comprising a plurality of metric ranges;

selecting, from the plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space;

wherein selecting, from a plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space comprises;

selecting a metric space ID in dependence upon the value of a user metric, and wherein selecting a metric space ID in dependence upon the value of a user metric comprises comparing the value of the user metric with a table;

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

if the user metric vector is outside the selected user metric space, identifying an action in dependence upon the user metric vector, wherein identifying an action in dependence upon the user metric vector includes retrieving an action ID from an action list, wherein the action administers a device to alter the user'"'"'s physical condition; and

executing the action, wherein executing an action further comprises;

identifying a device class representing the device; and

identifying a communication class for the device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting, from a plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space comprises retrieving a metric space from a metric space table in dependence upon a metric space ID.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting, from a plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space comprises receiving a metric space ID from a user.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting, from a plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space comprises selecting a metric space ID in dependence upon a calendar data.

5. A system for administering devices, the system comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable, when executed by the computer processor, of carrying out the steps of:

creating a user metric vector comprising a plurality of disparate user metrics, wherein each user metric represents an indication of a user'"'"'s physical condition, wherein the user is a person;

creating a plurality of user metric spaces, each user metric space comprising a plurality of metric ranges;

selecting, from the plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space;

wherein selecting, from a plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space comprises selecting a metric space ID in dependence upon the value of a user metric, and wherein selecting a metric space ID in dependence upon the value of a user metric comprises comparing the value of the user metric with a table;

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

if the user metric vector is outside the selected user metric space, identifying an action in dependence upon the user metric vector, wherein identifying an action in dependence upon the user metric vector includes retrieving an action ID from an action list, wherein the action administers a device to alter the user'"'"'s physical condition; and

executing the action,

wherein executing an action further comprises;

identifying a device class representing the device; and

identifying a communication class for the device.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein computer program instructions capable of selecting, from a plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space comprise computer program instructions capable of retrieving a metric space from a metric space table in dependence upon a metric space ID.

7. The system of claim 5 wherein computer program instructions capable of selecting, from a plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space comprise computer program instructions capable of receiving a metric space ID from a user.

8. The system of claim 5 wherein computer program instructions capable of selecting, from a plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space comprise computer program instructions capable of selecting a metric space ID in dependence upon a calendar data.

9. A computer program product for administering devices, the computer program product disposed on a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, the computer program product comprising:

computer program instructions for creating a user metric vector comprising a plurality of disparate user metrics, wherein each user metric represents an indication of a user'"'"'s physical condition, wherein the user is a person;

computer program instructions for creating a plurality of user metric spaces, each user metric space comprising a plurality of metric ranges;

computer program instructions for selecting, from the plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space;

computer program instructions for selecting, from a plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space comprises

computer program instructions for selecting a metric space ID in dependence upon the value of a user metric, and wherein computer program instructions for selecting a metric space ID in dependence upon the value of a user metric comprises computer program instructions for comparing the value of the user metric with a table;

computer program instructions for determining whether the user metric vector is outside the selected user metric space;

if the user metric vector is outside the selected user metric space, computer program instructions for identifying an action in dependence upon the user metric vector, wherein computer program instructions for identifying an action in dependence upon the user metric vector includes computer program instructions for retrieving an action ID from an action list, wherein the action administers a device to alter the user'"'"'s physical condition; and

computer program instructions for executing the action;

wherein computer program instructions for executing an action further comprises;

computer program instructions for identifying a device class representing the device; and

computer program instructions for identifying a communication class for the device.

10. The computer program product of claim 9 wherein computer program instructions for selecting, from a plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space comprises computer program instructions for retrieving a metric space from a metric space table in dependence upon a metric space ID.

11. The computer program product of claim 9 wherein computer program instructions for selecting, from a plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space comprises computer program instructions for receiving a metric space ID from a user.

12. The computer program product of claim 9 wherein computer program instructions for selecting, from a plurality of user metric spaces, a user metric space comprises computer program instructions for selecting a metric space ID in dependence upon a calendar data.