Systems and methods for performing integrated searches with actions

• US 8,521,741 B1
• Filed: 02/12/2008
• Issued: 08/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: EMC Corporation (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: EMC Corporation (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Muddu, Sudhakar, Maunder, Anurag, Tryfonas, Christos
• Primary Examiner(s): ALAM, SHAHID AL
• Application Number:
  US12/030,153
• Time in Patent Office: 2,023 Days
• Field of Search: 707/770, 707/769, 707/737, 707/799, 395/200.43, 705/14
• US Class Current: 707/737
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1458 Management of the backup or restore process
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/119 Details of migration of file systems migration mechanisms in storage systems G06F3/0647
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/122 using management policies backup systems G06F11/1446; file migration policies for HSM systems G06F16/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/185 Hierarchical storage management [HSM] systems, e.g. file migration or policies thereof details of archiving G06F16/11
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/35 Clustering; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9027 Trees
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/00 Methods or arrangements for processing data by operating upon the order or content of the data handled logic circuits H03K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

A system for performing integrated searches and actions is disclosed. The system may include a search engine configured to generate a search result or report in response to a search query. The system may also include a queue manager coupled with the search engine. The queue manager may be configured to receive the search result or report from the search engine. The queue manager may also be configured to assign files in the search result or report to one or more service provider queues according to an action profile. The system may also include one or more nodes coupled with the one or more service provider queues. The one or more nodes may be configured to perform one or more actions on one or more files in the one or more service provider queues according to the action profile.

Claims

1. A system for performing at least one action on a search result, the system comprising:

one or more service provider queues resident on one or more node computers in a cluster of node computers;

a queue manager coupled with the service provider queues, the queue manager configured to receive the search result and an action profile defining at least one action to be performed on files of the search result, and to assign the files of the search result to the service provider queues according to the action profile; and

the cluster of node computers coupled with the service provider queues, each of the node computers performs at least one action in accordance with one or more rules defined in the action profile, the cluster of node computers includes a first node computer and a second node computer, each of the first and second node computers includes a first service provider that perform a first action of the at least one action on a first set of the assigned files of the search result and a second service provider that perform a second action of the at least one action on a second set of the assigned files of the search result.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the search result comprises one or more items, the system further comprising a user interface configured to receive first user input pertaining to selection of the one or more items from the search result and second user input pertaining to the action profile.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the user interface is further configured to receive the search query from the user pertaining to the search result.

4. The system of claim 1 further comprising a security manager configured to control the at least one action according to at least one of one or more policies and one or more rules.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the one or more rules pertain to versions and confidentiality of the one or more items.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one action includes disposal of duplicates in the one or more items.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one action includes at least one of identifying duplicates in the one or more items and tagging the duplicates.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the queue manager is further configured to assign duplicates of the one or more items to the one or more service provider queues, the at least a portion of the at least one action performed on the duplicates of the one or more items.

9. The system of claim 1 further comprising a job manager configured to provide the set of identifiers of the one or more items to the queue manager.

10. The system of claim 1 further comprising a job manager configured to manage performance of the at least one action, the job manager further configured to manage restart of the at least one action according to a set of checkpoints.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one action includes at least one or more of tagging, downloading, exporting, copying, moving, locking, deleting, legal-holding, and email conversion.

12. The system of claim 1 wherein the action profile contains at least a compound action, the compound action includes at least two of tagging, downloading, exporting, copying, moving, locking, deleting, legal-holding, and email conversion.

13. A method for performing at least one action on one or more items in a search result, the method comprising:

receiving a set of one or more items comprising the search result;

receiving an action profile, the action profile defining at least one action to be performed on one or more of the items in the search result;

assigning a first set of the one or more items to a first service provider queue resident on a first node of a cluster of node computers and a second set of the one or more items to a second provider queue resident on the first node, each service provider queue representing a specific action;

assigning a third set of the one or more items to a third service provider queue resident on a second node of the cluster of node computers and a fourth set of the one or more items to a fourth provider queue resident on the second node, each service provider queue representing a specific action;

retrieving the first, second, third and fourth sets of items from the first, second, third and fourth service provider queues; and

performing, a first action on the first and third sets of items using the first service provider and a second action on the second and fourth sets of items using the second service provider, in accordance with one or more rules defined in the action profile.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising receiving first user input pertaining to selection of the one or more items from the search result and second user input pertaining to the action profile from a same user interface.

15. The method of claim 13 further comprising controlling the at least one action according to at least one of one or more policies and one or more rules.

16. The method of claim 15 further comprising creating an exception report if the at least one action is disallowed according to the at least one of the one or more policies and the one or more rules.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein the one or more rules pertain to versions of the one or more items in filesystem snapshots.

18. The method of claim 15 wherein the one or more rules pertain to disposal of duplicates in the one or more items.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the one or more rules requiring tagging the duplicates.

20. The method of claim 13 wherein the one or more rules pertain to duplicate versions of the one or more items in a filesystem or an email store.

21. The method of claim 13 further comprising managing restart of the at least one action according to a set of checkpoints.

22. The method of claim 13 wherein the action profile contains at least a compound action, the compound action includes at least two of tagging, downloading, exporting, copying, moving, locking, deleting, legal-holding, and email conversion.