Organization categorization system and method

• US 9,501,553 B1
• Filed: 04/27/2015
• Issued: 11/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Humana Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Humana Incorporated
• Inventors: Hollister, Andrew B., Barth-Thacker, Elizabeth
• Primary Examiner(s): Cao, Phuong Thao
• Application Number:
  US14/697,135
• Publication Number:
  US 20160357841A1
• Time in Patent Office: 575 Days
• Field of Search: 707/737
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/86 Mapping to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/50 Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

An organization categorization system and method is disclosed. The organization categorization system and method relies on server data to discover which business organizations are consuming the finite resources of the server and in what proportions. Organizations are categorized according to their consumption of resources. The categorization system and method further ascribes a relative business value to each organization to facilitate the allocation of resources among the various organizations in a business. In an example embodiment, users of the server resources use the SAS programming language and the server resources execute SAS applications that support the SAS programming language. The organization categorization system and method connects an executed computer program to a business-defined classification of applicability to purpose. The system and method employs a double level of abstraction to link specific programming styles, first to a general solution case, and then to link the general solution idiomatically to the business case.

Claims

1. A computerized method for categorizing business organizations comprising:

(a) defining at a server a plurality of user programming behavior categories related to an executing computer program;

(b) receiving at said server for a plurality of users a plurality of execution attributes for each of said plurality of user programming behavior categories;

(c) receiving at said server a plurality of business organizational classifications which identify said business organizations;

(d) assigning at said server each of said plurality of user programming behavior categories to at least one of a plurality of programming patterns and a resource use level;

(e) associating at said server each of said plurality of programming patterns to a resource use measure and a user profile;

(f) identifying, at said server from the plurality of business organizational classifications, the business organizational classification associated with each of said plurality of users;

(g) aggregating at said server by organizational classification the programming patterns and resource use measures of users associated with each business organizational classification; and

(h) assigning at said server to the business organizational classification one of a plurality of profiles according to the aggregated programming patterns and resource use measures.

2. The computerized method of claim 1 wherein said user programming behavior categories are selected from the group consisting of programming writing style, computer resource consumption, and business organizational classification.

3. The computerized method of claim 1 wherein said plurality of execution attributes is selected from the group consisting of program block identifier, program data input identifier, program data output identifier, program step summary code, program step options, CPU amount used, I/O amount used, disk storage used, counts, department identifier, supervisor identifier, and user profile category.

4. The computerized method of claim 1 wherein at least one execution attribute comprises a sum of measures for a time domain.

5. The computerized method of claim 1 wherein said plurality of execution attributes is selected from the group consisting of absolute sums and ratios.

6. The computerized method of claim 1 wherein said resource use level comprises a range of values.

7. The computerized method of claim 1 wherein said resource use measure comprises a range of values.

8. The computerized method of claim 1 further comprising allocating, at said server, resources to a plurality of business organizational classifications according to said plurality of profiles.

9. A computerized method for categorizing business organizations comprising:

(a) defining at a server a taxonomy of programming techniques invoked in an executing computer program;

(b) defining at said server for each of said programming techniques a plurality of execution attributes;

(c) defining at said server a time domain for collecting use data for said plurality of execution attributes;

(d) receiving, at said server, use data collected during said time domain for said plurality of execution attributes, said use data collected from a plurality of users executing said computer program;

(e) receiving, at said server, a plurality of business organizational classifications which identify said business organizations;

(f) associating, at said server, one of said plurality of business organizational classifications with each of said plurality of users;

(g) aggregating, at said server, use data by organizational classification from users associated with each business organizational classification;

(h) aggregating at said server for each business organizational classification said use data for said plurality of execution attributes; and

(i) assigning at said server each business organizational classification to one of a plurality of use profiles according to said aggregated use data for said plurality of execution attributes.

10. The computerized method of claim 9 wherein said programming techniques correspond to program blocks of said executing computer program.

11. The computerized method of claim 9 wherein said plurality of execution attributes is selected from the group consisting of program block identifier, program data input identifier, program data output identifier, program step summary code, program step options, CPU amount used, I/O amount used, disk storage used, counts, department identifier, supervisor identifier, and user profile category.

12. The computerized method of claim 9 wherein at least one execution attribute comprises a sum of measures for said time domain.

13. The computerized method of claim 9 wherein said plurality of execution attributes is selected from the group consisting of absolute sums and ratios.

14. The computerized method of claim 9 wherein assigning each business organizational classification to one of a plurality of use profiles comprises assigning said business organizational classification according to resource use levels associated with said aggregated use data.

15. The computerized method of claim 9 further comprising allocating, at said server, resources to each business organizational classification according to said plurality of use profiles.

16. A computerized method for mapping business organizations to a use profile comprising:

(a) defining at a server a plurality of programming steps invoked in an executing computer program;

(b) defining at said server a plurality of execution attributes for measuring resource use of said plurality of programming steps;

(c) defining at said server a plurality of programming step groups, said plurality of programming step groups comprising a plurality of programming steps;

(d) associating at said server with each of said plurality of programming step groups a resource use level;

(e) mapping at said server each of said associated programming steps groups and resource use levels to a programming pattern;

(f) defining at said server a plurality of use profiles, each of said plurality of use profiles associated with a programming pattern and a resource use measure;

(g) receiving, at said server, use data for said plurality of execution attributes, said use data collected from a plurality of users executing said computer program;

(h) associating, at said server, each of the plurality of users with one of a plurality of business organizations;

(i) calculating at said server for said plurality of business organizations at least one resource use measure from said use data of users associated with each of said plurality of business organizations; and

(j) assigning at said server each of said plurality of business organizations to one of said plurality of use profiles according to said business organization'"'"'s resource use measure.

17. The computerized method of claim 16 wherein said plurality of execution attributes is selected from the group consisting of program block identifier, program data input identifier, program data output identifier, program step summary code, program step options, CPU amount used, I/O amount used, disk storage used, counts, department identifier, supervisor identifier, and user profile category.

18. The computerized method of claim 16 further comprising allocating, at said server, resources to said plurality of business organizations according to said plurality of use profiles.