Distributed data analysis

• US 9,576,268 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2009
• Issued: 02/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Tapper, Gunnar D., Birdsall, David W., Gilbert, Gary M.
• Primary Examiner(s): ASPINWALL, EVAN S
• Application Number:
  US12/548,198
• Publication Number:
  US 20110055158A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,736 Days
• Field of Search: 707/627, 707/736, 707/754, 707/756, 707/776, 707/E17.032, 707/E17.044, 707/E17.108, 709/223, 719/318
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

Distributed data analysis systems and methods are provided. A data broker distributes received data to consumers, such as information and repository consumers, which can be subscribed to the data. A subsystem with a processor for data processing can provide data to the data broker. A first information consumer may include a receiving module for receiving the data from the data broker, an analysis module for analyzing the received data to obtain a result, and a publication module for sending the result to the data broker when a second information consumer is subscribed to the result.

Claims

1. A computing system comprising:

a data broker having a processor and configured to distribute received data to information consumers subscribed with the data broker for the received data, the information consumers comprising a first information consumer, a second information consumer, and an execution consumer, the first information consumer comprising a problem analysis consumer, and the second information consumer comprising an automation consumer, wherein the data broker has an interface to;

receive first data from a subsystem,

send the first data to the first information consumer subscribed with the data broker for the first data,

receive an analysis result that is based on an analysis of the first data by the first information consumer, the analysis result identifying a repair action to repair a problem with the subsystem,

send the analysis result to the second information consumer subscribed with the data broker for data including the analysis result,

receive, from the second information consumer, an executable instruction to execute the repair, and

send the executable instruction to the execution consumer causing execution of the repair by the execution consumer,

wherein the data broker comprises a notification module configured to notify the first information consumer to not send the analysis result to the data broker if the second information consumer is not subscribed to the data including the analysis result.

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the analysis result is represented in a same format as the first data.

3. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the data broker is configured to signal loss of data to the first information consumer to allow the first information consumer to ignore the data loss or to directly query a subsystem for the lost data.

4. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the data broker is to interact with the first information consumer for the first information consumer to dynamically subscribe and unsubscribe to data from the data broker.

5. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the computing system is modular in that the data broker and the information consumers are addable and removable without reconfiguration of existing components of the computing system.

6. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the data broker comprises a cloud of data brokers.

7. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the data broker is to communicate via a messaging layer with the information consumers such that the data broker and information consumers are platform independent.

8. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the data broker is to receive subscription from the first information consumer for different kinds of data provided by different subsystems.

9. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the data broker is configured to send the first data to the first information consumer without the first information consumer specifically requesting the first data from the data broker, and the data broker is configured to send the analysis result to the second information consumer without the second information consumer specifically requesting the analysis result from the data broker.

10. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the data broker is to further receive, from the execution consumer, information relating to a result of the execution of the repair.

11. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the execution consumer is subscribed with the data broker for data including the executable instruction.

12. The computing system of claim 10, wherein the data broker is to distribute the information relating to the result of the execution of the repair to a user interface consumer to cause display of the information relating to the result of the execution of the repair at a user display device.

13. A method comprising:

receiving, by a data broker having a processor, data from a subsystem;

distributing, by the data broker, the data to a first information consumer that has registered with the data broker for the data, the first information consumer comprising a problem analysis consumer;

receiving, by the data broker, an analysis result produced by the first information consumer based on analyzing the data, the analysis result identifying a repair action to repair a problem with the subsystem;

sending, by the data broker, the analysis result to a second information consumer if the second information consumer is registered with the data broker for data including the analysis result, the second information consumer comprising an automation consumer;

receiving, by the data broker from the second information consumer, an executable instruction to execute the repair;

sending, by the data broker, the executable instruction to a third information consumer that causes execution of the repair by the third information consumer, the third information consumer registered with the data broker for data including the executable instruction;

determining, by the data broker, whether any information consumer is registered with the data broker for data including a result of the execution of the repair; and

in response to determining that there is no information consumer registered with the data broker for data including the result of the execution of the repair, notifying, by the data broker, the third information consumer to not send the result of the execution of the repair to the data broker.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the data received from the subsystem comprises raw data, the method further comprising representing the analysis result in a same format as the raw data.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising, in response to determining that an information consumer is registered with the data broker for the data including the result of the execution of the repair, receiving, by the data broker from the third information consumer, the data including the result of the execution of the repair.

16. A method comprising:

receiving, by a data broker including a processor, data from a subsystem;

distributing, by the data broker, the data to a first information consumer that has a first subscription with the data broker for the data, the first information consumer comprising a problem analysis consumer;

receiving, by the data broker, an analysis result produced by the first information consumer based on analyzing the data, the analysis result identifying a repair action to repair a problem with the subsystem;

sending, by the data broker, the analysis result to a second information consumer that has a second subscription with the data broker for data including the analysis result, the second information consumer comprising an automation consumer;

receiving, by the data broker from the second information consumer, an executable instruction to execute the repair;

sending, by the data broker, the executable instruction to an execution consumer that has a third subscription with the data broker;

executing, by the execution consumer, the executable instruction to execute the repair of the problem;

determining, by the data broker, whether any information consumer has a subscription with the data broker for data including a result of the execution of the repair; and

in response to determining that there is no information consumer having a subscription with the data broker for data including the result of the execution of the repair, notifying, by the data broker, the execution consumer to not send the result of the execution of the repair to the data broker.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving, by the data broker, additional data from the subsystem;

sending, by the data broker, the additional data to the first information consumer based on the first subscription;

receiving, by the data broker, an additional analysis result produced by the first information consumer based on analyzing the additional data; and

sending, by the data broker, the additional analysis result to the second information consumer based on the second subscription.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising, in response to determining that an information consumer has a subscription with the data broker for the data including the result of the execution of the repair, receiving, by the data broker from the execution consumer, the data including the result of the execution of the repair.