Analysis of data utilization

• US 10,169,461 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2016
• Issued: 01/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: McDuff, Steve
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Viet D
• Application Number:
  US15/077,969
• Publication Number:
  US 20160224635A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,014 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/065 related to network devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1014 based on the content of a request

Abstract

One or more processors determine a first amount of data that was provided to a program by a data source. One or more processors analyze a degree of usage of the first amount of data by the program. One or more processors determine a second amount of data that was used by the program based, at least in part, on the degree of usage. The second amount of data is a portion of the first amount of data.

Claims

1. A method for determining efficiency of data exchange in a distributed software application, the method comprising:

initializing, by one or more processors, a data registry in response to a start of an operation;

clearing, by the one or more processors, a space in the data registry for inputting a first data;

storing the first data as part of the data registry;

instrumenting, by the one or more processors, the first data in the data registry;

determining, by the one or more processors, whether the first data was read by a program;

responsive to the determination that the first data was read by the program, flagging, by the one or more processors, the first amount of data;

determining, by the one or more processors, a first amount of data that was provided to the program in a distributed software application by a data source over a network;

analyzing, by the one or more processors, a degree of usage of the first amount of data by the program;

determining, by the one or more processors, a second amount of data that was used by the program based, at least in part, on the degree of usage, wherein the second amount of data is a portion of the first amount of data;

determining, by the one or more processors, a degree of efficiency of data usage by the program;

providing a modification to the data exchange to improve processor performance; and

generating, by the one or more processors, a report indicating the degree of efficiency of data usage by the program.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining, by the one or more processors, one or more types of data within the first amount of data that were used by the program.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining, by the one or more processors, a first amount of data that was provided to a program by a data source further comprises:

determining, by the one or more processors, the first amount of data that was provided to a program by a data source using one or both of an application programming interface call and a Structured Query Language query.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

generating, by the one or more processors, an analysis that includes one or more outputs, wherein the outputs include one or more of;

an operation name, an operation identification number, the first amount of data, the second amount of data, a percent data amount used by the program, a set of parameters used by the operation, and a list of the first amount of data, wherein the list of the first amount of data includes a set of data flagged as read and a set of data flagged as unread.