TELEMETRY OF SYSTEM CHANGES

• US 20130117011A1
• Filed: 11/03/2011
• Published: 05/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Ahmed, Haroon, Laflen, James D.
• Granted Patent: US 9,009,183 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/3
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/08 Configuration management of networks or network elements address allocation H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/84 Measuring functions
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

A telemetry system can parse and transform one or more change sets from a format intended to be processed by a computer to a form that is readily consumable by a human. The report or display generated to present the results can be customized for a particular domain.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one processor of a computing device;

a memory of the computing device; and

at least one module loaded into the memory causing the at least one processor to;

receive a system of interconnected subsystems;

receive a set of system changes comprising imperative commands and declarative definitions for the system of interconnected subsystems; and

transform the set of system changes for the system of interconnected subsystems from a machine-consumable form to a natural language presentation, the natural language presentation providing information about user actions associated with the set of changes.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the natural language presentation further comprises consequences of applying the user actions to the system of interconnected subsystems.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the natural language presentation further comprises potential adverse effects of applying the set of system changes.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the natural language presentation further comprises additional changes needed as a consequence of applying the set of system changes to the system of interconnected subsystems.

5. The system of claim 4, further comprising at least one module loaded into the memory causing the at least one processor to:

determine dependencies of the system of interconnected subsystems; and

identify additional changes associated with the determined dependencies.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one module loaded into the memory causing the at least one processor to:

customize the presentation for a specific domain associated with a particular user interface environment.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein a system domain comprises a database domain a database and the system comprises system.

8. A method comprising:

receiving a set of system changes comprising imperative commands and declarative definitions for a system of interconnected subsystems; and

transforming the set of system changes from a machine-consumable form to a natural language presentation by a processor of a computing device, the natural language presentation providing information about user actions associated with the set of changes.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

providing consequences of applying the user actions to the system in the natural language presentation; and

providing potential adverse effects of applying the set of system changes in the natural language presentation.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

displaying in the natural language presentation, additional changes needed as a consequence of applying the set of system changes to the system.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

customizing the natural language presentation for a specific user profile.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising transforming a set of changes comprising imperative commands to declarative definitions by:

applying the set of changes to a source model to create a target model, the set of changes comprising the imperative commands, the source model comprising a representation of the target system prior to application of the set of changes;

reverse engineering the source model and the target model to compute a set of declarative definitions equivalent to the set of changes comprising the imperative commands.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining dependencies of the system; and

identifying additional changes associated with the determined dependencies.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a set of changes comprising imperative commands or declarative definitions for a database system; and

identifying additional changes associated with the determined dependencies.

15. A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions which when executed cause at least one processor of a computing device to:

receive a set of changes comprising imperative commands or declarative definitions for a database system; and

transform the set of received changes into a natural language presentation, the presentation identifying user actions associated with the set of changes and identifying effects of the user actions on the system.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, comprising further computer-executable instructions which when executed cause the at least one processor of the computing device to:

display in the natural language presentation, additional changes needed as a consequence of applying the set of system changes to the system.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, comprising further computer-executable instructions which when executed cause the at least one processor of the computing device to:

display in the natural language presentation, potential adverse effects of applying the set of system changes.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, comprising further computer-executable instructions which when executed cause the at least one processor of the computing device to:

display in the natural language presentation, dependencies of applying the set of system changes and additional changes associated with the determined dependencies.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, comprising further computer-executable instructions which when executed cause the at least one processor of the computing device to:

customize the natural language presentation for a specific domain.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, comprising further computer-executable instructions which when executed cause the at least one processor of the computing device to:

customize the natural language presentation for a particular user interface environment or for a particular user profile.