Management of records for an electronic device

• US 9,113,000 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2013
• Issued: 08/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Havican, David J., Stuckless, Sean L., Thompson, Timothy J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramakrishnaiah, Melur
• Application Number:
  US13/973,091
• Publication Number:
  US 20150058366A1
• Time in Patent Office: 726 Days
• Field of Search: 379/93.25, 379/90.01, 379/93.02, 379/93.03, 379/93.05, 379/93.06, 379/93.07, 709/219, 709/223, 707/999.01, 707/10
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/44 Augmented, consolidated or itemized billing statement or bill presentation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/58 based on statistics of usage or network monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/62 based on trigger specification
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/70 Administration or customization aspects; Counter-checking correct charges
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/74 Backing up
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A method, computer system, and computer-readable storage media are provided. The method can include identifying a set of one or more rules in response to an offline event for the remote device. The method can also include determining, based upon the offline event, one or more usage factors from one or more rules that identify at least one usage factor. The method can also include measuring, using the remote device, the determined one or more usage factors. The method can also include generating a filter from the set of one or more rules based off the measured one or more usage factors. The method can also include filtering the plurality of records from the online-accessible database to produce a set of filtered records. The method can also include transmitting the set of filtered records to the remote device.

Claims

1. A computing system for filtering a plurality of records and transmitting one or more filtered records from the plurality of records to a remote device, comprising:

an online-accessible record database containing the plurality of records;

a usage factor database containing one or more usage factors; and

one or more computer processors including;

a rule module containing one or more rules, each rule having a condition and a response to the condition, the rule module having components of;

a rule module extractor configured to operate on the one or more computer processors to determine, from the condition of the rule, the usage factors for the remote device; and

a filter module operating on the one or more computer processors configured to;

filter, responsive to an offline event and based on a comparison of the rule with the usage factor, the plurality of records to create a filtered record; and

transmit the filtered record to a remote device.

2. The computing system of claim 1, further comprising the remote device and wherein the remote device is configured to measure the usage factor.

3. The computing system of claim 2, wherein the usage factor database is configured to synchronize the measured usage factor from the remote device with the one or more usage factors in the usage factor database.

4. The computing system of claim 2, wherein the usage factor is a location of the remote device.

5. The computing system of claim 2, wherein the usage factor is measured by the remote device in response to a presence of capabilities of the remote device.

6. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the comparison of the rule with the usage factor includes the usage factor matching the condition of the rule.

7. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the offline event includes an indication that a remote device will lose network access.

8. The computing system of claim 7 wherein the indication is of a signal strength that declines as a function of time.

9. A non-transitory computer program product for controlling data transmission between an online-accessible database containing a plurality of records and a remote device, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code readable by a computer to cause the computer to:

identify a set of one or more rules in response to an offline event for a the remote device;

determine, based upon the offline event, one or more usage factors from one or more rules that identify at least one usage factor;

measure, using the remote device, the determined one or more usage factors;

generate a filter from the set of one or more rules based off the measured one or more usage factors;

filter from the plurality of records on the online-accessible database to produce a set of filtered records; and

transmit the set of filtered records to the remote device.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the determine one or more usage factors also includes:

determining a condition of the set of one or more rules;

identifying a particular usage factor for the condition; and

transmitting the particular usage factor to a usage factor database.

11. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein measure the one or more usage factors includes accessing a usage factor list.

12. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein measure the one or more usage factors includes updating a usage factor database in response to an absence of a measurement for the one or more usage factors.