Role-driven notification system including support for collapsing combinations

• US 9,219,749 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 12/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Khalsa, Suchet Singh, Shukla, Archana, Shetty, Prashant Kumar, Doering, Jeff, Arun, Gopalan
• Primary Examiner(s): SALL, EL HADJI MALICK
• Application Number:
  US13/835,307
• Publication Number:
  US 20140074999A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,012 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/206, 709/203, 709/200
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/122 using management policies backup systems G06F11/1446; file migration policies for HSM systems G06F16/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/178 Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems
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• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2365 Ensuring data consistency and integrity
• 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 16/273 Asynchronous replication or reconciliation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/283 Multi-dimensional databases or data warehouses, e.g. MOLAP or ROLAP
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/284 Relational databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06315 Needs-based resource requirements planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0633 Workflow analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0686 Additional information in the notification, e.g. enhancement of specific meta-data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/50 Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5041 characterised by the time relationship between creation and deployment of a service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5064 Customer relationship management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 : Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 : for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 : for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227
• 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

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention relate to a method of implementing role-driven notification. The method includes storing, by a cloud infrastructure system including computing devices, notification templates. Each of the notification templates are associated with a role. The method further includes determining that a user is associated with a first role and a second role, determining that the first role is associated with a first notification template and the second role is associated with a second notification template. Further, the method includes combining the first template and the second template to generate a third template, based on the third template, generating a notification. The method then, sends the notification to the user.

Claims

1. A method of implementing role-driven notification, the method comprising:

storing, by a cloud infrastructure system including a plurality of computing devices, a plurality of notification templates, wherein each of the plurality of notification templates is associated with a role of a plurality of roles;

determining, by a computing device of the plurality of computing devices, that a user is associated with a first role of the plurality of roles and that the user is associated with a second role of the plurality of roles;

determining, by the computing device of the plurality of computing devices, that the first role is associated with a first notification template of the plurality of notification templates and determining that the second role is associated with a second notification template of the plurality of notification templates;

combining, by the computing device of the plurality of computing devices, the first notification template and the second notification template to generate a third notification template;

based on the third notification template, generating, by the computing device of the plurality of computing devices, a notification; and

sending, by the computing device, the notification to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein combining the first notification template and the second notification template includes:

determining a redundancy between first notification information of the first notification template and second notification information of the second notification template;

removing the first notification information from the first notification template based on the redundancy; and

removing the second notification information from the second notification template based on the redundancy.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the third notification template includes a least amount of notification information from the first notification template and the second notification template.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of roles are arranged in a role hierarchy.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the plurality of notification templates are arranged in a notification template hierarchy which maps to the role hierarchy.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

determining, by the computing device, a location of the user in the role hierarchy and the notification template hierarchy;

based on the location, collapsing each of one or more child notification templates below the location in the notification template hierarchy into a single collapsed notification template; and

based on the single collapsed notification template, generating a collapsed notification, wherein the collapsed notification includes a fewest number of notifications included within the role hierarchy.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein at least two roles in the role hierarchy overlap with each other.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein restrictions are associated with one or more roles of the plurality of roles, and wherein a restriction restricts notification information from being included in the notification.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of notification templates are pre-registered, and wherein combining the first notification template and the second notification template occurs prior to runtime.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein notification information for each of the plurality of notification templates are stored in XML, and wherein an association of a role with a notification template is stored in metadata.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the first notification template is different from the second notification template.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of roles are arranged in a role hierarchy, wherein the plurality of notification templates are arranged in a notification template hierarchy that maps to the role hierarchy, and wherein the first notification template and the second notification template are combined based on a location of the first role and the second role in the role hierarchy.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the third notification template is generated by collapsing the first notification template and the second notification template into a collapsed notification template.

11. A cloud infrastructure system for implementing role-driven notification, the cloud infrastructure system comprising:

a processor; and

a storage device including sets of instructions stored thereon which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

store a plurality of notification templates, wherein each of the plurality of notification templates are associated with a role of a plurality of roles;

determine that a user is associated with a first role of the plurality of roles and determine that the user is associated with a second role of the plurality of roles;

determine that the first role is associated with a first notification template of the plurality of notification templates and determine that the second role is associated with a second notification template of the plurality of notification templates;

combine the first notification template and the second notification template to generate a third notification template;

based on the third notification template, generate a notification; and

send the notification to the user.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein combining the first notification template and the second notification template includes:

determining a redundancy between first notification information of the first notification template and second notification information of the second notification template;

removing the first notification information from the first notification template based on the redundancy; and

removing the second notification information from the second notification template based on the redundancy.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the plurality of roles are arranged in a role hierarchy.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the plurality of notification templates are arranged in a notification template hierarchy which maps to the role hierarchy.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the sets of instructions when further executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

determine a location of the user in the role hierarchy and the notification template hierarchy;

based on the location, collapse each of one or more child notification templates below the location in the notification template hierarchy into a single collapsed notification template; and

based on the single collapsed notification template, generate a collapsed notification, wherein the collapsed notification includes a fewest number of notifications included within the role hierarchy.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for implementing role-driven notifications having sets of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

store a plurality of notification templates, wherein each of the plurality of notification templates is associated with a role of a plurality of roles;

determine that a user is associated with a first role of the plurality of roles and determine that the user is associated with a second role of the plurality of roles;

determine that the first role is associated with a first notification template of the plurality of notification templates and determine that the second role is associated with a second notification template of the plurality ofi notification templates;

combine the first notification template and the second notification template to generate a third notification template;

based on the third notification template, generate a notification; and

send the notification to the user.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein restrictions are associated with one or more roles of the plurality of roles, and wherein a restriction restricts notification information from being included in the notification.