Supporting repetitive operations within an operating system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10592489-B2
Application number	US-201615366280-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 1, 2016
Priority date	Dec 1, 2016
Publication date	Mar 17, 2020
Grant date	Mar 17, 2020

Abstract

A computer-implemented method and computer processing system are provided. The method includes intercepting, by a processor, a sequence of data elements related to an interaction between a user and a user interface of a computer system that includes the processor. The method further includes identifying, by the processor, atomic operations within the sequence and metadata associated with the atomic operations. The method also includes calculating, by the processor, correlation indexes from the metadata. A respective correlation index is calculated for various atomic operation groups formed from the atomic operations. The method additionally includes identifying, by the processor, a macro operation from at least one of the correlation indexes. The macro operation includes multiple correlated atomic operations from among the atomic operations identified within the sequence.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
intercepting, by a processor, a sequence of data elements related to an interaction between a user and a user interface of a computer system that includes the processor;
identifying, by the processor, atomic operations within the sequence and metadata associated with the atomic operations;
calculating, by the processor, correlation indexes from the metadata, wherein a respective correlation index is calculated for various atomic operation groups formed from the atomic operations; and
identifying, by the processor, a macro operation from at least one of the correlation indexes, the macro operation including multiple correlated atomic operations from among the atomic operations identified within the sequence,
wherein at least some of the correlation indexes are calculated between an output of a respective one of atomic operations and an input of another respective one of the atomic operations.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the atomic operations include data movement operations, and wherein the metadata associated with the atomic operations comprises one or more data elements to be moved by the data movement operations.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the correlation index is calculated based on a percentage of occurrence of the atomic operations that relate to same ones of the one or more data elements from among all of the atomic operations.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the metadata associated with the atomic operations comprises one or more identifiers that respectively identify one or more objects affected by the atomic operations.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , wherein the correlation index is calculated based on a percentage of occurrence of the atomic operations that relate to same ones of the one or more objects from among all of the atomic operations.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the macro operation comprises calculating an overall correlation index based on the correlation indexes of candidate atomic operations to be included in the macro operation.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the correlation indexes comprises a plurality of correlation indexes, and wherein the identified macro operation is identified based on a largest one of the at least one of the correlation indexes.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the macro operation is identified as a candidate macro operation that includes a largest number of atomic operations from among a set of candidate macro operations.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
forming an abstraction layer for an operating system of the computer system based on the atomic operations and the macro operation; and
detecting patterns in a given operation sequence relative to the atomic operations and the macro operation, using the abstraction layer.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising storing each of the atomic operations in a memory of the computer system, wherein for a given atomic operation, the atomic operation is stored along with metadata describing the given atomic operation, a data instance for the given atomic operation, and timestamp data for the given atomic operation.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising automatically completing any remaining operations in the given operation sequence, responsive to detecting a match between data relating to the given operation sequence and data relating to any of the atomic operations and the macro operation.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the data relating to the given operation sequence and data relating to any of the atomic operations and the macro operation comprises metadata.

13. A computer program product for operation management, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform a method comprising:
intercepting, by a processor, a sequence of data elements related to an interaction between a user and a user interface of a computer system that includes the processor;
identifying, by the processor, atomic operations within the sequence and metadata associated with the atomic operations;
calculating, by the processor, correlation indexes from the metadata, wherein a respective correlation index is calculated for various atomic operation groups formed from the atomic operations; and
identifying, by the processor, a macro operation from at least one of the correlation indexes, the macro operation including multiple correlated atomic operations from among the atomic operations identified within the sequence,
wherein at least some of the correlation indexes are calculated between an output of a respective one of atomic operations and an input of another respective one of the atomic operations.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the at least one of the correlation indexes comprises a plurality of correlation indexes, and wherein the identified macro operation is identified based on a largest one of the at least one of the correlation indexes.

15. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the method further comprises:
forming an abstraction layer for an operating system of the computer system based on the atomic operations and the macro operation; and
detecting patterns in a given operation sequence relative to the atomic operations and the macro operation, using the abstraction layer.

16. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the method further comprises storing each of the atomic operations in a memory of the computer system, wherein for a given atomic operation, the atomic operation is stored along with metadata describing the given atomic operation, a data instance for the given atomic operation, and timestamp data for the given atomic operation.

17. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the method further comprises automatically completing any remaining operations in the given operation sequence, responsive to detecting a match between data relating to the given operation sequence and data relating to any of the atomic operations and the macro operation.

18. A computer processing system, comprising:
a processor, configured to:
intercept a sequence of data elements related to an interaction between a user and a user interface of a computer system that includes the processor;
identify atomic operations within the sequence and metadata associated with the atomic operations;
calculate correlation indexes from the metadata, wherein a respective correlation index is calculated for various atomic operation groups formed from the atomic operations; and
identify a macro operation from at least one of the correlation indexes, the macro operation including multiple correlated atomic operations from among the atomic operations identified within the sequence,
wherein at least some of the correlation indexes are calculated between an output of a respective one of atomic operations and an input of another respective one of the atomic operations.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Bonazzoli Simone
• Borgianni Marco
• Falcone Claudio
• Fioravanti Alessio
• Gorga Ilaria
• Longobardi Giuseppe
• Lutri Silvano
• Presti Luigi
• Salerno Paolo
• Ziantoni Francesca

Classifications

• G06F16/907 Primary

  Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually · CPC title

• G06F9/451

  Execution arrangements for user interfaces · CPC title

• G06F16/2228 Primary

  Indexing structures · CPC title