System and method to identify, gather, and detect reusable digital assets

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10671647-B2
Application number	US-201514822031-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 10, 2015
Priority date	Jun 8, 2015
Publication date	Jun 2, 2020
Grant date	Jun 2, 2020

Abstract

A method, system, and apparatus are provided for automating digital resource management by using monitored user interactions with digital resources to compute a user interaction metric for each digital resource upon detecting a role change for a first user having a user interaction history with the digital resources, where each user interaction metric indicates how important the first user is to the corresponding digital resource and is used to select and map a first digital resource to a second user to provide an ownership transition recommendation for the first digital resource in response to the role change for the first user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, in an information handling system comprising a processor and a memory, for automated digital resource management, the method comprising:
monitoring, by the system, user interactions with one or more digital resources using an automated agent installed on one or more user endpoint devices;
detecting, by the system, a role change for a first user having a user interaction history with the one or more digital resources;
computing, by the system, a usage profile for each digital resource associated with the first user based on the monitoring of the user interactions with the first user, where each usage profile indicates how important the first user is to the corresponding digital resource;
selecting, by the system, a first digital resource from the one or more digital resources based on a first usage profile for said first digital resource;
correlating, by the system, the first usage profile to a second usage profile for said first digital resource associated with a second user to identify an ownership transition recommendation for the first digital resource from the first user to the second user in response to the role change for the first user; and
generating, based on the correlating of the first and second usage profiles by the system, a graphical user interface comprising a visual identification of at least the first digital resource, a visual identification reflective of a relative importance of the first user to the first digital resource that is based on the first usage profile, and the ownership transition recommendation for the first digital resource from the first user to the second user.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein monitoring user interactions comprises recording digital resource ownership activity between the first user and the one or more digital resources over one or more specified time periods.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein detecting the role change for the first user comprises detecting deactivation of a user ID associated with the first user or detecting a change in the user ID associated with the first user.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein computing the usage profile comprises computing a first usage profile for the first digital resource based on the first user's access frequency, access recency, access type, access permission, or authorship relationship for the first digital resource, where the first usage profile indicates how important the first user is to the first digital resource.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein computing the usage profile comprises computing a first usage profile for the first digital resource based on a correlation measure between the first user's interaction dates with the first digital resource and predetermined project milestone dates associated with the first digital resource, where the first usage profile indicates how important the first user is to the first digital resource.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting the first digital resource comprises selecting the first digital resource when the first usage profile meets or exceeds a minimum threshold setting.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying, by the system, the ownership transition recommendation for the first digital resource.

8. A method, in an information handling system comprising a processor and a memory, for automated digital resource management, the method comprising:
monitoring, by the system, user interactions with one or more digital resources using an automated agent installed on one or more user endpoint devices;
detecting, by the system, a role change for a first user having a user interaction history with the one or more digital resources;
computing, by the system, a usage profile for each of the one or more digital resources based on the monitoring of the user interactions, where each usage profile indicates how important the first user is to the corresponding digital resource;
selecting, by the system, a first digital resource from the one or more digital resources which has a first usage profile which meets or exceeds a minimum threshold setting;
correlating, by the system, the first usage profile to a second usage profile for said first digital resource associated with a second user to identify an ownership transition recommendation for the first digital resource from the first user to the second user in response to the role change for the first user; and
generating, based on the correlating of the first and second usage profiles by the system, a graphical user interface visual identification comprising the ownership transition recommendation and a heat map visual identification of an importance measure for the first digital resource associated with the first user that is based on the first usage profile computed for the first digital resource.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein monitoring user interactions comprises recording digital resource ownership activity between the first user and the one or more digital resources over one or more specified time periods.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein detecting the role change for the first user comprises detecting deactivation of a user ID associated with the first user or detecting a change in the user ID associated with the first user.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein computing the usage profile comprises computing a first usage profile for the first digital resource based on the first user's access frequency, access recency, access type, access permission, or authorship relationship for the first digital resource, where the first user interaction metric indicates how important the first user is to the first digital resource.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein computing the usage profile comprises computing a first usage profile for the first digital resource based on a correlation measure between the first user's interaction dates with the first digital resource and predetermined project milestone dates associated with the first digital resource, where the first user interaction metric indicates how important the first user is to the first digital resource.

13. The method of claim 8 , further comprising displaying a visual identification of the first user, a heat map visual identification of an importance measure for each digital resource that is based the user interaction metric computed for the digital resource, and the ownership transition recommendation for the first digital resource associated with the first user.

14. A method, in an information handling system comprising a processor and a memory, for automated digital resource management, the method comprising:
monitoring, by the system, user interactions with one or more digital resources using an automated agent installed on one or more user endpoint devices;
detecting, by the system, a role change for a first user having a user interaction history with the one or more digital resources;
computing, by the system, a usage profile for each of the one or more digital resources based on monitoring of the first user's access frequency, access recency, access type, access permission, or authorship relationship for the first digital resource, where each usage profile indicates how important the first user is to the first digital resource;
selecting, by the system, a first digital resource from the one or more digital resources based on a first usage profile for said first digital resource;
correlating, by the system, the first usage profile to a second usage profile for said first digital resource associated with a second user to identify an ownership transition recommendation for the first digital resource from the first user to the

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Herrin Bradley C
• Johnson Jr Morris S
• Mcguigan Matthew T
• Stein Jarett

Classifications

• G06Q10/06313

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• G06Q10/063114 Primary

  Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group · CPC title

• G06F16/288 Primary

  Entity relationship models · CPC title