Utilizing analytic data to generate crowd-based custom logic units

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10929793-B2
Application number	US-201715668275-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 3, 2017
Priority date	Aug 3, 2017
Publication date	Feb 23, 2021
Grant date	Feb 23, 2021

Abstract

A mechanism is provided for generating crowd-based custom logic units for use in storage management. Responsive to receiving analytic data from a set of storage device managers about how users interact with the set of storage device managers, the analytics data is analyzed in order to gain one or more insights into how users interact with the set of storage device managers. One or more logic units are then generated utilizing the one or more insights. The one or more logic units are then sent to one or more storage device managers in the set of storage device managers in order that the users of the one or more storage device managers utilize the one or more logic units to perform their daily tasks more efficiently.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and a memory coupled to the at least one processor, for generating crowd-based custom logic units for use in storage management, the method comprising:
responsive to receiving analytic data from a set of storage device managers on a set of customer devices about how users interact with a set of storage devices on the set of customer devices managed by a respective storage device manager, analyzing the analytics data in order to gain one or more insights into how users interact with the set of storage devices using the respective storage manager;
utilizing the one or more insights, generating one or more logic units that will allow the users to perform their daily tasks more efficiently; and
transmitting the one or more logic units to one or more storage device managers in the set of storage device managers so that the one or more storage device managers integrate the one or more logic units and the users of the one or more storage device managers and the respective set of storage devices on the set of customer devices utilize the one or more logic units to perform their daily tasks more efficiently.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the analytic data includes interactions with the respective storage device manager performed by the user and results obtained based on the interactions with the respective storage device manager thereby allowing for mimicking the same interactions on one or more other unrelated systems.

3. The method of claim 1 , each logic unit of the one or more logic units is at least one of a plug-in, plugin, addin, add-on, addon, or other extension that is a software component that adds a specific feature to the one or more storage device managers.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein sending the one or more logic units to one or more storage device managers in the set of storage device managers comprises:
pushing the one or more the logic units to the one or more storage device managers; and
notifying a user of each of the one or more storage devices managers that the one or more logic units are available.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein sending the one or more logic units to one or more storage device managers in the set of storage device managers comprises:
notifying each user of the one or more storage device managers that one or more logic units are available; and
responsive to the user selecting a particular one of the one or more logic units, downloading the selected logic unit to the respective storage device manager.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein analyzing the analytics data in order to gain the one or more insights further comprises:
grouping the analytic data based on a result obtained.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more insights comprises at least one of identifying common usage patterns, identifying user characteristics, identifying methods or routes performed by the users to obtain a same result, identifying common cases and responses, or identifying common actions blocks that preform a same flow.

8. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to:
responsive to receiving analytic data from a set of storage device managers on a set of customer devices about how users interact with a set of storage devices on the set of customer devices managed by a respective storage device manager, analyze the analytics data in order to gain one or more insights into how users interact with the set of storage devices using the respective storage manager;
utilizing the one or more insights, generate one or more logic units that will allow the users to perform their daily tasks more efficiently; and
transmit the one or more logic units to one or more storage device managers in the set of storage device managers so that the one or more storage device managers integrate the one or more logic units and the users of the one or more storage device managers and the respective set of storage devices on the set of customer devices utilize the one or more logic units to perform their daily tasks more efficiently.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the analytic data includes interactions with the respective storage device manager performed by the user and results obtained based on the interactions with the respective storage device manager thereby allowing for mimicking the same interactions on one or more other unrelated systems.

10. The computer program product of claim 8 , each logic unit of the one or more logic units is at least one of a plug-in, plugin, addin, add-on, addon, or other extension that is a software component that adds a specific feature to the one or more storage device managers.

11. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the computer readable program to send the one or more logic units to one or more storage device managers in the set of storage device managers further causes the computing device to:
push the one or more the logic units to the one or more storage device managers; and
notify a user of each of the one or more storage devices managers that the one or more logic units are available.

12. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the computer readable program to send the one or more logic units to one or more storage device managers in the set of storage device managers further causes the computing device to:
notify each user of the one or more storage device managers that one or more logic units are available; and
responsive to the user selecting a particular one of the one or more logic units, download the selected logic unit to the respective storage device manager.

13. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the computer readable program to analyze the analytics data in order to gain the one or more insights further causes the computing device to:
group the analytic data based on a result obtained.

14. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the one or more insights comprises at least one of identifying common usage patterns, identifying user characteristics, identifying methods or routes performed by the users to obtain a same result, identifying common cases and responses, or identifying common actions blocks that preform a same flow.

15. An apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
responsive to receiving analytic data from a set of storage device managers on a set of customer devices about how users interact with a set of storage devices on the set of customer devices managed by a respective storage device manager, analyze the analytics data in order to gain one or more insights into how users interact with the set of storage devices using the respective storage manager;
utilizing the one or more insights, generate one or more logic units that will allow the users to perform their daily tasks more efficiently; and
transmit the one or more logic units to one or more storage device managers in the set of storage device managers so that the one or more storage device managers integrate the one or more logic units and the users of the one or more storage device managers and the respective set of storage devices on the set of customer devices utilize the one or more logic units to perform their daily tasks more efficiently.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 ,

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Lereya Daniel
• Parag Nadav
• Shalikashvili Vladimir
• Weiss Moshe

Classifications

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