Deriving component statistics for a stream enabled application

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11119884-B2
Application number	US-201916653918-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 15, 2019
Priority date	Nov 7, 2007
Publication date	Sep 14, 2021
Grant date	Sep 14, 2021

Abstract

A technique for generating component usage statistics involves associating components with blocks of a stream-enabled application. When the streaming application is executed, block requests may be logged by Block ID in a log. The frequency of component use may be estimated by analyzing the block request log with the block associations.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
virtually installing an application, the installing including instantiating an instance of the application within a virtualized environment, the virtualized environment including an agent process associated with logging, the agent process having an associated delta transmission protocol;
generating a session identifier for the virtually installed application;
receiving one or more resource requests from the virtually installed application;
translating the one or more resource requests into a list including one or more blocks, the one or more blocks including one or more components of the virtually installed application;
providing the session identifier and block IDs of the one or more blocks to a raw log;
receiving the one or more blocks;
delivering a subset of block data of the one or more blocks to the virtualized environment;
satisfying the one or more resource requests of the virtually installed application using the subset of block data of the one or more blocks;
generating block access statistics from the raw log;
buffering, by the agent process, the block IDs of the one or more blocks;
transmitting, by the agent process, the buffer to subsequent logging processes.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a prior installation of the virtualized environment is required before instantiating the instance of the application within the virtualized environment.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the virtually installed application is executed multiple times and the method further comprises generating a session identifier for each instance of the virtually installed application.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the virtually installed application is executed concurrently in multiple virtualized environments and the method further comprises generating a session identifier for each instance of the virtually installed application.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the session identifier is used by the virtually installed application to identify itself as a source of a request for blocks, and as a destination for the blocks.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
using predictive streaming to determine resources that are likely to be requested by the virtually installed application;
adding, to the virtually installed application, the resources that are likely to be requested by the virtually installed application.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more blocks include one or more components of a stream-enabled application.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein an entry in the raw log associates the session identifier with the block IDs of the one or more blocks.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising maintaining a plurality of entries in the raw log.

10. The method of claim 8 , further comprising sending the raw log upstream to a streaming software server as entries are generated.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising formatting the raw log.

12. A system comprising:
means for virtually installing an application, the installing including instantiating an instance of the application within a virtualized environment, the virtualized environment including an agent process associated with logging, the agent process having an associated delta transmission protocol;
means for generating a session identifier for the virtually installed application;
means for receiving one or more resource requests from the virtually installed application;
means for translating the one or more resource requests into a list including one or more blocks, the one or more blocks including one or more components of the virtually installed application;
means for providing the session identifier and block IDs of the one or more blocks to a raw log;
means for receiving the one or more blocks;
means for delivering a subset of block data of the one or more blocks to the virtualized environment;
means for satisfying the one or more resource requests of the virtually installed application using the subset of block data of the one or more blocks;
means for generating block access statistics from the raw log;
means for buffering the block IDs of the one or more blocks;
means for transmitting the buffer to subsequent logging processes.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein a prior installation of the virtualized environment is required before instantiating the instance of the application within the virtualized environment.

14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the virtually installed application is executed multiple times and the system further comprises means for generating a session identifier for each instance of the virtually installed application.

15. The system of claim 12 , wherein the virtually installed application is executed concurrently in multiple virtualized environments and the system further comprises means for generating a session identifier for each instance of the virtually installed application.

16. The system of claim 12 , wherein the session identifier is used by the virtually installed application to identify itself as a source of a request for blocks, and as a destination for the blocks.

17. The system of claim 12 , further comprising:
means for using predictive streaming to determine resources that are likely to be requested by the virtually installed application;
means for adding, to the virtually installed application, the resources that are likely to be requested by the virtually installed application.

18. The system of claim 12 , wherein the one or more blocks include one or more components of a stream-enabled application.

19. The system of claim 12 , wherein an entry in the raw log associates the session identifier with the block IDs of the one or more blocks.

20. The system of claim 19 , further comprising means for maintaining a plurality of entries in the raw log.

21. The system of claim 19 , further comprising means for sending the raw log upstream to a streaming software server as entries are generated.

Assignees

• Numecent Holdings Inc

Inventors

• De Vries Jeffrey
• Hitomi Arthur S

Classifications

• G06F11/3476 Primary

  Data logging (G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence) · CPC title

• H04L65/764

  at the destination  (reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355) · CPC title

• G06F2201/865

  Monitoring of software · CPC title

• G06F9/463

  Program control block organisation · CPC title

• G06F17/18

  for evaluating statistical data {, e.g. average values, frequency distributions, probability functions, regression analysis (forecasting specially adapted for a specific administrative, business or logistic context G06Q10/04)} · CPC title