Context driven user interfaces for storage systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12159145-B2
Application number	US-202117503556-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 18, 2021
Priority date	Oct 18, 2021
Publication date	Dec 3, 2024
Grant date	Dec 3, 2024

Abstract

Context driven user interfaces for storage systems including receiving, from a user account, a request to access a system interface for a system; identifying at least one critical system characteristic that describes a current aspect of the system; reconfiguring the system interface based on the at least one critical system characteristic; and presenting the reconfigured system interface to a user of the user account.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
determining, in response to a request from a user account to access a system interface for a system, a user role associated with the user account;
identifying, based on an evaluation of a plurality of current system characteristics, at least one system characteristic that needs user intervention;
reconfiguring the system interface based on the at least one system characteristic using the user role, including rendering one or more interactive visual elements that support a storage system administration task related to the at least one system characteristic; and
presenting the reconfigured system interface to a user of the user account.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein reconfiguring the system interface based on the at least one system characteristic comprises arranging visual elements within the system interface such that visual elements associated with the at least one system characteristic are made primary elements of the system interface.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the at least one system characteristic comprises selecting the at least one system characteristic from a ranked list of system characteristics based on criticality.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein reconfiguring the system interface based on the at least one system characteristic comprises arranging visual elements within the system interface based on the ranking of the at least one system characteristic in the ranked list of system characteristics.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein reconfiguring the system interface based on the at least one system characteristic comprises populating static objects in the system interface with visual elements associated with the at least one system characteristic.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one system characteristic comprises a storage utilization level of the system.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the least one system characteristic describes a current aspect of the system in relation to an external system.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one system characteristic is identified based on the request to access the system interface.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein reconfiguring the system interface is further based on an object relationship model.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the at least one system characteristic comprises selecting the at least one system characteristic by the user.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying, based on an evaluation of a plurality of current system characteristics, at least one system characteristic that needs user intervention includes determining that the at least one system characteristic is a critical system characteristic based on a change to a storage resource configuration in the system.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying, based on an evaluation of a plurality of current system characteristics, at least one system characteristic that needs user intervention includes determining that the at least one system characteristic is a critical system characteristic based on a change to a disaster recovery metric.

13. An apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:
determining, in response to a request from a user account to access a system interface for a system, a user role associated with the user account;
identifying, based on an evaluation of a plurality of current system characteristics, at least one system characteristic that needs user intervention;
reconfiguring the system interface based on the at least one system characteristic using the user role, including rendering one or more interactive visual elements that support a storage system administration task related to the at least one system characteristic; and
presenting the reconfigured system interface to a user of the user account.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein reconfiguring the system interface based on the at least one system characteristic comprises arranging visual elements within the system interface such that visual elements associated with the at least one system characteristic are made primary elements of the system interface.

15. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein identifying the at least one system characteristic comprises selecting the at least one system characteristic from a ranked list of system characteristics based on criticality.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein reconfiguring the system interface based on the at least one system characteristic comprises arranging visual elements within the system interface based on the ranking of the at least one system characteristic in the ranked list of system characteristics.

17. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein reconfiguring the system interface based on the at least one system characteristic comprises populating static objects in the system interface with visual elements associated with the at least one system characteristic.

18. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the at least one system characteristic comprises a storage utilization level of the system.

19. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the at least one system characteristic is identified based on the request to access the system interface.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer program instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of:
determining, in response to a request from a user account to access a system interface for a system, a user role associated with the user account;
identifying, based on an evaluation of a plurality of current system characteristics, at least one system characteristic that needs user intervention;
reconfiguring the system interface based on the at least one system characteristic using the user role, including rendering one or more interactive visual elements that support a storage system administration task related to the at least one system characteristic; and
presenting the reconfigured system interface to a user of the user account.

Assignees

• Pure Storage Inc

Inventors

• Darji Prakash
• Ma Steven
• Irwin Jonas

Classifications

• G06F9/451

  Execution arrangements for user interfaces · CPC title

• G06F3/067

  Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title

• G06F3/0653

  Monitoring storage devices or systems · CPC title

• G06F3/0632

  by initialisation or re-initialisation of storage systems · CPC title

• G06F9/44505 Primary

  Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files · CPC title