Systems and Methods for Indicating Deployment of Application Features

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016308733-A1
Application number	US-201514690741-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 20, 2015
Priority date	Apr 20, 2015
Publication date	Oct 20, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided are systems and methods for indicating deployment of application features. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes determining available features of a current deployment of an application for receiving machine-generated data from one or more data sources of a data system, determining un-deployed features of the current deployment of the application, wherein the un-deployed features comprise one or more of the available features that is configured to use input data from a data source and wherein the input data is not available to the feature in the current deployment of the application, and causing display of a deployment graphical user interface (GUI) that comprises an indication of the un-deployed features.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
determining available features of a current deployment of an application for receiving machine-generated data from one or more data sources of a data system; determining un-deployed features of the current deployment of the application, wherein the un-deployed features comprise one or more of the available features that is configured to use input data from a data source and wherein the input data is not available to the feature in the current deployment of the application; and causing display of a deployment graphical user interface (GUI) that comprises an indication of the un-deployed features.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining un-deployed features comprises determining at least one of the available features that is configured to use input data from a data source and for which the current deployment of the application is not properly configured to receive the input data from the data source.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining un-deployed features comprises determining at least one of the available features that is configured to use input data from a data source and for which the input data is not received from the data source in the current deployment of the application.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining un-deployed features comprises determining at least one of the available features that is configured to use input data from a data source and for which the data source is not providing the input data in the current deployment of the application.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining un-deployed features comprises determining at least one of the available features that is configured to use input data from a data source and for which the current deployment of the application is properly configured to receive the input data from the data source in the current deployment of the application and the input data is not received from the data source in the current deployment of the application.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining un-deployed features comprises determining at least one of the available features that is configured to use input data from a data source and for which and the current deployment of the application does not include an application to provide the input data from the data source.

7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining that a hardware element for providing the input data is not present or is not configured to provide the input data.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining that hardware of the system in which the current deployment of the application is deployed does not include a hardware element for receiving or processing the input data from the data source.

9 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising, for each of at least one of the un-deployed features:
determining a condition to deploy the un-deployed feature, wherein the deployment GUI comprises an indication of the condition.

10 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising, for each of at least one of the un-deployed features:
determining a condition to deploy the un-deployed feature, wherein the deployment GUI comprises, an indication of the condition, and wherein the indication of the condition comprises an interactive link that is user selectable to cause the condition to be condition to be satisfied to deploy the un-deployed feature or to navigate to a location for satisfying the condition to deploy the un-deployed feature.

11 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising, for each of at least one of the un-deployed features:
determining a condition to deploy the un-deployed feature, wherein the condition comprises linking to a data source, and wherein the deployment GUI comprises an interactive link that is user selectable to cause the linking to the data source or to navigate to a location for configuring the linking to the data source.

12 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising, for each of at least one of the un-deployed features:
determining a condition to deploy the un-deployed feature, wherein the condition comprises installing an application, and wherein the deployment GUI comprises an interactive link that is user selectable to cause installation of the application or to navigate to a location for installing the application.

13 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising, for each of at least one of the un-deployed features:
determining a condition to deploy the un-deployed feature, wherein the deployment GUI comprises an interactive link that is user selectable to navigate to instructions for satisfying the condition to deploy the un-deployed feature.

14 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising, for each of at least one of the un-deployed features:
determining a condition to deploy the un-deployed feature, wherein the condition comprises purchase of an item; directing a user to a network site for purchasing the item.

15 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising, for each of at least one of the un-deployed features:
determining a condition to deploy the un-deployed feature, wherein the condition comprises obtaining an item from a third party; directing a user to a network site for the third party.

16 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising, for each of at least one feature of the un-deployed features:
determining a condition to deploy the un-deployed feature, determining the condition is satisfied; and causing display of an updated deployment GUI to that comprises an updated indication of the un-deployed features, wherein the at least one feature is not included in the updated indication of the un-deployed features.

17 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
identifying deployed features comprising one or more of the available features that are each configured to use input data from a data source and for which the current deployment of the application is configured to provide the input data for use by the feature, wherein the deployment GUI comprises an indication of the deployed features.

18 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the deployment GUI comprises an indication of a number of the un-deployed features.

19 . The method of claim 1 , determining un-deployed data models, wherein the un-deployed data models each comprise a data model that is associated with one or more of the un-deployed features of the data analysis application, and
wherein the deployment GUI comprises a data model deployment status indicating the un-deployed data models.

20 . The method of claim 1 , determining un-deployed data models using a mapping of features to data models, wherein the un-deployed data models each comprise a data model that is mapped to one or more of the un-deployed features of the data analysis application, and
wherein the deployment GUI comprises a data model deployment status indicating the un-deployed data models.

21 . The method of claim 1 , determining un-deployed data models, wherein the un-deployed data models each comprise a data model that is associated with one or more of the un-deployed features of the data analysis application, and
wherein the deployment GUI comprises an indication of a number of the un-deployed data models.

22 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the available features employ predefined search criteria for searching the machine-generated data.

23 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the application i

Assignees

• Splunk Inc

Inventors

• Chauhan Vijay
• Lai Liu-Yuan
• Yu Wenhui
• Murphey Luke
• Hazekamp David

Classifications

• G06F8/62

  Uninstallation · CPC title

• G06F8/60

  Software deployment · CPC title

• G06F8/61

  Installation · CPC title

• H04L67/02 Primary

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• H04L67/34 Primary

  involving the movement of software or configuration parameters  (network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416) · CPC title