Server apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017366602-A1
Application number	US-201715426572-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 7, 2017
Priority date	Jun 21, 2016
Publication date	Dec 21, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

According to an embodiment, a server apparatus includes a first reception unit, a second reception unit, a classification unit, a second criterion selection unit, a group determination unit, and an individual determination unit. The second criterion selection unit selects, for each group and as a second criterion, a first criterion that is most likely to satisfy from among first criteria that are associated with pieces of identification information of first client apparatuses included in the group. The group determination unit determines whether first acquired data satisfies a second criterion for the group including a first client apparatus that has transmitted the first acquired data. The individual determination unit performs an individual determination process that determines whether the first acquired data satisfying the second criterion satisfies the first criterion associated with the identification information of the first client apparatus that has transmitted the first acquired data satisfying the second criterion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A server apparatus comprising:
a first reception unit configured to receive, from at least one first client apparatus, first reception data in which identification information for identifying the first. client apparatus and first acquired data that is acquired by the first client apparatus are associated with each other; a second reception unit configured to receive, from at least one second client apparatus, second reception data in which a first criterion for determining the first acquired data and the identification information are associated with each other; a classification unit configured to classify the at least one first client apparatus into at least one group; a second criterion selection unit configured to select, for each group and as a second criterion, a first criterion that is most likely to satisfy from among the first criteria that are associated with the pieces of identification information of the first client apparatuses included in the group; a group determination unit configured to determine whether the first acquired data satisfies the second criterion for the group including the first client apparatus that has transmitted the first acquired data; and an individual determination unit configured to perform an individual determination process that determines whether the first acquired data satisfying the second criterion satisfies the first criterion associated with the identification information of the first client apparatus that has transmitted the first acquired data satisfying the second criterion.

2 . The server apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a second acquired data selection unit configured to select, for each group and as second acquired data, the first acquired data by which the second criterion is most likely to satisfy from among the pieces of first acquired data that are respectively associated with the pieces of identification information of the first client apparatuses included in the group, wherein the group determination unit determines, for each group, whether the second acquired data satisfies the second criterion, and when the second acquired data satisfies the second criterion, the individual determination unit determines whether the first acquired data associated with the identification information of the first client apparatus included in a group in which the second acquired data satisfies the second criterion satisfies the first criterion associated with the identification information of the first client apparatus included in the group in which the second acquired data satisfies the second criterion.

3 . The server apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a first criterion storage unit configured to store the first criterion; and a second criterion storage unit configured to store the second criterion, wherein the second criterion storage unit has a read speed faster than a read seed of the first criterion storage unit.

4 . The server apparatus according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a first acquired data storage unit configured to store the first acquired data; and a second acquired data storage unit configured to store the second acquired data, wherein the second acquired data storage unit has a read speed faster than a read peed of the first acquired data storages unit.

5 . The server apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a notification unit configured to notify a predetermined notification destination that, when the first acquired data satisfies the first criterion, the first criterion has been satisfied.

6 . The server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the first criterion is for determining whether the first acquired data is equal to or greater than a first threshold, and the second criterion selection unit selects, for each group and as the second criterion, the first criterion that includes a minimum of the first threshold from among the first criteria that are associated with the pieces of identification information of the first client apparatuses included in the group.

7 . The server apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the first criterion is for determining whether the first acquired data is equal to or greater than a first threshold, and the second acquired data selection unit selects, for each group and as the second acquired data, a maximum of the acquired data from among the pieces of first acquired data that are associated with the pieces of identification information of the first client apparatuses included in the group.

8 . The server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, when the number of groups that includes the first client apparatus subjected to the individual determination process is equal to or greater than a second threshold, the classification unit increases the total number of groups.

9 . The server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the classification unit classifies the at least one first client apparatus into at least one group such that the first client apparatuses having similar first criteria preferentially belong to a same group.

10 . The server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the classification unit classifies the at least one first client apparatus into at least one group such that the first client apparatuses having similar acquired data preferentially belong to an identical group.

11 . The server apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the classification unit classifies the first client apparatuses such that each of the first client apparatuses belongs to the two or more groups, the group determination unit determines whether the second acquired data satisfies the second criterion with respect to a group that is yet to be processed and that is defined as a group to be processed, the group having a maximum number of first client apparatuses included in the group and, when the second acquired data satisfies the second criterion, determines whether the second acquired data satisfies the second criterion with respect to a group that is included in the group to be processed and that is defined as a new group to be processed, and when the number of first client apparatuses included in the group to be processed is smaller than a third threshold, the individual determination unit determines whether the first acquired data acquired by the first client apparatus included in the group to be processed satisfies the first criterion.

12 . An information processing method, comprising:
receiving, from at least one first client apparatus, first reception data in which identification information for identifying the first client apparatus and first acquired data that is acquired by the first client apparatus are associated with each other; receiving, from at least one second client apparatus, second reception data in which a first criterion for determining the first acquired data and the identification information are associated with each other; classifying the at least one first client apparatus into at least one group; selecting, for each group and as a second criterion, a first criterion that is most likely to satisfy from among the first criteria that are associated with the pieces of identification information of the first client apparatuses included in the group; determining whether the first acquired data satisfies the second criterion for the group including the first client apparatus that has transmitted the first acquired data; and performing an individual determination process that determines whether the first acquired data satisfying the second criterion satisfies the first criterion associated with the identification information of the first cli

Assignees

• Toshiba Kk

Inventors

• Kawazoe Hiroshi
• Ajitomi Daisuke
• Minami Keisuke
• Tazoe Koji

Classifications

• H04L67/10 Primary

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L67/303

  Terminal profiles · CPC title

• H04L67/26

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/42

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/55

  Push-based network services · CPC title