Patent ID: 11886296
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A method comprising:
obtaining information about driver installations of a given driver on a plurality of computing devices from the plurality of computing devices;
obtaining information about system failures from the plurality of computing devices;
determining a correlation between the driver installations of the given driver on the plurality of computing devices and the system failures;
determining that the given driver is likely to cause at least one of the system failures based at least in part on the determined correlation between the driver installations of the given driver on the plurality of computing devices and the system failures; and
providing an indication that the given driver is likely to cause at least one of the system failures to a given computing device, the indication being configured to cause the given computing device to inhibit a presentation of a recommendation to install the given driver to a user of the given computing device;
wherein the method further comprises determining a failure rate cutoff value; and
determining that the given driver is likely to cause at least one of the system failures based at least in part on the determined correlation between the driver installations of the given driver on the plurality of computing devices and the system failures comprises determining that a rate of the system failures is greater than the failure rate cutoff value;
wherein the method is implemented by at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to memory.