Patent ID: 8074124
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system that identifies soft device failures within a system, comprising: an interface that captures transactional data between one or more users and one or more devices within the system and determines a primary device for each user based on an exclusive use of the primary device by the user for a time greater than a threshold, the interface computing a list of the one or more users sharing the primary device; a data log that receives the transactional data from the interface and stores the data as historical data for subsequent retrieval; a warning system that evaluates the historical data corresponding to the list and the primary device in the data log to identify a soft failure condition, wherein an alarm is output for each soft failure identified; and a display module that combines the historical data from the data log and one or more alarms from the warning system into a single display for review, wherein the display includes a plot of the primary device usage as a percentage of the system.