Patent ID: 9130852
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by an analysis computer, information relating to monitored communications between user machines and a resource of a particular machine; receiving, by the analysis computer, group information that identifies groups of users; based on the monitored communications and the group information, generating a summary of a subset of users that have accessed the resource, wherein generating the summary comprises identifying, from the group information, a group of users that has accessed the resource, wherein identifying the group comprises selecting the identified group from plural groups that each covers users that have accessed the resource, and wherein the identified group is named in the summary instead of the users in the identified group, wherein the generating of the summary comprises solving an optimization problem that maximizes a sum of rewards and penalties, where a penalty is assessed for each group or individual name included in the summary and for each non-user of the resource covered by the summary, and a reward is assigned for each user of the resource covered by the summary; and using the generated summary during maintenance of an information technology (IT) resource.