Patent ID: 7996353
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: G06N,H04L

Abstract:
1. An adaptive policy-based management system for computing systems comprising: a means for representing the occurrences of computer system events and action response policies from computing system resources into a first event-policy data structure; a means for constructing a second event-policy data structure from said first event-policy data structure, said second event-policy data structure representing an event-policy vector space comprising associative patterns and correlations in the event-policy data; a means for receiving observed event data set from a computing system resource; a means for recommending a policy for said observed event data set based on existing policy vectors in said constructed event-policy vector space; a means for updating of said first event-policy data structure and said second event-policy data structure representing said event-policy vector space as new observed event data sets are received, thereby increasing accuracy in generating recommended policies as new event knowledge is input, said means for recommending a policy for said observed event data set comprising: wherein said means for determining a recommended policy comprises means for applying a similarity metric between said pseudo-policy vector and one or more policy vectors, said applied similarity metric including a dot product function, said recommended policy comprising a policy vector based on a resulting dot product value within a threshold value; and, wherein more than one policy vectors provide dot product values below said threshold value, said system further comprising means for merging said more policy vectors to form a resultant recommended policy.