Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automated determination of relative asset importance in an enterprise system
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Application No.: US16229075Application Date: 2018-12-21
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Publication No.: US10938847B2Publication Date: 2021-03-02
- Inventor: Sashka T. Davis , Kevin T. Douglas , Zulfikar A. Ramzan
- Applicant: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Applicant Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Current Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Agency: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06

Abstract:
A method includes obtaining usage metrics for assets of an enterprise system and extracting sets of features from the obtained usage metrics, the sets of features characterizing relative importance of each of the assets for each of two or more designated time windows. The method also includes determining, utilizing the extracted features, an importance of each of the assets. The method further includes establishing a baseline behavior of the assets based on the extracted features, monitoring behavior of the assets during at least one additional time window, and modifying a configuration of a given asset responsive to detecting that the monitored behavior of the given asset during the at least one additional time window exhibits a threshold difference from the established baseline behavior of the given asset, wherein the modification is based at least in part on the importance of the given asset relative to one or more other assets.
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