US 12,598,202 B2Granted

System and method for prioritizing limited resources for security management

AssigneeDell Products L.P.

InventorsIan Roche, Philip E. Hummel, Dharmesh M. Patel

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Abstract

Methods and systems for providing security management services are disclosed. To provide security management services in a manner that reduces the quantity of hardware resources necessary to provide the security management services, the security manager may prioritize security management services based on the likelihood of individuals posing a security risk. To identify the security risks of the individuals, the paths of the individuals may be tracked and compared to typical paths through environments that are followed by most individuals that traverse through the environment. The individuals following a typical path may not indicate a security risk and a resource prioritization may be retained or decreased for the individuals not posing a security risk. The individuals not following a typical path may indicate a security risk and a resource prioritization may be increased for the individuals posing a security risk.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for prioritizing limited computing resources based on abnormal behaviors of individuals, the method comprising:

obtaining an inference for an individual of the individuals using:
an inference model trained to generate inferences indicating typical paths through an environment in which the individual resides,
a start position for the individual, and
a stop position for the individual;
making a determination, using the inference, regarding whether the individual is following a typical path of the typical paths through the environment between the start position and the stop position, wherein making the determination comprises obtaining position data that was obtained from a position sensor, and the position data is based on a location of the individual at a point in time;
in a first instance of the determination where the individual is not following the typical path:
increasing a resource prioritization of the limited computing resources for the individual by at least one of increasing a quantity of position sensors used to monitor the individual or increasing a quantity of collection of position data for the individual and a rate of analysis of the position data for the individual;
and
in a second instance of the determination where the individual is following the typical path:
retaining or decreasing the resource prioritization of the limited computing resources for the individual.

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A data processing system, comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations for prioritizing limited computing resources based on abnormal behaviors of individuals, the operations comprising:
obtaining an inference for an individual of the individuals using:
an inference model trained to generate inferences indicating typical paths through
an environment in which the individual resides,
a start position for the individual, and
a stop position for the individual;
making a determination, using the inference, regarding whether the individual is following a typical path of the typical paths through the environment between the start position and the stop position, where in making the determination comprises obtaining position data that was obtained from a position sensor, and the position data is based on a location of the individual at a point in time;
in a first instance of the determination where the individual is not following the typical path
increasing a resource prioritization of the limited computing resources for the individual by at least one of increasing a quantity of position sensors used to monitor the individual or increasing a quantity of collection of position data for the individual and a rate of analysis of the position data for the individual;
and
in a second instance of the determination where the individual is following the typical path:
retaining or decreasing the resource prioritization of the limited computing resources for the individual.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.