US 2019/0057019 A1 · DYNAMIC DEVICE CLUSTERING

Abstract

A cluster of devices can be identified where results from executing a test by any cluster devices can be considered as being from the same device. Thus, instead of waiting for a single device to produce comparable results, multiple devices from the same cluster can simultaneously perform the test and obtain the needed set of test results more quickly. The technology can identify clusters of devices that are all similar to a primary cluster device. A device pair can be considered similar when (1) a mean each of a set of test results from each device are within a first threshold of each other, (2) a measurement of the consistency of each test result set are within a second threshold of each other, and (3) a measurement of the consistency of a combination of the test results sets is between the consistency measurements of the individual test result sets.

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Dependent claims

A method for identifying a cluster of devices, the method comprising:

selecting a set of candidate devices;
receiving a procedure executable on each of the candidate devices;
causing two or more of the candidate devices to perform the procedure, wherein each of the two or more of the candidate devices produces logged results in response to performing the procedure;
selecting a particular pair of candidate devices of the two or more candidate devices;
computing a delta between the logged results produced by each candidate device of the particular pair of candidate devices;
based on determining that the delta is below a delta threshold, identifying the particular pair of candidate devices as similar candidate devices;
and
identifying the cluster of devices as the set of devices that includes both:
a primary device of the candidate devices that has been most often identified as similar to other devices of the candidate devices, and
a group of one or more devices including devices that have been determined to be similar to the primary device.

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A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations for identifying a cluster of devices, the operations comprising:

causing two or more candidate devices to perform a procedure, wherein each of the two or more of the candidate devices produces logged results in response to performing the procedure;
selecting multiple pairs of the two or more candidate devices;
for each particular pair of candidate devices, of the multiple pairs:
computing a delta between the logged results produced by each candidate devices of the particular pair of candidate devices;
and
performing a classification of the particular pair of candidate devices that excludes the particular pair of candidate devices from being identified as similar candidate devices when the delta is above a delta threshold;
and
identifying the cluster of devices as the set of devices that includes both:
a primary device of the candidate devices that has been most often identified as similar to other devices of the candidate devices, and
a group of one or more devices including devices that have been determined to be similar to the primary device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Dynamic device clustering

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Dynamic device clustering

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Abstract

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