International Business Machines Corporation

Nike, Inc.

Sunil Bharadwaj

David Lynn Merbach

Kevin Joseph Webster

John Bouck

Li Zhou

Stephen A Byrd

Shankar Venkataraman

Sumant Padbidri

Rohit Wagle

Chitra Venkatramani

Raghuram R Velega

Anju Bansal

Xin Ru Wang

Robert Beverley Basham

Martine Bruce Wedlake

Allen Robert Heitman

Gary Thomas Axberg

Lisa Anne Huston

Wendy Lyn Henson

Michael Fiedler

William Tuminaro

Daryl Edward Mowrer

Stephen Byrd

A computer-implemented method for analyzing sport performance metrics and providing training feedback includes receiving play data for a plurality of users participating in a sporting activity; determining a statistical distribution of the performance metrics categorized by an ability level of each user; and receiving data indicating participation of the first user in the sporting activity. The server then determines a performance metric for the first user based on the received data and compares the performance metric to the statistical distribution of other users having a similar ability level as the first user. The server then identifies a deficient performance metric and transmits, to the user, a training program configured to improve the deficient performance metric.

Computerized method for analyzing sport performance metrics and providing training feedback

A method includes maintaining a plurality of sport-related ability metrics from a plurality of users, each of the plurality of users having a respective ability level or handicap that is within a predetermined tolerance of an ability level or handicap of an individual user; determining a statistical distribution of each of the plurality of ability metrics; receiving data from the individual user corresponding to the user's participation within a sporting activity; determining an ability metric from the data received from the individual user; generating a visual image that illustrates the determined ability metric within the statistical distribution; and displaying the visual image via the electronic user interface.

Digital golf assistant

A method includes maintaining a plurality of golf-related ability metrics from a plurality of users, each of the plurality of users having a respective scoring average or handicap that is within a predetermined tolerance of a scoring average or handicap of an individual user; determining a statistical distribution of each of the plurality of ability metrics; receiving score data from the individual user corresponding to a plurality of shots performed on a golf course; determining an ability metric from the score data received from the individual user; generating a visual image that illustrates the determined ability metric within the statistical distribution; and displaying the visual image via the electronic user interface.

A method includes receiving, from a user via an electronic user interface, an indication of a golf course to be played, providing a listing of challenges to the user, receiving score data from the user in a sequential, hole-by-hole manner, and populating an electronic scorecard with score data from a selected one of the listing of challenges together with the received score data in a sequential, hole-by-hole manner. The listing of challenges include at least one of a previously recorded round of golf played at the golf course, and a simulated opponent.

For automatic updates to fabric alert definitions, a method monitors fabric alert definitions defined for a storage area network having a plurality of switches and a plurality of fabrics. The fabric alert definitions define alert conditions within the storage area network relevant to events occurring within one or more of the plurality of fabrics. The method further detects one or more changes to the plurality of fabrics by discovering relationships between each fabric and each switch within the storage area network and comparing current relationships against previous relationships. In addition, the method automatically modifies fabric alert definitions having a reference to changed fabrics responsive to detection of the one or more changes to the plurality of fabrics.

Automatic updates to fabric alert definitions

Method, system, and computer program product to enforce application dependencies, by building a data model based on inputs specifying relationships between a plurality of applications, generating, based on the data model, a list of candidate executions for a first application having a specified relationship with a second application, and outputting a visual representation of the data model, the visual representation comprising a plurality of objects representing the plurality of applications and arranged to represent the relationships between the applications, the list of candidate executions, and one or more user interface elements allowing user navigation between the first application and the second application, of the list of candidate executions.

Chaining applications

A system, method and computer program product for intelligent discovery of network information from multiple information gathering agents adapted to discover information concerning the network. The discovery agents each have an associated discovery capability. Based on consideration of the agent discovery capabilities, discovery assignments are computed and network discovery is performed according to the assignments so as to reduce discovery poll overhead.

Intelligent discovery of network information from multiple information gathering agents

Tacit knowledge associated with software development problems may be shared by providing a framework configured to pre-process raw service data of a software product for identification of data elements. Pre-processing operations may be applied to the raw service data to extract data elements. An identified operating problem in the service data may be efficiently analyzed by referring to a repository of stored records that include previously performed user actions when facing the identified operating problem.

Framework and repository for analysis of software products

A system includes a recording interface configured for receiving tagged information for recording system interactions. A recording module is configured for communicating with the recording interface and for recording the system interactions from a first computing environment between at least one application and a common component based on the tagged information. A repository is configured for storing the recorded system interactions. A playback interface is configured for retrieving a portion of the stored system interactions from the repository and playing back the retrieved portion of system interactions for simulating system interactions for a second computing environment.

Recording and playback of system interactions in different system environments

Techniques for identifying and selecting equivalent sets of agents with defined capabilities to perform certain actions are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, determining agents to gather information for a storage area network fabric may be performed through the use of fabric discovery operations which identify agents capable of performing various actions within the fabric. From the determined capabilities of the agents, a dynamic capability grid may be populated to assist with the generation of a list of equivalent subsets to perform the various actions. The most efficient set of agents from each equivalent subset may then be selected to perform actions, with other sets of agents in the equivalent subset available as secondary choices in case of an unexpected failure. For example, a fabric probe may be executed in a storage area network using discovered agents from a list of equivalent subsets to most efficiently accomplish network operations such as zoning and topology.

Method of determining equivalent subsets of agents to gather information for a fabric

The present disclosure provides techniques for updating fabric alert definitions defined for a fiber channel or other fabric-based network within a storage management system. One embodiment provides techniques for detecting fabric merges, fabric segmentations, and principal switch changes of the fabric and modifying fabric alert definitions as a result of these changes. Thus, any alert definitions scoped by fabric will remain relevant even after fabric structural changes, and duplicate and/or redundant alerts may be reduced within the storage management system. In a further embodiment, detection of fabric changes is performed by first storing relationships between fabrics and switches, and comparing the current relationships between the fabrics and the switches against the stored relationships. Upon recognition of changes within the fabrics, the fabric alert definitions may be automatically analyzed and updated.

Automatic updates to fabric alert definitions for fabric segmentation, fabric merge, and fabric principal switch changes

An apparatus, system, and method are provided for configuring a network feature for a network fabric. The apparatus includes an input module, a discovery module, a selection module and an assignment module. The input module receives a network feature configuration for a network fabric. The discovery module determines the network feature capabilities of each of a plurality of agents coupled to the network fabric. The selection module selects a preferred agent from the plurality of agents. The assignment module assigns the preferred agent to apply the network feature configuration to the network fabric through a management interface coupling the preferred agent to the network fabric.

Apparatus, system, and method for configuring zone control of a network feature in a heterogeneous network

A method and apparatus are provided for performing zone entity modifications to entities in a network wherein a set of generic zone entity modification commands with an estimated lower processing cost is selected for each modification. Prior zone entity modifications in the network and the associated quantity of entities and processing time associated therewith are stored in a data structure. In response to a zone entity modification request, data associated with the current request is evaluated in view of processing time for prior zone entity modifications. An estimate of processing time for the zone entity modification request is calculated for at least two sets of generic zone entity modification commands. The set of generic commands with an estimated lower processing cost is selected and applied to the current zone entity modification request.

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Sunil Bharadwaj