Dynamic status reporting
View Patent ↗Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive the execution status of a user application, and to transmit the state of a dynamic user status indication, based on the execution status, to a user status reporting application. The state may be changed according to a system administration policy configuration. In some embodiments, activities include changing the state of a dynamic user status indication (included as part of a user status reporting application) based on the execution status of a user application. Changing the status may be conducted according to a user-specified configuration policy or a system administration policy configuration. Further activity may include transmitting the state to at least one additional application to enable display of the state across a network. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
1. An apparatus, comprising:
an adjustment module to change a state of a dynamic user status indication in a user status reporting application based on activity of a user computation platform, the activity including execution status of a user application executing on the user computation platform, the change based on a user-specified configuration policy or a system administration policy configuration, the execution status derived from an externally observable characteristic of the user application, the externally observable characteristics including percent utilization of a processor and a type of hardware port used; and
a hardware transmission module to:
periodically obtain the state of the dynamic user status indication;
publish the state of the dynamic user status indication, along with a time of change associated with the status; and
transmit the state of the dynamic user status indication to at least one additional application to enable display of the dynamic user status indication across a network.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a monitoring module to monitor the execution status.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a display to display a log of the state of the dynamic user status indication over time.
4. A system, comprising:
a first hardware node to house:
an adjustment module to change a state of a dynamic user status indication in a user status reporting application based on activity of a user computation platform, the activity including execution status of a user application executing on the user computation platform, the change based on a user-specified configuration policy or a system administration policy configuration, the execution status derived from an externally observable characteristic of the user application, the externally observable characteristics including percent utilization of a processor and a type of hardware port used; and
a transmission module to:
periodically obtain the state of the dynamic user status indication;
publish the state of the dynamic user status indication, along with a time of change associated with the status; and
transmit the state of the dynamic user status indication to at least one additional application to enable display of the dynamic user status indication across a network; and
a second node to access the system administration policy configuration.
5. The system of claim 4 , further comprising:
a third node to house a memory element to store the system administration policy configuration.
6. The system of claim 4 , further comprising:
a third node coupled to a display to display the dynamic user status indication as a part of the at least one additional application comprising a word processor.
7. A processor-implemented method to execute on one or more processors that perform the method, comprising:
changing a state of a dynamic user status indication in a user status reporting application based on activity of a user computation platform, the activity including execution status of a user application executing on the user computation platform, the changing based on a user-specified configuration policy or a system administration policy configuration, the execution status derived from externally observable characteristics of the user application, the externally observable characteristics including percent utilization of a processor and a type of hardware port used;
periodically obtaining the state of the dynamic user status indication;
publishing the state of the dynamic user status indication, along with a time of change associated with the status; and
transmitting the state of the dynamic user status indication to at least one additional application to enable display of the state of the dynamic user status indication across a network.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the transmitting further comprises:
transmitting the state of the dynamic user status indication including a local user time.
9. The method of claim 7 , wherein
the activity includes memory usage in a node executing the user status reporting application.
10. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
receiving a user-initiated request to add the dynamic user status indication to a display of the user status reporting application.
11. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
transmitting at least one of a current version of the state of the dynamic user status indication or a log including at least one prior version of the state of the dynamic user status indication, to the administrative node.
12. A processor-implemented method to execute on one or more processors that perform the method, comprising:
receiving activity information of a user computation platform, the activity information including execution status of a user application executing on the user computation platform, the execution status derived from externally observable characteristics of the user application, the externally observable characteristics including percent utilization of a processor and a type of hardware port used;
periodically obtaining the state of the dynamic user status indication; and
publishing the state of the dynamic user status indication, along with a time of change associated with the status; and
transmitting a state of a dynamic user status indication based on the execution status to a user status reporting application, a change of the state of the dynamic user status indication based on a system administration policy configuration.
13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
recording a log of the state of the dynamic status indication over a selected period of time.
14. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
receiving a revised version of the state of the dynamic user status indication based on an event associated with a node executing the user application; and
responsive to receiving the revised version, changing the state of the dynamic user status indication to match the revised version.
15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the event comprises at least one of a unique time or a user relocating to a different physical location.
16. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
receiving a change to the system administration policy configuration; and
adjusting the state of the dynamic user status indication according to the change.
17. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
alarming on a selected condition of the state of the dynamic user status indication.
18. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
comparing a user-specified configuration policy with the system administration policy configuration; and
revising the user-specified configuration policy to conform to the system administration policy configuration.