IP Library Granted Patent US 8,566,323
Granted Patent B2
US 8,566,323 · App. 12/648,542 · Granted Oct 22, 2013

Grouping and differentiating files based on underlying grouped and differentiated files

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Patent No.
US 8,566,323
App. No.
12/648,542
Granted
Oct 22, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods and apparatus teach a digital spectrum of a file. The digital spectrum is used to map a file's position. This position relative to another file's position reveals closest neighbors. When multiple such neighbors are arranged, first “patterns” of data are created that further define digital spectrums of new files. It is within this sorted new data that emergent relationships or second “patterns” are examined, according to the techniques for its underlying files, or “patterns of patterns.” Representatively, original files are stored on computing devices. If encoded, they have pluralities of symbols representing an underlying data stream of original bits of data. The original files are examined for relationships between each of the files. The original relationships are converted to new files. The new files are representatively encoded and examined for other relationships. The new files are then grouped or differentiated from one another based these new relationships yielding insight into how the original files can be grouped or differentiated.

Claims (38)

1. In a computing system environment, a method of differentiating files stored on one or more computing devices, comprising:

receiving a plurality of compressed original files, said compressed original files being encoded as a plurality of first symbols derived from original data of said original files;

determining a frequency count for each first symbol of the plurality of symbols for each of the plurality of compressed original files;

determining an original distance relationship between each of said plurality of compressed original files using said frequency counts, said original distance relationship being a distance in an informational mapping space defined by the total number of said first symbols in said plurality of compressed original files;

converting said original distance relationships into a plurality of new files;

encoding each of said new files as a plurality of second symbols derived from said plurality of new files thereby generating a plurality of compressed new files;

determining a frequency count for each said second symbol for each of the plurality of compressed new files;

determining a second distance relationship between each of said compressed new files using said frequency counts for each said second symbol; and

differentiating said original files based on the determined second distance relationships.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said differentiating includes grouping together said each compressed new file based on the second distance relationship.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said plurality of first symbols and said plurality of second symbols respectively represent an underlying data stream of all original bits of data of said original files and said new files.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the determining said original distance relationship further includes determining distances between said compressed original files as oriented in said informational mapping space.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the converting said original relationship into said compressed new files further includes encoding the determined distances as said plurality of second symbols.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the determining the second distance relationship according to the encoded determined distances determines new relationships amongst said original files.

7. In a computing system environment, a method of differentiating original files stored on one or more computing devices, each original file compressed as a plurality of first symbols derived from an underlying data stream of original bits of digital data of said original files, comprising:

determining a frequency count for each said first symbol of said each compressed original file;

determining an original distance relationship between each of said plurality of compressed original files from said frequency counts, said original distance relationship being a distance in an informational mapping space defined by the total number of said first symbols in said plurality of compressed original files;

converting said original distance relationships into a plurality of new files;

compressing said new files as a plurality of second symbols;

determining a frequency count for each said second symbol for each of the plurality of compressed new files;

determining a second distance relationship between each of said compressed new files using said second symbol frequency counts; and

differentiating said original files by grouping together ones of the new files according to said second distance relationship.

8. The method of claim 7 , further including determining said original distance relationship and sorting closest neighbors between said each original file in said informational mapping space.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the grouping together further includes determining file similarity between said ones of the new files.

10. The method of claim 7 , further including determining a mapping space of the compressed new files based on a number of symbols in a plurality of second symbols in the compressed new files, the plurality of second symbols in the new files representing an underlying data stream of bits obtained from said each original file.

11. The method of claim 10 , further including determining the second relationship based on a distance between each of the new files as oriented in the informational mapping space.

12. The method of claim 7 , further including grouping together ones of the original files according to said second distance relationship.

13. In a computing system environment, a method of differentiating files stored on one or more computing devices, comprising:

encoding a plurality of original files as a plurality of first symbols each representing an optimal compression of all bits of original data of said original files to provide a plurality of compressed original files;

determining a frequency count for each first symbol of the plurality of symbols for each of the plurality of compressed original files;

determining an original distance relationship between each of the original files using said frequency counts, said original distance relationship being a distance in an informational mapping space defined by the total number of said first symbols in each said compressed original file;

converting said original distance relationship into pluralities of new files of binary data

encoding each said new file as a plurality of second symbols to provide a plurality of compressed new files;

determining a frequency count for each said second symbol;

determining a second distance relationship between each said compressed new file using said second symbol frequency counts; and

differentiating said original files based on the second distance relationship.

14. The method of claim 13 , further including grouping said each compressed new file based on the second distance relationship.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the grouping said each compressed new file further includes determining a distance between said each compressed new file as oriented in a mapping space based on a total number of second symbols in the plurality of second symbols.

Assignments (16)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST REEL/FRAME 035656/0251 Recorded Feb 2, 2023
From: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
To: BORLAND SOFTWARE CORPORATION; ATTACHMATE CORPORATION; NETIQ CORPORATION; MICRO FOCUS (US), INC.; MICRO FOCUS SOFTWARE INC. (F/K/A NOVELL, INC.)
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From: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
To: MICRO FOCUS LLC (F/K/A ENTIT SOFTWARE LLC); BORLAND SOFTWARE CORPORATION; MICRO FOCUS (US), INC.; SERENA SOFTWARE, INC; ATTACHMATE CORPORATION; MICRO FOCUS SOFTWARE INC. (F/K/A NOVELL, INC.); NETIQ CORPORATION
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From: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., AS PRIOR AGENT
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SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Oct 11, 2017
From: ENTIT SOFTWARE LLC; ATTACHMATE CORPORATION; BORLAND SOFTWARE CORPORATION; NETIQ CORPORATION; MICRO FOCUS (US), INC.; MICRO FOCUS SOFTWARE, INC.; ARCSIGHT, LLC; SERENA SOFTWARE, INC.
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
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NOTICE OF SUCCESSION OF AGENCY Recorded May 2, 2017
From: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., AS PRIOR AGENT
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CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 13, 2016
From: NOVELL, INC.
To: MICRO FOCUS SOFTWARE INC.
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SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 13, 2015
From: MICRO FOCUS (US), INC.; BORLAND SOFTWARE CORPORATION; ATTACHMATE CORPORATION; NETIQ CORPORATION; NOVELL, INC.
To: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
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RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME 028252/0216 Recorded Nov 24, 2014
From: CREDIT SUISSE AG
To: NOVELL, INC.
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GRANT OF PATENT SECURITY INTEREST FIRST LIEN Recorded May 23, 2012
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GRANT OF PATENT SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 12, 2011
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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 29, 2009
From: TEERLINK, CRAIG N.; ISAACSON, SCOTT A.; NAZEER, NADEEM A.
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