IP Library Granted Patent US 12,499,165
Granted Patent B2
US 12,499,165 · App. 17/936,992 · Granted Dec 16, 2025

Profiling user activity to achieve social and governance objectives

Inventor: Prakash Darji (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
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Patent No.
US 12,499,165
App. No.
17/936,992
Filed
Sep 30, 2022
Granted
Dec 16, 2025
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2176
USPC
707/722
Abstract

Profiling user activity to achieve social and governance objectives, including: generating, based on data describing activities within a system, a plurality of activity groupings each including one or more user accounts and corresponding to a particular activity in the system; generating, for each of the plurality of activity groupings, one or more social groupings based on user profiles of the one or more user accounts in a corresponding activity grouping, wherein each of the one or more social groupings corresponds to one or more particular user profile attributes; identifying, for a particular user account, one or more of the activity groupings having a social grouping corresponding to user profile attributes of the particular user account; and modifying one or more user experience features of the system based on the identified one or more activity groupings.

Claims (38)

1 . A method comprising:

generating, based on data describing activities within a system, a plurality of activity groupings including one or more user accounts and corresponding to a particular activity in the system;

generating, for the plurality of activity groupings, one or more social groupings by accessing user profile attributes in user profiles of the one or more user accounts in a corresponding activity grouping, wherein the one or more social groupings correspond to a set of one or more particular user profile attributes and wherein the user profile attributes are descriptors of personal information;

selecting, for a particular user account, one or more activity groupings from the plurality of activity groupings using a particular social grouping corresponding to user profile attributes of the particular user account; and

modifying one or more user experience features of user interface elements of a user interface provided by the system based on the one or more activity groupings that were selected from the plurality of activity groupings based on the particular social grouping corresponding to the user profile attributes of the particular user account.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

presenting the one or more user experience features.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more user experience features includes a recommendation.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the data describing activities within the system comprises a log describing particular activities performed within the system by particular user accounts.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more user profile attributes comprises an age.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more user profile attributes comprises a gender identity or a sexual orientation.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more user profile attributes comprises one or more of a language or a nationality.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising performing, based on the one or more social groupings for each of the plurality of activity groupings, a representation analysis.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the representation analysis is based on one or more diversity objectives.

10 . An apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device operatively coupled to the memory, the processing device configured to:

generate, based on data describing activities within a system, a plurality of activity groupings including one or more user accounts and corresponding to a particular activity in the system;

generate, for the plurality of activity groupings, one or more social groupings by accessing user profile attributes in user profiles of the one or more user accounts in a corresponding activity grouping, wherein the one or more social groupings correspond to a set of one or more particular user profile attributes and wherein the user profile attributes are descriptors of personal information;

select, for a particular user account, one or more activity groupings from the plurality of activity groupings using a particular social grouping corresponding to user profile attributes of the particular user account; and

modify one or more user experience features of user interface elements of a user interface provided by the system based on the one or more activity groupings that were selected from the plurality of activity groupings based on the particular social grouping corresponding to the user profile attributes of the particular user account.

11 . The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the processing device is further configured to:

present the one or more user experience features.

12 . The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the one or more user experience features includes a recommendation.

13 . The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the data describing activities within the system comprises a log describing particular activities performed within the system by particular user accounts.

14 . The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the one or more user profile attributes comprises an age.

15 . The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the one or more user profile attributes comprises a gender identity or a sexual orientation.

16 . The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the one or more user profile attributes comprises one or more of a language or a nationality.

17 . The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein processing device is further configured to:

perform, based on the one or more social groupings for each of the plurality of activity groupings, a representation analysis.

18 . The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the representation analysis is based on one or more diversity objectives.

19 . A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a processing device to:

generate, based on data describing activities within a system, a plurality of activity groupings including one or more user accounts and corresponding to a particular activity in the system;

generate, for the plurality of activity groupings, one or more social groupings by accessing user profile attributes in user profiles of the one or more user accounts in a corresponding activity grouping, wherein the one or more social groupings correspond to a set of one or more particular user profile attributes and wherein the user profile attributes are descriptors of personal information;

select, for a particular user account, one or more activity groupings from the plurality of activity groupings using a particular social grouping corresponding to user profile attributes of the particular user account; and

modify one or more user experience features of user interface elements of a user interface provided by the system based on the one or more activity groupings that were selected from the plurality of activity groupings based on the particular social grouping corresponding to the user profile attributes of the particular user account.

20 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 19 , the processing device further configured to:

present the one or more user experience features.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 30, 2022
From: DARJI, PRAKASH
To: PURE STORAGE, INC.
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Continuity (2)
Continuation In Part 17503688 · Oct 18, 2021
Related Publication 20230118443A1 · Apr 20, 2023
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