US 11,687,490 B2
Management of contextual information for data
Huamin Chen, Westborough, MA (US)
Assigned to Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed by Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed on Aug. 28, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/554,045.
Application 16/554,045 is a continuation of application No. 14/721,592, filed on May 26, 2015, granted, now 10,423,578, issued on Sep. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0064577 A1, Mar. 4, 2021
Prior Publication US 2022/0391355 A9, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/17 (2019.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 16/1734 (2019.01) [G06F 9/54 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a computing system, the method comprising:
executing an application;
with the application, using a data call to an Application Programming Interface (API), the data call requesting access to a file stored on a storage system associated with the computing system;
with a context extraction module, determining contextual information associated with the data call;
through use of a library, causing a kernel to access the file according to the data call;
storing the contextual information on the storage system; and
performing an analysis on the contextual information to detect trends, the analysis including determining an average size of a call stack when the data was accessed.