US 11,886,296 B2
Inhibiting recommendation of driver installations for drivers that are likely to cause a system failure
Wei-Ta Chen, Pflugerville, TX (US); Landon Martin Chambers, Round Rock, TX (US); and John Li, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Feb. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/186,648.
Prior Publication US 2022/0276931 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 11/1433 (2013.01) [G06F 8/61 (2013.01); G06F 11/366 (2013.01); G06F 2201/865 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to memory, the at least one processing device being configured:
to obtain information about driver installations of a given driver on a plurality of computing devices from the plurality of computing devices;
to obtain information about system failures from the plurality of computing devices;
to determine a correlation between the driver installations of the given driver on the plurality of computing devices and the system failures;
to determine that the given driver is likely to cause at least one of the system failures based at least in part on the determined correlation between the driver installations of the given driver on the plurality of computing devices and the system failures; and
to provide an indication that the given driver is likely to cause at least one of the system failures to a given computing device, the indication being configured to cause the given computing device to inhibit a presentation of a recommendation to install the given driver to a user of the given computing device;
wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to determine a failure rate cutoff value; and
determining that the given driver is likely to cause at least one of the system failures based at least in part on the determined correlation between the driver installations of the given driver on the plurality of computing devices and the system failures comprises determining that a rate of the system failures is greater than the failure rate cutoff value.