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BMC Software, Inc.

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457Patents
359Active
457Granted
56Portfolio score

Filing activity: Feb 7, 1986 → Apr 29, 2024 · 72 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5655081A System for monitoring and managing computer resources and applications across a distributed computing environment using an intelligent autonomous agent architecture Physics 813 Expired
US7617073B2 System and method for assessing and indicating the health of components Physics 616 Active
US7966398B2 Synthetic transaction monitor with replay capability Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 496 Active
US5978594A System for managing computer resources across a distributed computing environment by first reading discovery information about how to determine system resources presence Physics 487 Expired
US7062683B2 Two-phase root cause analysis Electricity 486 Expired
US8674992B2 Spotlight graphs Physics 477 Active
US7020706B2 Method and system for automatically updating multiple servers Physics 454 Expired
US9792387B2 Service desk data transfer interface Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 450 Active
US8646093B2 Method and system for configuration management database software license compliance Physics 444 Active
US6895586B1 Enterprise management system and method which includes a common enterprise-wide namespace and prototype-based hierarchical inheritance Physics 436 Expired
US8832652B2 Method for customizing software applications Physics 407 Active
US8554750B2 Normalization engine to manage configuration management database integrity Physics 387 Active
US9363252B2 Method for customizing software applications Physics 384 Active
US9645833B2 Additive independent object modification Physics 384 Active
US9098322B2 Managing a server template Physics 380 Active
US8402127B2 System and method for offering virtual private clouds within a public cloud environment Physics 380 Active
US7769718B2 Unobtrusive point-in-time consistent copies Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 379 Active
US7930396B2 System and method of enterprise systems and business impact management Electricity 379 Active
US7716353B2 Web services availability cache Physics 373 Active
US9805322B2 Application blueprint and deployment model for dynamic business service management (BSM) Physics 369 Active
US8457928B2 Automatic determination of dynamic threshold for accurate detection of abnormalities Physics 367 Active
US9766935B2 Automating application provisioning for heterogeneous datacenter environments Physics 367 Active
US9317327B2 Computing infrastructure planning Physics 366 Active
US7028301B2 System and method for automatic workload characterization Physics 365 Expired
US9122552B2 Hybrid cloud infrastructures Electricity 363 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.