System and method for implementing a metrics engine for tracking relationships over time
US7209906B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 15, 2002 |
| Grant date | Apr 24, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 15, 2024 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99945
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention enables a flexible system for representing relationships among computing resources, assigning them strengths, and versioning them over time. One advantage is that all of the various ways that these entities are named in the real world can be normalized into a common model of identifiers (IDs) and types such that universal manipulations by class are possible without losing the capability to present the resulting information back with the original entity names or even with multiple equivalent names.
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