Enterprise system having a smart distance among artifacts, and apparatus and method for providing the smart distance among the artifacts

US7689651B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Yiming Ye · Duluth, US
• Jen-Yao Chung · Yorktown Heights, US
• David L. Cohn · Hawthorne, US
• Fenno F. Heath, III · Woodbridge, US
• Jun-Jang Jeng · Armonk, US
• Santhosh Kumaran · Croton-on-Hudson, US
• Hui Lei · Scarsdale, US
• Prabir Nandi · Johns Creek, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 24, 2008
• Grant date: Mar 30, 2010
• Expiry date: Nov 24, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/80
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An enterprise system includes a plurality of artifacts (e.g., persons, objects, databases, autonomous elements, intelligent agents, information systems, etc), and a smart distance (e.g., a distance which may optimize the performance of the enterprise system) between the plurality of artifacts.