Configuration management database state model

US7756828B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Anthony Baron · Woodinville, US
• Anders Vinberg · Kirkland, US
• Andrew Timothy Hopper · Bellevue, US
• Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi · Sammamish, US
• Dileep Kumar · San Jose, US
• Giedrius Zizys · Sammamish, US
• Nigel Graham Cain · Redmond, US
• Vij Rajarajan · Redmond, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 28, 2006
• Grant date: Jul 13, 2010
• Expiry date: Jul 28, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A configuration management database for storing configuration information about an IT system. The configuration management database may have representations of configuration items that correspond to configuration items in the IT system, indicia of relations between the configuration items, and attributes of the configuration items. The configuration management database may also have configuration state information of the configuration items, where the configuration state information has information indicating whether a configuration item, relation, or attribute is in a state of pending approval or in a state of planned deployment. The configuration management database may also have temporal information indicating a temporal state of a configuration item, relation, or attribute.