Using intensional category assignment for a configuration management database

US8112451B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• EMC Corporation · US

Inventors

• Stephen G. Graham · Chapel Hill, US
• Thomas R. Maguire · Brewster, US
• David Stephen Reiner · Lexington, US
• Jeffrey M. Nick · West Park, US
• John Daniel Hushon · Medfield, US
• Cornelia R. Davis · Midland School, US
• Jurgen Leschner · Lexington, US
• Mark Venguerov · Westmount, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 30, 2008
• Grant date: Feb 7, 2012
• Expiry date: Jan 5, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/20
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A configuration management database system includes a plurality of configuration items. Each of the configuration items includes at least one property relating to a component of an IT system. The system also includes a plurality of intensional category definitions that provide dynamic categorization of the plurality of information items. Each of the intensional category definitions includes a predicate that is operable to identify an input one of the configuration items as a member of the category based on the at least one property in the input one of the configuration items. The configuration management database system also includes at least one pre-computed category membership data structure to support efficient processing of at least one query.