Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Julio Guijarro

Patrick Goldsack

Paul Michael Murray

Sven Graupner

Rycharde Jeffery Hawkes

Edward M Reynolds

Michael Kavanagh Smith

Amitay Korn

Rory Fergus Roche

Lee Carrotte

A system for automated contract management includes a computing device () and a memory storing program instructions that when executed by computing device (). The program instructions cause the computing device () to generate an ontology () of terms and cross-contractual relationships in contracts () and machine interpretable terms () and cross-contractual relationships () derived from the contracts () with reference to the ontology (). A method for automated contract management is also provided.

Automated contract management

A visual representation of a set of instantiated virtualized resources may be displayed and include a linear row of graphical representations of individual ones of a set of instantiated virtualized resources. In addition, a performance-related metric for individual ones of the set of instantiated virtualized resources may be monitored, and the display may be caused to reflect values for the metric for the individual instantiated virtualized resources in connection with the corresponding graphical representations of the individual instantiated virtualized resources.

Reflecting values for a metric in a display

A system is provided for disseminating resource allocation information from system resources to state-information observers comprising resource users and typically also at least one system resource manager. Each resource maintains state information about its identity and its allocation to one or more resource users. Each resource provides this information to a state-dissemination arrangement which disseminates it to each state-information observer. Each resource user uses the state information it receives from the state-dissemination arrangement to ascertain the resources allocated to it. Similarly, a system resource manager, when present, uses the state information it receives from the state-dissemination arrangement to ascertain the allocation of those resources that are of interest to the manager. A resource, resource user and resource manager for use in such a system are also provided.

Provision of resource allocation information

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Bristol, United Kingdom

Julio Guijarro