International Business Machines Corporation

Seema V Jethani

David L Schmidt

Rosalind T A Radcliffe

Janusz S Stanson

A method for prioritized scanning of resources within an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure includes prioritizing resources by likelihood of each resource being relevant to a target problem and scanning resources that have a higher likelihood of being relevant to the target problem before scanning resources that have a lower likelihood of being relevant to the target problem. A system for prioritized scanning of an IT infrastructure includes a resource list, the resource list identifying at least a portion of resources within the IT infrastructure; a plurality of tags, each of the plurality of tags being associated with a the resource, the plurality of tags being configured to monitor the resources identified in the resource list and generate an output, the output being related to a likelihood that the resources contain information related to a problem within the IT infrastructure; and a scanning program configured to scan resources with a higher likelihood of containing information related to the problem before scanning resources with a lower likelihood of containing information relating to the problem.

Prioritized resource scanning

The present invention discloses a solution for improving shared space availability by dynamically responding user utilization behavior of shared space. In the system, automated sensors within a shared space can be used to detect when spaces are in use. Sensors such as motion detectors, infrared sensors, cameras, and the like can correlate space usage to a reservation system. When a space is reserved by a user, the system can verify space occupancy according to the reservation. If the space is unoccupied and the reservation time has not expired, the space can be automatically freed. If the excess time before reservation expiration is more than a threshold value (e.g., fifteen minutes) the system can penalize the user. Penalties can be applied for users that do not utilize reservations.

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Seema V Jethani