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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 19, 2015
Applicant:

Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Avinash Natarajan, Chennai, IN;

Shathish Muthu Venkatesan, Pulavar Nagar Vellore, IN;

Sanal Kumar Sivaraman, Chennai, IN;

Vinoth Kumar Arumugam, Chengalpet, IN;

Rajasekhar Pulluru, Chennai, IN;

Assignee:

DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/06 (2012.01); G06Q 10/00 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/06311 (2013.01); G06Q 10/20 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 41/0213 (2013.01); H04L 41/0686 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for managing an IT environment via a social network management operation. In various embodiments, the social network management operation enables an IT administrator to manage an IT environment using a social network analog. With the social network analog, IT administrators identify devices within the IT environment as friends. Additionally, in certain embodiments, events that occur in the devices which have been identified as friends by the IT administrators can be associated with an interest list. Additionally, in certain embodiments, the IT environment includes a plurality of spans of control, each of which is administered by different IT administrators.


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