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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023
Filed:
May. 14, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Vitalii Tsybulnyk, Redmond, WA (US);
Arka Dasgupta, Bellevue, WA (US);
Marwan Elias Jubran, Kirkland, WA (US);
Clifford Thomas Dibble, Bothell, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for blocking path detection is provided. A job comprises tasks with at least some of the tasks dependent on other task(s). Each task is assigned to an ownership team. At a particular point in execution of the job, states of tasks of the job are identified. The states include one of three mutually exclusive states: waiting for another task/finished, in progress, and, blocked. When all the tasks with identified states of in progress or blocked are assigned to a particular ownership team, the particular ownership team is identified as on a blocking path. An action can be performed regarding the blocking path, for example, selected in accordance with policy-defined response actions such as generating an incident, escalating an existing incident, and/or sending a notification (e.g., an accumulated time on the blocking path can be calculated for each team with team(s) notified when certain threshold(s) are exceeded).