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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2002
James Patrick Goodwin, Beverly, MA (US);
Carl Joseph Kraenzel, Boston, MA (US);
Andrew Lewis Schirmer, Andover, MA (US);
David Leroy Newbold, West Roxbury, MA (US);
James Patrick Goodwin, Beverly, MA (US);
Carl Joseph Kraenzel, Boston, MA (US);
Andrew Lewis Schirmer, Andover, MA (US);
David LeRoy Newbold, West Roxbury, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention enables a flexible system for representing relationships among computing resources, assigning them strengths, and versioning them over time. One advantage is that all of the various ways that these entities are named in the real world can be normalized into a common model of identifiers (IDs) and types such that universal manipulations by class are possible without losing the capability to present the resulting information back with the original entity names or even with multiple equivalent names.