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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2004
Stephen A. Byrd, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven Czerwinski, Berkeley, CA (US);
J. Kristofer Fox, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Bruce Light Hillsberg, San Carlos, CA (US);
Bernhard Julius Klingenberg, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Rajesh Francisco Krishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Balaji Thirumalai, Newark, CA (US);
Stephen A. Byrd, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven Czerwinski, Berkeley, CA (US);
J. Kristofer Fox, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Bruce Light Hillsberg, San Carlos, CA (US);
Bernhard Julius Klingenberg, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Rajesh Francisco Krishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Balaji Thirumalai, Newark, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, system, and method are provided for analyzing the association of a resource to a business process. The invention includes an origination module, an evaluation module, and an identification module. The origination module receives an identifier and derives a seed resource associated with the identifier. The evaluation module applies heuristic routines to trace data and derives a set of candidate resources, and each heuristic routine assigns each candidate resource a probability value. The evaluation module further combines the probabilities for each candidate resource into a combined probability. The identification module identifies a resource associated to a business process by examining the combined probability of a candidate resource with a threshold value. The heuristic routines, thresholds, techniques for combining probabilities and the like are modifiable to accommodate user needs and system changes over time.