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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2006
Anthony Baron, Woodinville, WA (US);
Anders Vinberg, Kirkland, WA (US);
Andrew Timothy Hopper, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Sammamish, WA (US);
Dileep R. P. Kumar, Redmond, WA (US);
Giedrius Zizys, Redmond, WA (US);
Nigel G. Cain, Redmond, WA (US);
Vij Rajarajan, Issaquah, WA (US);
Anthony Baron, Woodinville, WA (US);
Anders Vinberg, Kirkland, WA (US);
Andrew Timothy Hopper, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Sammamish, WA (US);
Dileep R. P. Kumar, Redmond, WA (US);
Giedrius Zizys, Redmond, WA (US);
Nigel G. Cain, Redmond, WA (US);
Vij Rajarajan, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A configuration management database for storing configuration information about an IT system. The configuration management database may have representations of configuration items that correspond to configuration items in the IT system, indicia of relations between the configuration items, and attributes of the configuration items. The configuration management database may also have configuration state information of the configuration items, where the configuration state information has information indicating whether a configuration item, relation, or attribute is in a state of pending approval or in a state of planned deployment. The configuration management database may also have temporal information indicating a temporal state of a configuration item, relation, or attribute.