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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2005
Pratul Dublish, Sammamish, WA (US);
Bassam Tabbara, Seattle, WA (US);
Geoffrey H. Outhred, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey B. Parham, Redmond, WA (US);
Kevin D. J. Grealish, Seattle, WA (US);
Praerit Garg, Kirkland, WA (US);
Pratul Dublish, Sammamish, WA (US);
Bassam Tabbara, Seattle, WA (US);
Geoffrey H. Outhred, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey B. Parham, Redmond, WA (US);
Kevin D. J. Grealish, Seattle, WA (US);
Praerit Garg, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Modeling operational policies of operating a business's or institution's actual or planned IT system. The IT system may include components such as applications, application hosts, one or more networks or components thereof, hardware, and interrelationships between the components. The IT system is to be operated in accordance with operational policies that govern existence or numerosity of components, how the components are interrelated, how the components and interrelationships are configured, and/or manual or automated processes for managing and maintaining the IT system. The modeling may involve generating code that conforms to a language by declaring abstractions using types that correspond to the components of the IT system, by declaring types of interrelationships that correspond to the interrelationships of the IT system, and by defining constraints upon and between the abstract types, where the constraints correspond to operational policies of operating the IT system.