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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
May. 15, 2009
Janet S. Andersen, Apex, NC (US);
Scott B. Greer, Cary, NC (US);
Rosalind Radcliffe, Durham, NC (US);
Janet S. Andersen, Apex, NC (US);
Scott B. Greer, Cary, NC (US);
Rosalind Radcliffe, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method of characterizing the status of a complex system provide for determining a combined status level of a pair of related objects in an architecture, wherein one of the pair of related objects is a destination object and another of the pair of related objects is a source object. The combined status level determination can be cascaded through the architecture toward a front-end object corresponding to the pair of related objects to obtain a set of combined status levels. A status output may also be generated based on the set of combined status levels.