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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2008
Vijay Kumar Aggarwal, Austin, TX (US);
Craig Lawton, Raleigh, NC (US);
Christopher Andrew Peters, Round Rock, TX (US);
Puthukode G. Ramachandran, Austin, TX (US);
Lorin Evan Ullmann, Austin, TX (US);
John Whitfield, Cary, NC (US);
Vijay Kumar Aggarwal, Austin, TX (US);
Craig Lawton, Raleigh, NC (US);
Christopher Andrew Peters, Round Rock, TX (US);
Puthukode G. Ramachandran, Austin, TX (US);
Lorin Evan Ullmann, Austin, TX (US);
John Whitfield, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for establishing and maintaining inventories of computing environment assets comprising one or more custom collector interfaces that detect movement of assets from one environment to another, and an inventory scanner which modifies inventories for each environment based on monitored asset movements. The present invention is of especial benefit to autonomic and on-demand computing architectures.