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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2011
Applicants:

Eric Scott Purpus, Bellevue, WA (US);

Stephen David Luke Atwell, Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Eric Scott Purpus, Bellevue, WA (US);

Stephen David Luke Atwell, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

Apptio, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/06 (2013.01); G06F 17/30607 (2013.01); Y10S 707/955 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments are directed towards employing a plurality of object relationships to dynamically generate a hierarchical structure of dependent object relationships ('HSDOR'). Each object relationship may include a plurality of information, including, but not limited to, a consumer object, a provider object, a one or more direct values, a quantity of units consumed by the consumer object, or the like. Dependencies between the plurality of object relationships may be utilized to dynamically generate an HSDOR. In some embodiments, the HSDOR may be modified by resolving detected circularity relationships within the HSDOR and/or dynamically modifying object relationship dependencies affected by a new and/or modified object relationship. In some embodiments, the HSDOR may be utilized to iteratively determine a total value of an object as a function of total loaded values of object relationships from which the object depends.


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