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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:
May. 09, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Derek W. Botti, Holly Springs, NC (US);

Ramamohan Chennamsetty, Highland, NY (US);

Anji D. Greene, Austin, TX (US);

Charles S. Lingafelt, Durham, NC (US);

William H. Tworek, Hopkinton, NH (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/60 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0635 (2013.01); H04L 63/1433 (2013.01); G06F 8/71 (2013.01); G06F 11/3668 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for deploying a software application to a hosting environment that considers the development environment, and bases any decision on data about the development environment to make a selection of hosting environment and/or operational attributes. The system and methods determines and attaches metadata describing the development environment to an application, then uses that metadata to select a deployment model, and to select an operational model. The method assigns a security risk score to a developed application which may be hosted in a virtual hosting environment or a physical hosting environment. The system and method considers security issues in its scoring and focuses on the security risk associated with an application that would be deployed. The method steps convey the application attributes, such as complexity, robustness, likelihood of operational issued, likelihood of compromise, etc. to the deployment and operating entities.


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