33 results about "Application portfolio management" patented technology

Improved techniques for managing enterprise applications on mobile devices are described herein. Each enterprise mobile application running on the mobile device has an associated policy through which it interacts with its environment. The policy selectively blocks or allows activities involving the enterprise application in accordance with rules established by the enterprise. Together, the enterprise applications running on the mobile device form a set of managed applications. Managed applications are typically allowed to exchange data with other managed applications, but are blocked from exchanging data with other applications, such as the user's own personal applications. Policies may be defined to manage data sharing, mobile resource management, application specific information, networking and data access solutions, device cloud and transfer, dual mode application software, enterprise app store access, and virtualized application and resources, among other things.

Systems and techniques for managing services and applications of a client system, such as an enterprise computer system, reduce the operational workload and optimize daily support process by deliverying embedded services in client system with direct connection of services into a back-end system so that back-end system processes can analyze client system information and provide detailed reports and analyses and with continuous (or regular) data exchange between client system and backend system to ensure efficient client system software processes. The embedded services can include support, operation, change and deploy, and plan and optimize services. The output of at least one of these services can be pushed to and displayed in a graphical user interface. A fact sheet provided with he graphical user interface contains on one page all the information that is needed to clearly show who is responsible for handling information technology problems, incidents, tasks, and service requests.

Systems and methods for the use of mobile applications in patent portfolio management are proposed. In one example embodiment, a method includes providing or enabling a mobile application for a portable electronic device, the mobile application relating to payment of patent annuity fees and allowing presentation of an interactive user interface to a user. The method includes displaying, in the user interface, a cost projection for paying one or more patent annuity fees and allowing a user to select one or more of the displayed patent annuity fees for payment.

Systems and methods for the enhanced use of patent protection monitors in patent portfolio management are proposed. In one example embodiment, a method includes providing, via a website or other communication portal, a patent monitoring tool including at least one interactive user interface. A user identifies a patent for automated monitoring at a patent office. A user can select engagement of an automated advisory monitors for the identified patent. The automated monitors may include a no-assignment-filed monitor, an assignment-changed monitor, and a patent-fee monitor. The patent-fee monitor may automatically initiate a patent revival process in the event a patent fee is not paid.

A system and method for managing licensing of virtual environment applications. A licensing module of a first installed virtual environment application detects installation of affiliated applications and gives them a group licensing key for passing it to the licensing server. The licensing server derives licensing parameters of the affiliated applications from the group key and gives the licenses to the affiliated applications, in case of successful validation. The licensing system provides protection from un-authorized copying of the applications. If an affiliated virtual environment application is copied (or moved) to another hardware node without its virtual environment, the licensing server will not give the license activation key to this virtual environment application.

Programmatic root cause analysis of application performance problems is provided in accordance with various embodiments. Transactions having multiple components can be monitored to determine if they are exceeding a threshold for their execution time. Monitoring the transactions can include instrumenting one or more applications to gather component level information. For transactions exceeding a threshold, the data collected for the individual components can be analyzed to automatically diagnose the potential cause of the performance problem. Time-series analytical techniques are employed to determine normal values for transaction and component execution times. The values can be dynamic or static. Deviations from these normal values can be detected and reported as a possible cause. Other filters in addition to or in place of execution times for transactions and components can also be used.

An application management system includes a web server including objects including a predefined and preassembled component, the objects forming: a generic organization model composed of logic organizational entities; a generic management model composed of logic operational entities; a generic control model composed of data analysis tools; a generic model of screens and kinematics for a user interface; a set of tables and files characterizing the activation and personalization options of the objects and the processes, streams and rules associated with the objects; tools for identifying possible activations of objects linked to an initial object activation; management tools for building logic networks including data spaces, and preassembled links that can be activated and personalized, each data space may be composed of all the objects, a connector object suitable for searching for tables and files; a data server including a single predefined physical database including data corresponding to the objects.

This disclosure comprises a method and system to automatically provide important business information to a user of the system at key decision making times during the lifetime of a patent with the goal of aligning business and strategies. The system will include an interface for the client to input information regarding business strategy on a continual basis and another interface to present the compiled information to the client at a later time, or to the working attorney. That information will be automatically sent to key decisions makers throughout the lifetime of a patent. Specifically, the business strategy information will consist of a revenue contribution ranking for client products as well as the competitors' products for each geographic region for which the invention is to be made, sold or transported.

The embodiments of the invention generally relate to a policy based framework for application management. A first system manager operating on a first node of a distributed routing system, receives data indicating a current state of the distributed routing system. The first system manager may determine, based at least in part on the current state of the distributed routing system and a set of rules for an application, an updated state of the distributed routing system. Furthermore, the first node may send the updated state of the distributed routing system to a second node of the distributed routing system. Responsive to receiving the updated state of the distributed routing system, a second system manager on the second node may modify a state of the second node. Modifying the state of the second node may comprise at least one of: starting the application on the second node, stopping the application on the second node, or modifying a state of the application on the second node.

A computer executable method for producing a feedback metric for use in Project Portfolio Management (“PPM”). The method includes collecting data about a plurality of project proposals and collecting data about a plurality of completed projects, such that some of the data about proposals and completed projects pertain to the same project. The collected data is then used to estimate the parameters of a model by using a maximum likelihood technique, executed as an algorithm in the computer, that overcomes a Missing Data Problem (“MDP”). The method uses the estimated parameters generated by the algorithm to create feedback metrics for use in PPM and that are output from the computer.

An information technology services providing company manages a portfolio of software applications for a client company. A plurality of the applications are preselected along with a recommendation for each. The recommendations have value drivers with parameters. Values for the parameters are received from the client as responses to questions or through collaboration with the client. A business value is then determined for the value drivers using the parameter values. Total cash flow, return on investment, net present value, internal rate of return, or other financial measures may be calculated. The client decides to proceed with the recommendations and the services providing company delivers services and software according to the recommendations.

An application performance management system is disclosed. Operational elements are dynamically discovered and extended when changes occur. Programmatic knowledge is captured. Particular instances of operational elements are recognized after changes have been made using a fingerprint / signature process. Metrics and metadata associated with a monitored operational element are sent in a compressed form to a backend for analysis. Metrics and metadata from multiple similar systems may be used to adjust / create expert rules to be used in the analysis of the state of an operational element. A 3-D user interface with both physical and logical representations may be used to display the results of the performance management system.

This disclosure comprises a method and system to automatically provide important business information to a user of the system at key decision-making times during the lifetime of a patent with the goal of aligning business and strategies. The system will include an interface into which the client can input information regarding purpose oriented prosecution information on a continual basis and another interface to present the compiled information to the client, or the working attorney, at a later time. This information will automatically be provided to a user based on the detection of a key event in the lifetime of the patent portfolio.

The invention discloses an application management and rapid deployment method in a cloud platform, and belongs to the field of cloud technology application. The method comprises the particular steps of (1) relation of cloud providers and building and mapping of related resources, wherein a management IP or a host name, an organization name, a login name, a password and a vdc of each cloud provider are added to a system; (2) planning, design and generation of a deployment blueprint, wherein multiple applications are built according to the need of a user; (3) implementation of application deployment, wherein a deploy is generated according to the built blueprint, a vdc needing to be deployed is selected, the deployment is executed, and resource building of the deployment in a corresponding virtual data center of the cloud providers is finished. The application management and rapid deployment method is provided according to the technology, a manager can plan and manage the application deployment conditions of cloud resources globally, a deployment scheme meeting the needs of the user can be rapidly made conveniently and flexibly, and deployment operation is carried out automatically.

[TECHNICAL PROBLEM] An evaluation score and information of a group of applications and patents mutually related with each other to constitute a patent portfolio are visualized so that an effective value evaluation is realized. [SOLUTION] A patent portfolio management system, comprising: a patent value calculation unit that calculates a value score of an individual application stored in the patent information storage unit; an annual fee payable amount calculation unit that calculates a patent annual fee payable amount for a reference year of the subject application for the evaluation based on the annual fee table stored in the annual fee information storage unit; a graphics generation device that generates a patent portfolio management screen inclusive of a preliminarily determined diagram or a preliminarily determined table; and a display device that displays the patent portfolio management screen generated by the graphics generation device.

An information technology services providing company manages a portfolio of software applications for a client company. A plurality of the applications are preselected along with a recommendation for each. The recommendations have value drivers with parameters. Values for the parameters are received from the client as responses to questions or through collaboration with the client. A business value is then determined for the value drivers using the parameter values. Total cash flow, return on investment, net present value, internal rate of return, or other financial measures may be calculated. The client decides to proceed with the recommendations and the services providing company delivers services and software according to the recommendations.

A project portfolio management system creating virtual interrelationships between projects. Aspects of the system include creating virtual relationships at the Work Breakdown Structure (“WBS”) level with appropriate offsets using interpretations of logic relationships in detailed project schedules using various calculation approaches. The system models the linkages between detailed project schedules in a virtual relationship usable in alternate scenario planning analysis at a summary or working level. The virtual relationships are accurate enough for high level planning by users (e.g., program managers and analysts) with limited familiarity of project details (e.g., which non-workdays are in which project calendars) and reduce the computation times when altering a project planning scenario. Using the virtual relationships allows scenarios to be quickly evaluated to gauge the effects of changing constraints before committing to recalculating the detailed schedules of a project.

A system and method for managing licensing of virtual environment applications. A licensing module of a first installed virtual environment application detects installation of affiliated applications and gives them a group licensing key for passing it to the licensing server. The licensing server derives licensing parameters of the affiliated applications from the group key and gives the licenses to the affiliated applications, in case of successful validation. The licensing system provides protection from un-authorized copying of the applications. If an affiliated virtual environment application is copied (or moved) to another hardware node without its virtual environment, the licensing server will not give the license activation key to this virtual environment application.

An application performance management system is disclosed. Operational elements are dynamically discovered and extended when changes occur. Programmatic knowledge is captured. Particular instances of operational elements are recognized after changes have been made using a fingerprint / signature process. Metrics and metadata associated with a monitored operational element are sent in a compressed form to a backend for analysis. Metrics and metadata from multiple similar systems may be used to adjust / create expert rules to be used in the analysis of the state of an operational element. A 3-D user interface with both physical and logical representations may be used to display the results of the performance management system.

The invention belongs to the technical field of student management and discloses an application management and control system for student management. The system is provided with a student informationregistration module, an attendance recording module, a central control module, a curriculum arrangement module, an achievement statistics module, a psychological management module, a file management module, an information storage module, a display module, a homework supervision module and a classroom management module. Through the psychological management module, the psychology of a student can betested and evaluated, the psychological problems of the student are solved, and the healthy development of the student is ensured; through the file management module, a to-be-stored file is firstly put in an archive kit, the archive kit is coded by using a barcode, the basic information of the file and the archive kit is inputted to a file management system, and the kit information is recorded; and a file in store is managed according to the code of the archive kit, the state of the archive kit is monitored in real time, the operation is simple and convenient, the stability is strong, and through Internet multi-platform operation, a file management task can be completed in any place.

The invention relates to an application rule editor management mechanism, which is characterized in that a new item is added to menu items of a model editor, a user needs to define a specified name for an established process, then the user selects a task which is associated with a working sheet service, and a menu item of editing rules turns into an available state. The user clicks the menu item, activates a rule editor and accomplishes rule definition for the work item. Mutual conversion between a rule set file and a body is realized, so that system resources can be described in a unified manner by using the body. According to the embodiment of the invention, rules are established by adopting a method for establishing ripple down rules, and the development process of application rule editor management in an observation system is carried out at the premise of not depending on a specific assembly. The editor is completely packaged, an API for secondary development is provided, thereby being capable of being integrated into another Petri-net model based modeling tool very conveniently, and enabling the system to have excellent universality.

An application performance management system is disclosed. Operational elements are dynamically discovered and extended when changes occur. Programmatic knowledge is captured. Particular instances of operational elements are recognized after changes have been made using a fingerprint / signature process. Metrics and metadata associated with a monitored operational element are sent in a compressed form to a backend for analysis. Metrics and metadata from multiple similar systems may be used to adjust / create expert rules to be used in the analysis of the state of an operational element. A 3-D user interface with both physical and logical representations may be used to display the results of the performance management system.

A system and method for managing a portfolio or projects is disclosed wherein the relationships between the goals of an organization are determined and a weight is applied to each goal. These weights are indicative of the importance of each goal in achieving another goal. Each project in the organization is assigned a contribution value that indicates the importance of that project in achieving one or more of the organizational goals and strategic impacts of that project to those goals is calculated as a function of the contribution value of the project. This strategic impact is compared to objective criteria, such as the budget allocated to that project, and a determination is made whether the resources allocated to that project should be adjusted as a function of the relationship between this strategic impact and the objective criteria.

A system for determining a root cause of a performance issue of a software application executing in a distributed computer system. The system includes constructing a hierarchical graph of metrics of a component of the distributed computer system based on search traces of the metrics of different users. A parent-child edge between a first metric and a second metric in the hierarchical graph is constructed when there is a sequential association between the search traces. A sibling edge between the first metric and the second metric in the hierarchical graph is constructed when there is no sequential association between the search traces. A metric investigation recommendation is provided to address the performance issue based on traversal of the hierarchical graph of the metrics.

Novel tools and techniques that offer more robust solutions for application service management. Some such solutions provide a service management framework for managing a software application. In some cases, the framework can include multiple tools to detect and / or remedy application problems at a variety of different levels. In another aspect, some solutions can define multiple application lifecycle phases, ranging from minor impairment to catastrophic failure. For each of such phases, the service management framework can define one or more diagnostic criteria and / or one or more corrective actions that can be taken to remedy a suboptimal condition of the application.

An approach for managing printing requests of a computer printing system is provided. In one aspect, the approach comprises a computing printing system receiving a printing request based on parameters of a printing request data. The approach further comprises the computing printing system determining printing alternatives for the printing request based on the printing request data. In addition, the computing printing system detects if the printing request can be archived in an email repository or transmitted to a mobile device of the requestor based on the printing alternatives. Moreover, the approach further comprises the computing printing system redirecting the printing request to one or more of an email archive of the email repository or the mobile device based on the detection of the printing request.

A system for determining a root cause of a performance issue of a software application executing in a distributed computer system. The system includes constructing a hierarchical graph of metrics of a component of the distributed computer system based on search traces of the metrics of different users. A parent-child edge between a first metric and a second metric in the hierarchical graph is constructed when there is a sequential association between the search traces. A sibling edge between the first metric and the second metric in the hierarchical graph is constructed when there is no sequential association between the search traces. A metric investigation recommendation is provided to address the performance issue based on traversal of the hierarchical graph of the metrics.

The invention provides a method and device for application program authority management. The method comprises the steps that a self-starting request to an application program in a broadcasting or service mode is received; a local strategy database is searched for an intercepting strategy corresponding to a packet identifier of the application program, the request is sent to a cloud server through a remote strategy interface, the fed-back intercepting strategy corresponding to the packet identifier of the application program is obtained, and the obtained intercepting strategy is stored in an application program authorization authority list; whether the self-starting request to the application program in the broadcasting or service mode is intercepted or not is judged according to the packet identifier of the application program carried in the self-starting request, and if the packet identifier of the application program is consistent with the intercepting strategy stored in the application program authorization authority list, the self-starting request to the application program in the broadcasting or service mode is intercepted. Occupancy of some useless self-starting application programs on terminal resources can be reduced as much as possible.

The present invention relates to computer systems and methods for managing complex patent portfolios and forecasting patent expenses. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to computer systems and methods for calculating future patent expenses on a real-time ongoing basis, including prosecution costs and maintenance fees, based on user-inputted, calculated and / or preprogrammed parameters specific to a user's patent portfolio.