Patents by Inventor Gerd Breiter
Gerd Breiter has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10764109Abstract: Instantiating a resource of an IT-service includes analyzing a service model of an IT-service, the service model including a node representing a resource for providing the IT-service. A resource type of the resource being indicated by the node is determined, and a resource manager being operable to instantiate the resource is identified. A resource-manager-specific API of the resource manager is identified, and at least one abstract method for instantiating the resource is overridden with a resource-manager specific method of the resource-manager-specific API. The resource-manager specific method for instantiating the resource represented by the node is executed.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: John E. Arwe, Gerd Breiter, Marek Chodorowski, Felix Dross, Narine Kokhlikyan, Hoang Anh Le, David B. Lindquist, Simon Moser, Isabell Schwertle, Thomas Spatzier
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Patent number: 10620927Abstract: Deploying a software service. A defined software service offering is selected from a plurality of defined software service offerings. An instantiation order for deploying the selected defined software service offering on a corresponding computer system is generated. Each defined software service offering comprises a software service definition and at least one defined software policy. One selected from the group consisting of the software service definition, the software policy, and a combination thereof, provides a hardware configuration for the software service, a software configuration for the software service, and a managing policy for the software service. The instantiation order of the software service for execution on the computer system is created based on the hardware configuration, the software configuration and the managing policy.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2009Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Christine Axnix, Gerhard Banzhaf, Michael Behrendt, Andreas Bieswanger, Gerd Breiter, Andrea Schmidt, Helmut H Weber, Friedemann Baitinger, Stefan Wirag
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Patent number: 10621531Abstract: Executing a business process can include providing a context data object including a payload data structure for storing a payload data and automatically splitting an annotated context data object into one or more utility data objects. Responsive to creating a second utility data object, a pre-processing task can be injected into the business process, the pre-processing task using a copy of a first mapping to read data from the predefined data structure instance and to store the read data as payload data in the payload data structure of the first utility data object. Responsive to creating a third utility object, a post-processing task can be injected into the business process. The post-processing task can use a copy of the second mapping to write the payload data of the first utility data object to elements of a predefined data structure instance.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Gerd Breiter, Matthias Kloppmann, Thomas Spatzier
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Patent number: 10528392Abstract: Descriptions of a plurality of information technology resources are maintained in a computer-readable storage medium. A plurality of evaluation strategies a maintained, wherein the evaluation strategies associate a plurality of rules with forms of changes to the plurality of information technology resources. Responsive to detecting a command to change a first property of the set of properties of a first information technology resource of the plurality of information technology resources, the method determines that a first of the evaluation strategies associates at least one of the plurality of rules with a form of the change to the first property of the first information technology resource. Also, responsive to detecting the command, at least one of the plurality of rules is evaluated and the operation of the at least one rule is performed.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gerd Breiter, Dominik Jall, Markus Mueller, Alexander Neef, Martin Reitz
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Publication number: 20190317835Abstract: A system, method and computer program product are provided for improved management of events. A plurality of events is received from an event source. Each event comprises event data relating to a monitored system associated with the event source. A set of data fields in the event data of the plurality of events is identified. One or more relationships between at least one data field in the set of data fields and at least one other data field in the set of data fields are determined. A mapping of the event data of the plurality of events to a predefined common format is determined, based on the one or more relationships.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2018Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Paul B. French, Gerd Breiter, Kristian J. Stewart, John Lee
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Patent number: 10417051Abstract: An order processing system can include an order processing container, a factory registry, a relationship registry, and synchronization function component. The order processing system can handle orders, which are build plans including a set of tasks. The tasks can specify programmatic actions which may include creation, deletion, and modification of resources and resource topologies. The order processing container can be central engine that programmatically drives order processing actions. The factory registry can support a creation and deletion of resource instances in a resource topology defined by at least one order. The relationship registry can maintain relationships among resources. The synchronization function component can permit transparent usage of shared resources in accordance with shared usage resource topology parameters specified within processed orders.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael M. Behrendt, Gerd Breiter, Joachim Hagmeier, Einar Lueck, Ruediger Maass, Steffen Rost, Thomas Spatzier
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Publication number: 20190081849Abstract: Instantiating a resource of an IT-service includes analyzing a service model of an IT-service, the service model including a node representing a resource for providing the IT-service. A resource type of the resource being indicated by the node is determined, and a resource manager being operable to instantiate the resource is identified. A resource-manager-specific API of the resource manager is identified, and at least one abstract method for instantiating the resource is overridden with a resource-manager specific method of the resource-manager-specific API. The resource-manager specific method for instantiating the resource represented by the node is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: John E. Arwe, Gerd Breiter, Marek Chodorowski, Felix Dross, Narine Kokhlikyan, Hoang Anh Le, David B. Lindquist, Simon Moser, Isabell Schwertle, Thomas Spatzier
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Patent number: 10135669Abstract: Instantiating a resource of an IT-service includes analyzing a service model of the IT-service where the service model includes a node representing a resource for providing the IT-service. The node has a generic API providing an abstract method for instantiating the resource. A determination is made whether the node is a multi-instance node representing a resource being instantiable multiple times. If so, a determination is made whether a first instance of the resource represented by the multi-instance node already exists in a runtime environment providing the IT-service. If so, a selection criteria is computed to identify and select a resource manager configured to instantiate a second instance of the resource based on collocation or anti-collocation parameters in the runtime environment. The abstract method for instantiating the second instance of the resource is overridden with a resource-manager specific method of a resource-manager-specific API specified by the selected resource manager.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: John E. Arwe, Gerd Breiter, Marek Chodorowski, Felix Dross, Narine Kokhlikyan, Hoang Anh Le, David B. Lindquist, Simon Moser, Isabell Schwertle, Thomas Spatzier
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Publication number: 20180121852Abstract: Executing a business process can include providing a context data object including a payload data structure for storing a payload data and automatically splitting an annotated context data object into one or more utility data objects. Responsive to creating a second utility data object, a pre-processing task can be injected into the business process, the pre-processing task using a copy of a first mapping to read data from the predefined data structure instance and to store the read data as payload data in the payload data structure of the first utility data object. Responsive to creating a third utility object, a post-processing task can be injected into the business process. The post-processing task can use a copy of the second mapping to write the payload data of the first utility data object to elements of a predefined data structure instance.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Gerd Breiter, Matthias Kloppmann, Thomas Spatzier
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Patent number: 9940597Abstract: Executing a business process can include providing a context data object including a payload data structure for storing a payload data and automatically splitting an annotated context data object into one or more utility data objects. Responsive to creating a second utility data object, a pre-processing task can be injected into the business process, the pre-processing task using a copy of a first mapping to read data from the predefined data structure instance and to store the read data as payload data in the payload data structure of the first utility data object. Responsive to creating a third utility object, a post-processing task can be injected into the business process. The post-processing task can use a copy of the second mapping to write the payload data of the first utility data object to elements of a predefined data structure instance.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2012Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Gerd Breiter, Matthias Kloppmann, Thomas Spatzier
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Publication number: 20180026828Abstract: Instantiating a resource of an IT-service includes analyzing a service model of the IT-service where the service model includes a node representing a resource for providing the IT-service. The node has a generic API providing an abstract method for instantiating the resource. A determination is made whether the node is a multi-instance node representing a resource being instantiable multiple times. If so, a determination is made whether a first instance of the resource represented by the multi-instance node already exists in a runtime environment providing the IT-service. If so, a selection criteria is computed to identify and select a resource manager configured to instantiate a second instance of the resource based on collocation or anti-collocation parameters in the runtime environment. The abstract method for instantiating the second instance of the resource is overridden with a resource-manager specific method of a resource-manager-specific API specified by the selected resource manager.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: John E. Arwe, Gerd Breiter, Marek Chodorowski, Felix Dross, Narine Kokhlikyan, Hoang Anh Le, David B. Lindquist, Simon Moser, Isabell Schwertle, Thomas Spatzier
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Patent number: 9819606Abstract: Allocating an instance of a resource to an IT-service includes analyzing a service model specifying the structure of an IT-service and including nodes and resource management rules specifying the management of the node's resource. For each node, a resource type indicated by the node is determined. Resource management rules assigned to the node are also determined. The resource management rules assigned to the node are evaluated on a resource instance catalog for computing selection criteria. The selection criteria is applied on a service provider catalog for selecting a resource manager for providing an instance of the resource. An instance of the resource is created by the selected resource manager and allocated to the IT-service.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2016Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Gerd Breiter, Simon Moser, Isabell Schwertle, Thomas Spatzier
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Patent number: 9787528Abstract: Instantiating a resource of an IT-service includes analyzing a service model of the IT-service where the service model includes a node representing a resource for providing the IT-service. A resource type of the resource being indicated by the node is determined, and a service provider catalog is evaluated to determine a resource manager operable to instantiate the resource and an address of the resource manager. A request is sent to the address of the resource manager for a description of a resource-manager-specific API of the resource manager. Upon receipt of the requested description, at least one abstract method for instantiating the resource is overridden with a resource-manager specific method of the resource-manager-specific API, and the resource-manager specific method for instantiating the resource represented by the node is executed.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: John E. Arwe, Gerd Breiter, Marek Chodorowski, Felix Dross, Narine Kokhlikyan, Hoang Anh Le, David B. Lindquist, Simon Moser, Isabell Schwertle, Thomas Spatzier
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Publication number: 20170004016Abstract: Descriptions of a plurality of information technology resources are maintained in a computer-readable storage medium. A plurality of evaluation strategies a maintained, wherein the evaluation strategies associate a plurality of rules with forms of changes to the plurality of information technology resources. Responsive to detecting a command to change a first property of the set of properties of a first information technology resource of the plurality of information technology resources, the method determines that a first of the evaluation strategies associates at least one of the plurality of rules with a form of the change to the first property of the first information technology resource. Also, responsive to detecting the command, at least one of the plurality of rules is evaluated and the operation of the at least one rule is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Gerd Breiter, Dominik Jall, Markus Mueller, Alexander Neef, Martin Reitz
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Publication number: 20160359763Abstract: Allocating an instance of a resource to an IT-service includes analyzing a service model specifying the structure of an IT-service and including nodes and resource management rules specifying the management of the node's resource. For each node, a resource type indicated by the node is determined. Resource management rules assigned to the node are also determined. The resource management rules assigned to the node are evaluated on a resource instance catalog for computing selection criteria. The selection criteria is applied on a service provider catalog for selecting a resource manager for providing an instance of the resource. An instance of the resource is created by the selected resource manager and allocated to the IT-service.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Gerd Breiter, Simon Moser, Isabell Schwertle, Thomas Spatzier
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Patent number: 9515866Abstract: Instantiating a resource of an IT-service includes: analyzing a service model including nodes representing resources and being indicative of a resource type, each node comprising a generic API providing at least one abstract method for instantiating the resource represented by the respective node.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: John E. Arwe, Gerd Breiter, Marek Chodorowski, Felix Dross, Narine Kokhlikyan, Hoang Anh Le, David B. Lindquist, Simon Moser, Isabell Schwertle, Thomas Spatzier
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Patent number: 9507684Abstract: Techniques for enabling monitoring across one or more domains are provided. The techniques include identifying information technology resources across one or more domains, collecting information technology dependency information relating to the information technology resources identified across one or more domains, collecting monitoring data from the information technology resources identified across one or more domains, and using the dependency information to aggregate the monitoring data into one or more pre-determined metrics.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gerd Breiter, Sambit Sahu, Anca Sailer, Hidayatullah Shaikh, Mahesh Viswanathan
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Patent number: 9507683Abstract: A system and computer program product for enabling monitoring across one or more domains include identifying information technology resources across one or more domains, collecting information technology dependency information relating to the information technology resources identified across one or more domains, collecting monitoring data from the information technology resources identified across one or more domains, and using the dependency information to aggregate the monitoring data into one or more pre-determined metrics.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gerd Breiter, Sambit Sahu, Anca Sailer, Hidayatullah Shaikh, Mahesh Viswanathan
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Publication number: 20160344840Abstract: Instantiating a resource of an IT-service includes analyzing a service model of the IT-service where the service model includes a node representing a resource for providing the IT-service. A resource type of the resource being indicated by the node is determined, and a service provider catalog is evaluated to determine a resource manager operable to instantiate the resource and an address of the resource manager. A request is sent to the address of the resource manager for a description of a resource-manager-specific API of the resource manager. Upon receipt of the requested description, at least one abstract method for instantiating the resource is overridden with a resource-manager specific method of the resource-manager-specific API, and the resource-manager specific method for instantiating the resource represented by the node is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: John E. Arwe, Gerd Breiter, Marek Chodorowski, Felix Dross, Narine Kokhlikyan, Hoang Anh Le, David B. Lindquist, Simon Moser, Isabell Schwertle, Thomas Spatzier
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Patent number: 9449273Abstract: A method includes maintaining descriptions of a plurality of information technology resources in a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes maintaining a plurality of evaluation strategies, wherein the evaluation strategies associate a plurality of rules with forms of changes to the plurality of information technology resources. Responsive to detecting a command to change a first property of the set of properties of a first information technology resource of the plurality of information technology resources, the method determines that a first of the evaluation strategies associates at least one of the plurality of rules with a form of the change to the first property of the first information technology resource. Also, responsive to detecting the command, the method evaluates the at least one of the plurality of rules and performs the operation of the at least one rule.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gerd Breiter, Dominik Jall, Markus Mueller, Alexander Neef, Martin Reitz