Patents by Inventor Nigel G. Cain

Nigel G. Cain 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).

  • Configuration management database state model
    Patent number: 7756828
    Abstract: A configuration management database for storing configuration information about an IT system. The configuration management database may have representations of configuration items that correspond to configuration items in the IT system, indicia of relations between the configuration items, and attributes of the configuration items. The configuration management database may also have configuration state information of the configuration items, where the configuration state information has information indicating whether a configuration item, relation, or attribute is in a state of pending approval or in a state of planned deployment. The configuration management database may also have temporal information indicating a temporal state of a configuration item, relation, or attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Baron, Anders Vinberg, Andrew Timothy Hopper, Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Dileep R. P. Kumar, Giedrius Zizys, Nigel G. Cain, Vij Rajarajan