Patents by Inventor Santhosh Kumaran
Santhosh Kumaran 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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Publication number: 20080183528Abstract: An intelligent business event adapter receives information technology (IT) events and raw data from a backend enterprise application to capture, analyze, transform, enrich, aggregate, and correlate application-dependent IT-level events into a business level event which is communicated to a business performance monitoring (BPM) server. The adapter comprises four modules: an Event Adaptation module, a business rules module, a data retriever module, and a data transformation module. The Event Adaptation module captures and analyzes IT events from the backend enterprise application. The business rules module stores business rules. The data retriever module is invoked by the Event Adaptation module to obtain business data according to business rules stored in the business rules module. The data transformation module forms business events to be forwarded to the BPM server.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: July 31, 2008Inventors: Trieu C. Chieu, Shiwa S. Fu, Santhosh Kumaran, Jih-Shyr Yih
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Publication number: 20080183530Abstract: A mechanism provides a model-driven solution template-based approach for managed business services. Key assets of the business services are templatized and made configurable. The mechanism implements a metamodel describing standard service offerings that can be configured to meet specific business and operational requirements at a level of business process and system components. A cost and pricing model of service offerings helps assess the service costs and resource requirements based on a client's selection of standard and customized processes and system components. A supporting system solution is developed based upon underlying solution templates and solution artifacts as well as client-specific requirements.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2008Publication date: July 31, 2008Inventors: Sugato Bagchi, Kumar Bhaskaran, Shiwa S. Fu, Ying Huang, Hai Tao Hu, Anca-Andreea Ivan, Shubir Kapoor, Santhosh Kumaran, Lun Quoc Nguyen, Thejaswini Ramachandra
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Publication number: 20080165033Abstract: A wireless key is signal, having a key-specific identifier, is received, the key-specific identifier detected, and the signal transmission location is calculated. The signal transmission location is stored based on the detected key-specific identifier. Another instance of the same wireless key signal is received, its key-specific identifier is detected, and the stored signal transmission location is retrieved based on the detected key-specific identifier. Optionally, a wireless key signal is received at a user and repeated at a plurality of locations in a parking facility. A vehicle response is detected, and associated with one of the repeatings of the wireless key signal. A location of the vehicle response is detected based on the repeating with which it is associated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2007Publication date: July 10, 2008Inventors: Trieu C. Chieu, David L. Cohn, Shiwa S. Fu, Santhosh Kumaran, Lawrence S. Mok
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Publication number: 20080097807Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling business level SLAs (Service level Agreements), and more particularly, systems and method for monitoring and controlling business level SLAs using probe points, KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and business commitments. An XML (extensible Markup Language)-based specification referred to as BPCL (Business Process Commitment Language) is used to describe business commitments. BPCL specifications are used by a business process management (BPM) system to configure, monitor, and control business processes based on business commitments. Business Commitments and BPCL provide a path toward model-based management for dynamic e-business solutions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Hung Chang, Jun-Jang Jeng, Santhosh Kumaran, Haifei Li, Liang-Jie Zhang
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Patent number: 7313533Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling business level SLAs (Service level Agreements), and more particularly, systems and method for monitoring and controlling business level SLAs using probe points, KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and business commitments. An XML (extensible Markup Language)-based specification referred to as BPCL (Business Process Commitment Language) is used to describe business commitments. BPCL specifications are used by a business process management (BPM) system to configure, monitor, and control business processes based on business commitments. Business Commitments and BPCL provide a path toward model-based management for dynamic e-business solutions.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2003Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hung-Yang Chang, Jun-Jang Jeng, Santhosh Kumaran, Haifei Li, Liang-Jie Zhang
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Publication number: 20070185746Abstract: An intelligent business event adapter receives information technology (IT) events and raw data from a backend enterprise application to capture, analyze, transform, enrich, aggregate, and correlate application-dependent IT-level events into a business level event which is communicated to a business performance monitoring (BPM) server. The adapter comprises four modules: an Event Adaptation module, a business rules module, a data retriever module, and a data transformation module. The Event Adaptation module captures and analyzes IT events from the backend enterprise application. The business rules module stores business rules. The data retriever module is invoked by the Event Adaptation module to obtain business data according to business rules stored in the business rules module. The data transformation module forms business events to be forwarded to the BPM server.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2006Publication date: August 9, 2007Inventors: Trieu Chieu, Shiwa Fu, Santhosh Kumaran, Jih-Shyr Yih
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Publication number: 20070179793Abstract: A mechanism provides a model-driven solution template-based approach for managed business services. Key assets of the business services are templatized and made configurable. The mechanism implements a metamodel describing standard service offerings that can be configured to meet specific business and operational requirements at a level of business process and system components. A cost and pricing model of service offerings helps assess the service costs and resource requirements based on a client's selection of standard and customized processes and system components. A supporting system solution is developed based upon underlying solution templates and solution artifacts as well as client-specific requirements.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2006Publication date: August 2, 2007Inventors: Sugato Bagchi, Kumar Bhaskaran, Shiwa Fu, Ying Huang, Hai Hu, Anca-Andreea Ivan, Shubir Kapoor, Santhosh Kumaran, Luu Nguyen, Thejaswini Ramachandra
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Patent number: 7222302Abstract: A system and method that implements top-down and bottom-up model-driven transformations between platform-independent (business view) modeling approaches and platform-specific (IT architectural) models. On the business level, business view models may be expressed in, but not limited to ADF or UML2, whereas on the IT architecture side, service-oriented architectures with Web service interfaces and processes are specified in business process protocol languages including, but not limited to, BPEL4WS, or workflow definitions. An architecture and a transformation method based on typed information flows automatically transforms platform-independent business models into executable information technology (IT) architecture specifications constrained by a specific IT platform, and vice versa. The models generated span the entire life cycle of a software system and ease the software production, deployment and maintenance tasks.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2003Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Rainer F. Hauser, Shubir Kapoor, Jana Koehler, Santhosh Kumaran, Frederick Y. Wu
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Publication number: 20050267765Abstract: A model-driven and QoS-aware infrastructure facilitates the scalable composition of Web services in highly dynamic environments. An exception management framework supports two modes of exception management for business processes, providing a novel policy-driven approach to exception management implemented in the system infrastructure. Exception management is implemented in the system infrastructure, with exception handling policies supplied by individual business processes. Using the exception management framework, developers define exception policies in a declarative manner. Before a business process is executed, the service composition middleware integrates the exception policies with normal business logic to generate a complete process schema. This policy driven-approach can significantly reduce the development time of business processes through its separation of the development of the business logic and the exception handling policies.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2004Publication date: December 1, 2005Inventors: Jun-Jang Jeng, Hui Lei, Liangzhao Zeng, Hung-yang Chang, Santhosh Kumaran, Jen-Yao Chung
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Publication number: 20050108022Abstract: Automomic business processes management solutions have capabilities to adapt themselves to changes in the business environment. These autonomic business solutions are built by wiring together autonomic solution components called BPbots (Business Process robots). BPbots are granular solution components representing an aspect of a business process. In general, BPbots consist of two parts, an execution module and a managerial module. The execution module represents the standard, non-autonomic solution component, such as a standard process flow model describing the long-running flow or business adapter describing the communication of the solution with service providers (such as applications). The managerial module is responsible for the autonomic behavior of the BPbot. The managerial component has the ability to monitor the execution module, analyze the performance, plan new, more appropriate execution patterns and change the behavior of the execution module according to the new plan.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2003Publication date: May 19, 2005Inventors: Kamal Bhattacharya, Ying Huang, Jun-Jang Jeng, Shubir Kapoor, Santhosh Kumaran, Yingjie Li, Anil Nigam, Frederick Wu, Liangzhao Zeng
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Publication number: 20050108680Abstract: A software architecture can include an artifact layer and a configuration layer. The artifact layer can contain multiple application independent artifacts. A configuration layer can contain at least one application. The application can include multiple states in which the application executes instructions. The states can exist within execution spaces that are distributed across a network. The application uses artifacts of the artifact layer, which can operate in a state dependent manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2003Publication date: May 19, 2005Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tsz Cheng, Ying Huang, Santhosh Kumaran, Amaresh Rajasekharan, Mathews Thomas, Frederick Wu, Yiming Ye
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Publication number: 20050096951Abstract: Techniques are provided for product life cycle management over an information network. More particularly, techniques are provided for decision support activation and management in accordance with a product life cycle management process such as a collaborative design process. In one aspect of the invention, a technique for managing at least one collaborative process performed in accordance with a first entity and at least a second entity, comprises the following steps/operations. Information associated with the at least one collaborative process is obtained. Based on at least a portion of the obtained information, an information structure (e.g., a context pyramid) representative of the collaborative process is dynamically maintained so as to assist at least one of the first entity and the second entity in managing at least a portion of the collaborative process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2003Publication date: May 5, 2005Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yiming Ye, Haiyan Wang, Liang-Jie Zhang, John Sayah, Jen-Yao Chung, Santhosh Kumaran
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Publication number: 20050091093Abstract: A system and method for creating and managing a business process integration solution comprises modeling a business strategy including elements representing business measurements and initiatives according to defined business goals and objectives of an entity; modeling business operations of the entity in terms of business process elements including process tasks, artifact flows and artifact repositories, and business commitment elements including incorporating key performance indicators; mapping elements of the strategy model with artifact and process elements of the operations model; and, measuring business performance and comparing performance measurements against the key performance indicators. The business strategy and operation model process elements may be continuously refined over a solution development lifecycle as a result of process measurements and comparing. A business level modeling language is further implemented for formally representing the business operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2003Publication date: April 28, 2005Applicant: INERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Kumar Bhaskaran, Stephen Buckley, Nathan Caswell, Hung-Yang Chang, Joachim Frank, Rainer Hauser, Ying Huang, Shubir Kapoor, Jana Koehler, Santhosh Kumaran, Prabir Nandi, Anil Nigam, Zhong Tian, Jian Wang, Frederick Wu, Jun Zhu
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Publication number: 20050086303Abstract: An enterprise system includes a plurality of artifacts (e.g., persons, objects, databases, autonomous elements, intelligent agents, information systems, etc), and a smart distance (e.g., a distance which may optimize the performance of the enterprise system) between the plurality of artifacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2003Publication date: April 21, 2005Inventors: Yiming Ye, Haiyang Wang, Jen-Yao Chung, David Cohn, Fenno Heath, Jun-Jang Jeng, Santhosh Kumaran, Hui Lei, Pradir Nanbi
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Publication number: 20050080640Abstract: A system for generating a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution includes an assembler which assembles a plurality of solution artifacts to form a platform-independent solution template, a template implementer which implements the platform-independent solution template to form a template implementation, and a customizer which customizes the template implementation to generate a BPIM solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2003Publication date: April 14, 2005Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kumar Bhaskaran, Ying Huang, Shubir Kapoor, Santhosh Kumaran, Prabir Nandi, Zhong Tian, Jian Wang, Frederick Wu
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Publication number: 20050080609Abstract: A system for analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution includes an assembler which assembles a plurality of solution artifacts to form a platform independent solution template, a simulator which simulates an execution of a BPIM solution based on the platform independent solution template, and an analyzer for analyzing a performance of the BPIM solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2003Publication date: April 14, 2005Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kumar Bhaskaran, Ying Huang, Santhosh Kumaran, Prabir Nandi, Zhong Tian, Jian Wang, Jun Zhu
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Publication number: 20050010456Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling business level SLAs (Service level Agreements), and more particularly, systems and method for monitoring and controlling business level SLAs using probe points, KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and business commitments. An XML (extensible Markup Language)-based specification referred to as BPCL (Business Process Commitment Language) is used to describe business commitments. BPCL specifications are used by a business process management (BPM) system to configure, monitor, and control business processes based on business commitments. Business Commitments and BPCL provide a path toward model-based management for dynamic e-business solutions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2003Publication date: January 13, 2005Inventors: Hung-Yang Chang, Jun-Jang Jeng, Santhosh Kumaran, Haifei Li, Liang-Jie Zhang
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Publication number: 20040249645Abstract: A system and method that implements top-down and bottom-up model-driven transformations between platform-independent (business view) modeling approaches and platform-specific (IT architectural) models. On the business level, business view models may be expressed in, but not limited to ADF or UML2, whereas on the IT architecture side, service-oriented architectures with Web service interfaces and processes are specified in business process protocol languages including, but not limited to, BPEL4WS, or workflow definitions. An architecture and a transformation method based on typed information flows automatically transforms platform-independent business models into executable information technology (IT) architecture specifications constrained by a specific IT platform, and vice versa. The models generated span the entire life cycle of a software system and ease the software production, deployment and maintenance tasks.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2003Publication date: December 9, 2004Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Rainer F. Hauser, Shubir Kapoor, Jana Koehler, Santhosh Kumaran, Frederick Y. Wu
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Publication number: 20030187743Abstract: Process Brokering Services (PBS) are implemented though the concept of Adaptive Documents to facilitate electronic commerce (e-commerce). PBS provides a single point of process control over the various fragmented execution flows and brings together the elements for process integration (views, content, flows) in a unified, scalable architecture on an industry standard platform. The two principal functions of the PBS are brokering of multiple business processes encapsulated in various back-end systems including workflow engines and business applications, and aggregating content from multiple enterprise information systems in the business context and managing the shared access to this based on the roles of the participants. The dynamic services provided by PBS are accessible to clients through the PBS Interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2002Publication date: October 2, 2003Applicant: International Business Machines Corp.Inventors: Santhosh Kumaran, Prabir Nandi, Kumar Bhaskaran