Patents by Inventor Claudio Cozzi

Claudio Cozzi 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).

  • Patent number: 10169725
    Abstract: A method and associated systems for analyzing a change request of a project that involves an IT system, where IT system contains IT artifacts that have predefined relationships. One or more processors obtain a change request; use information contained in the change request to select an applicable decomposition agent; use information in the selected decomposition agent to decompose the change request into a set of component sub-change requests; correlate at least one of the sub-change requests with one of the IT artifacts; and display the sub-change requests. In alternate implementations, selecting the applicable decomposition agent may require additional user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Claudio Cozzi, Ya B. Dang, Howard M. Hess, Steven M. Kagan, Feng Li, Shao C. Li, Xin Zhou, Jun Zhu
  • Publication number: 20170083842
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may evaluate a conflict risk between parallel projects. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a dependency risk between a first project and a second project is determined based on an artifact submission history of a historical project. Then an overlap risk between the first and second projects is determined based on time schedules of the first and second projects. Next, a conflict risk between the first and second projects is evaluated based on the dependency risk and the overlap risk. Further, embodiments of the present invention may optimize the time schedules of parallel projects thereby enabling parallelization of projects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Claudio Cozzi, Ya Bin Dang, Howard M. Hess, Steven M. Kagan, Feng Li, Shao Chun Li, Jeffrey Lewis Robinson, Xin Zhou
  • Publication number: 20170083843
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may evaluate a conflict risk between parallel projects. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a dependency risk between a first project and a second project is determined based on an artifact submission history of a historical project. Then an overlap risk between the first and second projects is determined based on time schedules of the first and second projects. Next, a conflict risk between the first and second projects is evaluated based on the dependency risk and the overlap risk. Further, embodiments of the present invention may optimize the time schedules of parallel projects thereby enabling parallelization of projects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Claudio Cozzi, Ya Bin Dang, Howard M. Hess, Steven M. Kagan, Feng Li, Shao Chun Li, Jeffrey Lewis Robinson, Xin Zhou
  • Patent number: 9513873
    Abstract: A compute-implemented method and apparatus for assisting release planning, including steps of: obtaining remaining requirements that are expected to be included in a current release plan; obtaining the release plan, which comprises a set of planned requirements that are already included in the release plan and a set of release constraints; determining that there is a conflict between the release constraints and the planned requirements; rendering, in response to this determination, a proposal to create a modified release plan that is a function of the remaining requirements and of the current release plan; and forecasting, as a function of the remaining requirements and of the modified release plan, whether the addition of another requirement to the release plan would create a conflict with the release constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Claudio Cozzi, Ya B. Dang, Howard M. Hess, Steven M. Kagan, Feng Li, Shao C. Li, Xin Zhou, Jun Zhu
  • Patent number: 9202188
    Abstract: A method for impact analysis of change requests of a computing system is provided. The method includes, identifying artifacts and tasks that are impacted by a change request on a target project based on a change request repository, an artifact dependency network and a task-artifact mapping repository. The method further includes, determining an impact analysis priority for each of the identified tasks based on associations among the change request and the identified artifacts and tasks, and a project status tracking repository. The method further includes analyzing an impact of the change request on each of the identified tasks according to the determined impact analysis priority. The method further includes obtaining requirements, requirement dependencies and requirement constraints of the project scope to identifying artifacts and tasks that are impacted by a change request on the target project of the project scope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Claudio Cozzi, Ya Bin Dang, Howard M. Hess, Steven M. Kagan, Feng Li, Shao Chun Li, Jeffrey L. Robinson, Xin Zhou
  • Publication number: 20150121381
    Abstract: A method and associated systems for analyzing a change request of a project that involves an IT system, where IT system contains IT artifacts that have predefined relationships. One or more processors obtain a change request; use information contained in the change request to select an applicable decomposition agent; use information in the selected decomposition agent to decompose the change request into a set of component sub-change requests; correlate at least one of the sub-change requests with one of the IT artifacts; and display the sub-change requests. In alternate implementations, selecting the applicable decomposition agent may require additional user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Claudio Cozzi, Ya B. Dang, Howard M. Hess, Steven M. Kagan, Feng Li, Shao C. Li, Xin Zhou, Jun Zhu
  • Publication number: 20150095875
    Abstract: A compute-implemented method and apparatus for assisting release planning, including steps of: obtaining remaining requirements that are expected to be included in a current release plan; obtaining the release plan, which comprises a set of planned requirements that are already included in the release plan and a set of release constraints; determining that there is a conflict between the release constraints and the planned requirements; rendering, in response to this determination, a proposal to create a modified release plan that is a function of the remaining requirements and of the current release plan; and forecasting, as a function of the remaining requirements and of the modified release plan, whether the addition of another requirement to the release plan would create a conflict with the release constraints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Claudio Cozzi, Ya B. Dang, Howard M. Hess, Steven M. Kagan, Feng Li, Shao C. Li, Xin Zhou, Jun Zhu
  • Publication number: 20150067635
    Abstract: A method for impact analysis of change requests of a computing system is provided. The method includes, identifying artifacts and tasks that are impacted by a change request on a target project based on a change request repository, an artifact dependency network and a task-artifact mapping repository. The method further includes, determining an impact analysis priority for each of the identified tasks based on associations among the change request and the identified artifacts and tasks, and a project status tracking repository. The method further includes analyzing an impact of the change request on each of the identified tasks according to the determined impact analysis priority. The method further includes obtaining requirements, requirement dependencies and requirement constraints of the project scope to identifying artifacts and tasks that are impacted by a change request on the target project of the project scope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Claudio Cozzi, Ya Bin Dang, Howard M. Hess, Steven M. Kagan, Feng Li, Shao Chun Li, Jeffrey L. Robinson, Xin Zhou