Patents by Inventor Tomasz P. Kania

Tomasz P. Kania 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: 11120008
    Abstract: A verification check is performed for a configuration management database (CMDB) configuration item (CI), the CMDB CI being an information technology asset of a computing environment and being previously discovered as part of a CMDB CI discovery procedure for a CMDB system, and discovered on a hosting component hosting the CMDB CI. The discovery procedure provides configuration data associated with the CMDB CI, and the configuration data is stored as part of CMDB configuration information of the CMDB system. Performance of the verification check of the CMDB CI is tailored to the CMDB CI, and includes using the configuration data provided by the discovery procedure to target at least one inquiry to the hosting component, which may include an inquiry to the CMDB CI thereof. An updated status of the CMDB CI is determined based on performing the verification check.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jaroslaw Jurowicz, Tomasz P. Kania, Ewa Kilar, Wojciech A. Wojcik
  • Patent number: 11048688
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide automated systems and methods for selectively finding and deleting dormant data (out of data, inactive data) in a configuration management database (CMDB), or in a database which has similar characteristics. The method includes using a directed graph where each node of the directed graph represents a configuration item, and traversing the directed graph in order to determine inactive or dormant data, and all of the objects which depend on that data. Configuration items are deleted only when all of the other configuration items from which it depends contain dormant data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jaroslaw Jurowicz, Tomasz P. Kania, Ewa K. Kilar, Andrzej W. Laskawiec
  • Publication number: 20190236061
    Abstract: A verification check is performed for a configuration management database (CMDB) configuration item (CI), the CMDB CI being an information technology asset of a computing environment and being previously discovered as part of a CMDB CI discovery procedure for a CMDB system, and discovered on a hosting component hosting the CMDB CI. The discovery procedure provides configuration data associated with the CMDB CI, and the configuration data is stored as part of CMDB configuration information of the CMDB system. Performance of the verification check of the CMDB CI is tailored to the CMDB CI, and includes using the configuration data provided by the discovery procedure to target at least one inquiry to the hosting component, which may include an inquiry to the CMDB CI thereof. An updated status of the CMDB CI is determined based on performing the verification check.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Jaroslaw JUROWICZ, Tomasz P. KANIA, Ewa KILAR, Wojciech A. WOJCIK
  • Patent number: 10339128
    Abstract: A verification check is performed for a configuration management database (CMDB) configuration item (CI), the CMDB CI being an information technology asset of a computing environment and being previously discovered as part of a CMDB CI discovery procedure for a CMDB system, and discovered on a hosting component hosting the CMDB CI. The discovery procedure provides configuration data associated with the CMDB CI, and the configuration data is stored as part of CMDB configuration information of the CMDB system. Performance of the verification check of the CMDB CI is tailored to the CMDB CI, and includes using the configuration data provided by the discovery procedure to target at least one inquiry to the hosting component, which may include an inquiry to the CMDB CI thereof. An updated status of the CMDB CI is determined based on performing the verification check.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jaroslaw Jurowicz, Tomasz P. Kania, Ewa Kilar, Wojciech A. Wojcik
  • Publication number: 20180293271
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide automated systems and methods for selectively finding and deleting dormant data (out of data, inactive data) in a configuration management database (CMDB), or in a database which has similar characteristics. The method includes using a directed graph where each node of the directed graph represents a configuration item, and traversing the directed graph in order to determine inactive or dormant data, and all of the objects which depend on that data. Configuration items are deleted only when all of the other configuration items from which it depends contain dormant data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Jaroslaw Jurowicz, Tomasz P. Kania, Ewa K. Kilar, Andrzej W. Laskawiec
  • Patent number: 10025815
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide automated systems and methods for selectively finding and deleting dormant data (out of data, inactive data) in a configuration management database (CMDB), or in a database which has similar characteristics. The method includes using a directed graph where each node of the directed graph represents a configuration item, and traversing the directed graph in order to determine inactive or dormant data, and all of the objects which depend on that data. Configuration items are deleted only when all of the other configuration items from which it depends contain dormant data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jaroslaw Jurowicz, Tomasz P. Kania, Ewa K. Kilar, Andrzej W. Laskawiec
  • Publication number: 20170337236
    Abstract: A verification check is performed for a configuration management database (CMDB) configuration item (CI), the CMDB CI being an information technology asset of a computing environment and being previously discovered as part of a CMDB CI discovery procedure for a CMDB system, and discovered on a hosting component hosting the CMDB CI. The discovery procedure provides configuration data associated with the CMDB CI, and the configuration data is stored as part of CMDB configuration information of the CMDB system. Performance of the verification check of the CMDB CI is tailored to the CMDB CI, and includes using the configuration data provided by the discovery procedure to target at least one inquiry to the hosting component, which may include an inquiry to the CMDB CI thereof. An updated status of the CMDB CI is determined based on performing the verification check.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Jaroslaw JUROWICZ, Tomasz P. KANIA, Ewa KILAR, Wojciech A. Wojcik
  • Publication number: 20170017679
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide automated systems and methods for selectively finding and deleting dormant data (out of data, inactive data) in a configuration management database (CMDB), or in a database which has similar characteristics. The method includes using a directed graph where each node of the directed graph represents a configuration item, and traversing the directed graph in order to determine inactive or dormant data, and all of the objects which depend on that data. Configuration items are deleted only when all of the other configuration items from which it depends contain dormant data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Jaroslaw Jurowicz, Tomasz P. Kania, Ewa K. Kilar, Andrzej W. Laskawiec