Patent ID: 9400970
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for automatically identifying a capacity of a resource, wherein a first type of resource comprises a plurality of instances of the first type of resource, wherein a plurality of instance capacities of the first type of resource are each comprised by an instance of the plurality of instances, wherein a total available capacity of the first type of resource is a sum of all instance capacities of the plurality of instance capacities, and wherein a disruption of a first instance of the plurality of instances results in a corresponding reduction of a first instance capacity comprised by the first instance, the method comprising: a processor of a computer system accepting information that identifies the plurality of instances, the processor identifying an initial value of the total available capacity as a sum of the first instance capacity, the second instance capacity, and the third instance capacity; the processor receiving a set of resource relationships, the processor determining that the initial disruption of the first instance directly results in a reduction of the first instance capacity by a first-instance reduction amount; the processor inferring that the initial disruption indirectly results in a reduction of the second instance capacity by a second-instance reduction amount, wherein the inferring is a function of the first relationship; the processor further inferring that the initial disruption indirectly results in a reduction of the third instance capacity by a third-instance reduction amount, wherein the further inferring is a function of the second relationship; the processor decreasing the total available capacity by the sum of the first-instance reduction amount, the second-instance reduction amount, and the third-instance reduction amount.