Patent ID: 8001226
Filing Date: 2011-08-16
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A surplus determination system that includes a computer for determining a presence/absence of a surplus in an IT resource, the surplus determination system to be connected to a management system that includes a computer, among a plurality of IT resources working respectively in a plurality of business systems each having a computer operated independently, operating a surplus of the IT resource in any one of the business systems to another business system that lacks the IT resource, the surplus determination system comprising: a working data recording part to record working data representing a working situation of the IT resource; a surplus determination data recording part to record surplus determination data in which a surplus determination rule representing a requirement of the working situation for the IT resource to be determined to have a surplus and a period targeted for determination of a presence/absence of a surplus is described; a surplus determining part to read the working data recorded in the working data recording part and the surplus determination data recorded in the surplus determination data recording part, and to determine a presence/absence of a surplus in the IT resource, based on whether or not the working situation represented by the working data corresponding to the period included in the surplus determination rule satisfies the requirement of the working situation represented by the surplus determination rule; a supply condition recording part to record supply condition data representing a supply condition under which the management system supplies the surplus of the IT resource in any one of the business systems among the plurality of business systems to another business system, and to contain at least data representing an amount that can be supplied in the surplus; a submitting part to output the supply condition data recorded in the supply condition recording part to the management system, in a case where the surplus determining part determines that there is a surplus; and a partial data recording part to record partial data representing a partial requirement partially satisfying the requirement of the working situation represented by the surplus determination rule, wherein the surplus determining part to read the working data recorded in the working data recording part, the surplus determination data recorded in the surplus determination data recording part, and the partial data recorded in the partial data recording part, and to determine a presence/absence of a possibility of occurrence of a surplus, based on whether or not the working situation represented by the working data satisfies the partial requirement represented by the partial data in the requirement of the working situation represented by the surplus determination rule, and the submitting part to output the supply condition data recorded in the supply condition recording part to the management system as a predicted supply condition, in a case where the surplus determining part determines that there is a possibility of occurrence of a surplus.