Patent ID: 8825838
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: categorizing one or more business process application service groups, each business process application service group comprising one or more nodes of a plurality of nodes, the one or more nodes contributing to a business process; analyzing an ontological definition of an enterprise network comprising the plurality of nodes, wherein the ontological definition describes operational usage and current state of the plurality of nodes; identifying, based on the ontological definition of the enterprise network, one or more structures within the enterprise network to identify at least one uncategorized business process application service group; and determining whether the identified uncategorized business process application service group correlates to the one or more categorized business process application service groups to categorize the identified uncategorized business process application service group, wherein the determining comprises comparing an ontological structure of the identified uncategorized business process application service group to an ontological structure of the one or more categorized business process application service groups.