Patent ID: 9104991
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for assessing an application for retirement, the method comprising: receiving, at a processing device, input from one or more users, the input regarding attributes indicative of retirement of applications and in response to survey questions formulated based on Six Sigma Voice of the Customer (VOC) processing; refining, by a processing device, the received input into a plurality of categories and requirement statements critical to application quality using analytical hierarchy processing; prioritizing, by a processing device, the attributes using requirement statements critical to application quality within multiple dimensions using a quality function diagram, thereby determining a list of attributes indicative of application retirement; further prioritizing, by a processing device, the attributes using regression testing, thereby shortening the list of attributes indicative of retirement; generating, by a processing device, a list of applications comprising a plurality of applications, the generating comprising classifying each application into one or more of a plurality of classifications; receiving, at a processing device, data comprising a set of attribute data comprising portions corresponding to each of the applications in the list of applications, the attribute data relating to one or more attributes in the shortened determined list of attributes indicative of application retirement and other data; filtering, by a processing device, the set of attribute data to remove attribute data that does not relate to one or more attributes in the shortened determined list of attributes indicative of application retirement from the set of attribute data; filtering, by a processing device, the data to remove the other data from the data; determining, by a processing device, one or more of the applications in the list to assess for retirement, the determining comprising filtering, based on each application's determined classification, the list of applications, thereby removing one or more applications from the list of applications; filtering, by a processing device and based on each application's classification, the set of attribute data, the filtering comprising removing the portions of the set of attribute data corresponding to the one or more applications removed from the list of applications, thereby resulting in a filtered set of attribute data; translating, by a processing device, at least some of the filtered set of attribute data into two or more translated values based at least in part on one or more predetermined values; eliminating, by a processing device, at least one of the two or more translated values, thereby resulting in a remaining set of translated values; summing by a processing device, the remaining set of translated values, thereby resulting in a combined value; and conditioning, by a processing device, the combined value by: