Patent ID: 7774696
Filing Date: 2010-08-10
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for generating a change approval plan for a computing system, said computing system having at least one component and at least two user groups, and each said user group having an approver, the method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a request to change said at least one said component; determining, by said computing device, components affected by said request to change; determining, by said computing device, an initial set of approvals to be obtained from at least one of said approvers based on dependencies of said components affected by said request to change with other components, and based on the approvers required for each said affected and dependent component; rearranging, by said computing device, said initial set of approvals into sub-groups such that components falling within each said sub-group are dependent only upon components within a respective same sub-group; identifying, by said computing device, an approver for each said sub-group and requesting, by said computing device, approval of each said approver identified for each of said sub-groups corresponding to said initial set of approvals rearranged into said sub-groups; allocating, by said computing device, a change time for each of said approvals in said sub-groups; and validating, by said computing device, said change times for each said approval against a respective approver's availability.