Patent Document ID: 8620851
Application ID: 12952314
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for determining fuzzy cause and effect relationships in an intelligent workload management system; comprising: an information technology infrastructure; multiple input sources that provide information describing an operational state of the information technology infrastructure, wherein the information provided from the multiple input sources describe multiple potential causes associated with the operational state of the information technology infrastructure and multiple potential effects associated with the operational state of the information technology infrastructure; and a fuzzy cause and effect engine communicatively coupled to the information technology infrastructure, wherein the frizzy cause and effect engine includes one or more processors configured to: build a cause and effect relationship bucket that combines the information describing the multiple potential causes and the multiple potential effects associated with the operational state of the information technology infrastructure; apply one or more labels to the multiple potential effects in the cause and effect relationship bucket, wherein the one or more labels identify one or more resources in the information technology infrastructure that the multiple potential causes may affect; identify one or more patterns among the information that describes the multiple potential causes and the multiple potential effects based on the one or more labels applied to the multiple potential effects; and apply fuzzy logic to the one or more patterns to determine one or more possible relationships among the multiple potential causes and the multiple potential effects associated with the operational state of the information technology infrastructure, and wherein the fuzzy logic applied to the one or more patterns produces one or more true calculations indicating that a first subset of the multiple potential causes and the multiple potential effects are associated with the one or more possible relationships and one or more false calculations indicating that a second subset of the multiple potential causes and the multiple potential effects are not associated with any of the one or more possible relationships.