Patent Document ID: 9521043
Application ID: 14165684
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: monitoring data communications between a plurality of resources in a computing environment; generating usage data, based on the data communications, for a plurality of resources; defining a resource pair from the plurality of resources, the resource pair including a first resource and a second resource, the data communications including a communication between the first resource and the second resource; determining resource relationship data including the usage data corresponding to the resource pair; computing a measure of bonding between the first resource and the second resource based, at least in part, on recency of the communication between the first resource and the second resource; generating a set of topology graph(s) based upon the measure of bonding between the first resource and the second resource; and displaying the set of topology graph(s), wherein the topology graph(s) indicate the measure of bonding between the pair of resources.