Patent Document ID: 8290953
Application ID: 12816003

Base Claim:
1. A method, comprising: identifying rule attributes for each of a plurality of prioritized naming rules, where a combination of the rule attributes represents a plurality of identifiers that uniquely identify resources via one or more of the plurality of prioritized naming rules; determining a naming context that makes the combination of the rule attributes for each of the plurality of prioritized naming rules unique; correlating, via a configuration management database (CMDB), resource names for a plurality of resources generated by a plurality of management products within a single management domain based upon the plurality of prioritized naming rules comprising correlating the resource names for the plurality of resources using the determined naming context and the identified rule attributes for each of the plurality of prioritized naming rules; determining whether each of the plurality of resources has more than one valid name within the single management domain based upon the correlated resource names for the plurality of resources; and selecting, for each resource determined to have more than one valid name within the single management domain, one of the valid names as a master name for the resource using the plurality of prioritized naming rules.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , where selecting, for each resource determined to have more than one valid name within the single management domain, one of the valid names as the master name for the resource using the plurality of prioritized naming rules comprises selecting one of a first name instance created for the resource and a name instance created with a highest priority rule among the plurality of prioritized naming rules.