PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16026831
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["709", "221000"]

Abstract:
A method and associated systems for predicting a degree of risk associated with a planned change to a computer server or other electronic component. A computerized change-management system receives Probability and impact inputs derived from user-derived input, from which it determines a Baseline risk of change failure. The system processes mined data to determine an historic change-failure rate as a function of a type of change, and computes a predictive incident probability based on a predictive analytics engine's forecast of whether a particular type of server will be problematic. The system then computes a final Change Risk by adjusting the Baseline risk as a function of the historic change-failure rate, the predictive incident-probability, and a Baseline-specific weighting factor. If the resulting Change Risk is judged to be elevated, the system initiates collateral actions and notifications intended to reduce the probability and impact of a change failure.

Claim (Index 15):
A computer program product, comprising a computer-readable hardware storage device having a computer-readable program code stored therein, the program code configured to be executed by a computerized change-management system, of a network-management platform, comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a computer-readable hardware storage device coupled to the processor, the storage device containing program code configured to be run by the processor via the memory to implement a method for identifying and responding to a failure of a server-change operation, the method comprising:\n the processor computing a baseline risk of change failure as a function of users' answers to survey questions about a planned server change,\n where the planned server change comprises a reconfiguration of virtual server of a virtual network, and \n where each answer of the users' answers either identifies a probability that the planned server change will fail or identifies an impact of a failure of the planned server change; \n the processor identifying a historic change-failure rate as a function of mined data that characterizes past attempted server changes; the processor calculating a predictive incident probability as a function of a predictive analytics engine's prediction of a likelihood that the virtual server is of a type that is known to be problematic during server changes the processor deriving a change-risk value by adjusting the baseline risk as a function of the historic change-failure rate and of the predictive incident probability; and the processor initiating, in order to reduce any impact of a failure of the planned server change, collateral activities as a function of the change-risk value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78409
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14954134', '14730234', '10661756', '14860766', '14547225']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2143370041072707
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5913187996334556
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2520351836598892
- Mean Citation Score: 236.998426
- Max Citation Score: 508.9812
- Similarity Product: 443.5809764471769

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test