PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860720
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["718", "104000"]

Abstract:
A method and associated systems for ensuring resilience of a business function manages resource availability for projects that perform mission-critical tasks for the business function. The method and systems create a model that reveals dependencies among types of resources needed by a project, such that the model describes how the unavailability of one instance of a resource propagates disruptions to other instances of the same type of resource. This model automatically identifies a resource type as being critical if a disruption of an instance of the resource type would render a project task infeasible, and if restoring that task would incur unacceptable cost. The model may also automatically identify a first resource type as being critical for a second resource type when disruption of the first resource type reduces the available capacity of the second resource type to an unacceptable level.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for ensuring resilience of a business function, the method comprising:\n a processor of a computer system setting an initial value of a total available capacity of a first resource equal to a sum of a first available amount, a second available amount, and a third available amount,\n where the first available amount is an available amount of a first instance of the first resource, \n where the second available amount is an available amount of a second instance of the first resource, \n where the third available amount is an available amount of a third instance of the first resource, \n where the business function is supported in a critical manner by a planned project, and \n where the planned project requires the first, second, and third available amounts, respectively, of the first, second, and third instances; \n the processor receiving a set of dependency relationships,\n where a first dependency relationship of the set of dependency relationships identifies that an initial disruption of the first instance would cause a second disruption of the second instance, and \n where a second dependency relationship of the set of dependency relationships identifies that a disruption of either the first instance or the second instance would cause a third disruption of the third instance, \n the processor determining that the initial disruption results in:\n a reduction of the first available amount by a first-instance reduction amount, \n a reduction of the second available amount by a second-instance reduction amount, and \n a reduction of the third available amount by a third-instance reduction amount; and \n the processor, as a result of the determining, decreasing the total available capacity of the first resource by a sum of the first-instance reduction amount, the second-instance reduction amount, and the third-instance reduction amount.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98649
- Patent Class: 718.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14249782', '14250684', '13483492', '12885705', '13338559']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4751092593832957
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5701283539368156
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4846111688386477
- Mean Citation Score: 307.31333600000005
- Max Citation Score: 437.00516
- Similarity Product: 280.3027065862226

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test