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20110083120 | MODELING AND LINKING DOCUMENTS FOR PACKAGED SOFTWARE APPLICATION CONFIGURATION - One or more document templates defining deployment procedures associated with deploying a packaged software application are obtained. One or more objects are created representing the one or more document templates and one or more elements of the one or more documents, and one or more links between the one or more objects are created. The one or more links represent one or more relationships between the created one or more objects. The one or more objects and the one or more links may be stored and/or output in a selected format. | 04-07-2011 |
20110099470 | HARVESTING ASSETS FOR PACKAGED SOFTWARE APPLICATION CONFIGURATION - Harvesting assets for packaged application practices, in one aspect, may include obtaining one or more work products associated with deployment of packaged software applications, extracting content and style, enhancing content and style with models of work products, and storing assets in asset repository. | 04-28-2011 |
20110167070 | REUSING ASSETS FOR PACKAGED SOFTWARE APPLICATION CONFIGURATION - Reusing assets for packaged software application configurations may include defining one or more query criteria based on information associated with a project, querying an asset repository stored in a storage device using the one or more query criteria, receiving a list of one or more assets from the asset repository in response to the querying, and using the one or more assets on the list to compose a document defining deployment procedures associated with deploying a packaged software application. | 07-07-2011 |
20110313932 | MODEL-BASED PROJECT NETWORK - One or more project profiles, one or more people profiles, one or more work product profiles are created and connections are made among the one or more project profiles, one or more people profiles, and one or more work product profiles that form a network of projects, people, work products and others. A profile database stores the network of the one or more project profiles, the one or more people profiles, the one or more work product profiles. Data stored in the profile database is analyzed and one or more people, work products and projects that are related to current project are recommended for use in the current project. | 12-22-2011 |
20120016653 | INTERACTIVE BLUEPRINTING FOR PACKAGED APPLICATIONS - An interactive design of process model for packaged application software installation and configuration generates a process model from a natural language description of software installation or configuration related operation. A data structure representing one or more work products related to the process model is identified, and one or more elements of the data structure are identified that are related to one or more sub-processes of the process model. Input information associated with said one or more sub-processes is captured and stored. The input information is linked with the one or more elements of the data structure related to said one or more sub-processes. The one or more sub-processes in the process model may be also demonstrated through a simulation. | 01-19-2012 |
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20140067443 | BUSINESS PROCESS TRANSFORMATION RECOMMENDATION GENERATION - Embodiments include an apparatus for managing processes including a processing circuit for obtaining process data corresponding to a plurality of processes from at least one of storage, an external device, and a user, and for performing a method. The method includes parsing the process data to identify key features of the plurality of processes and recognizing, by the processor, commonality among two or more of the plurality of processes based on the key features. The method further includes generating suggestions for transforming one or more of the plurality of processes based on the commonality among the two or more of the plurality of processes. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067444 | BUSINESS PROCESS TRANSFORMATION RECOMMENDATION GENERATION - Embodiments include a method for managing processes. The method includes collecting, by a processor, data from a plurality of processes. The method also includes recognizing, by the processor, commonality among two or more of the plurality of processes based on the data. The method also includes generating suggestions for transforming one or more of the plurality of processes based on the commonality. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067458 | PROCESS TRANSFORMATION RECOMMENDATION GENERATION - Embodiments include a method for managing processes. The method includes collecting data from first processes and second processes stored in memory, the first processes differing from the second processes by at least one of a formality level and a log detail level. The method includes identifying commonalities among the first processes and second processes and organizing the first processes and second stored processes into clusters based on the commonalities. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067459 | PROCESS TRANSFORMATION RECOMMENDATION GENERATION - Embodiments include a method for analyzing processes. The method includes receiving, by a processor, a process query and parsing, by the processor, the process query to extract one or more key features from the process query. The method includes determining a relationship between the process query and one or more stored clusters of processes organized at least according to key features based on the parsing of the process query, where the one or more stored clusters are less than all of the stored clusters. The method also includes comparing the one or more key features of the process query with processes in the one or more stored clusters and generating a list of one or more stored processes being the most similar to the process query based on the comparing of the one or more key features of the process query with the processes in the one or more stored clusters. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067481 | ESTIMATION OF EFFECTS OF PROCESS CUSTOMIZATION - Embodiments include an apparatus for managing changes in processes. The apparatus includes memory and a processor. The memory includes a base process repository for storing one or more stored base processes, a modified process repository for storing one or more stored modified processes of the one or more stored base processes, and an effects repository for storing effects associated with the stored modified processes of the one or more stored base processes. The processor is configured to determine a difference between a received modified process and the one or more stored base processes, to compare the difference to stored differences between the stored modified processes and the stored base processes, and to estimate effects of the received modified process based on the comparison of the difference of the received modified process with the stored differences and based on effects associated with the stored differences in the effects repository. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067482 | ESTIMATION OF EFFECTS OF PROCESS CUSTOMIZATION - Embodiments include a method of estimating effects of modifications to a process. The method includes determining, by a processor, first differences between a graphical representation of a first modified process and a base process having been modified by the first modified process. The method also includes comparing, by the processor, the first differences with second differences between a graphical representation of at least one second modified process and the base process. The method also includes estimating a first effect of the first differences relative to the base process based on a similarity between the first differences and the second differences and based on at least one second effect of the second differences relative to the base process, the second effect stored and associated with the second differences in memory. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067848 | ESTIMATION OF EFFECTS OF PROCESS CUSTOMIZATION - An apparatus for suggesting changes to processes includes memory and a processor. The memory includes a base process repository for storing data representing one or more base processes, a modified process repository for storing data representing one or more modified processes modifying the one or more base processes, and an effects repository for storing data associated with effects of the one or more modified processes relative to the base processes. The processor is configured to receive data corresponding to a desired base process and desired effects, to compare the desired effects to effects stored in the effects repository, and to provide one or more suggested modified processes from the modified process repository based on a similarity of the suggested modified processes with the desired base process and a similarity of effects associated with the suggested modified processes with the desired effects. | 03-06-2014 |
20140089056 | ESTIMATION OF EFFECTS OF PROCESS CUSTOMIZATION - Embodiments include a method of estimating effects of modifications to a process. The method includes determining, by a processor, first differences between a graphical representation of a first modified process and a base process having been modified by the first modified process. The method also includes comparing, by the processor, the first differences with second differences between a graphical representation of at least one second modified process and the base process. The method also includes estimating a first effect of the first differences relative to the base process based on a similarity between the first differences and the second differences and based on at least one second effect of the second differences relative to the base process, the second effect stored and associated with the second differences in memory. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089058 | ESTIMATION OF EFFECTS OF PROCESS CUSTOMIZATION - A computer program product estimates effects of modifications to a process. The computer program product includes a storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes determining first differences between a graphical representation of a first modified process and a base process having been modified by the modified process, comparing the first differences with second differences between a graphical representation of at least one second modified process and the base process, and estimating a first effect of the first differences relative to the base process based on a similarity between the first differences and the second differences and based on at least one second effect of the second differences relative to the base process, the at least one second effect stored, and associated with the second differences in memory. | 03-27-2014 |
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20140279735 | PROCESS MODEL GENERATED USING BIASED PROCESS MINING - Embodiments relate to a method, system, and computer program product for a process model. The method includes extracting data associated with a process execution trace of a running process and extracting any prior knowledge data relating to the running process. The method also includes calculating at least one transition confidence parameter for the prior knowledge data; and identifying any existing process models relating to the running process. A confidence trace bias is also generated for any existing process model identified. An enhanced bias value is then calculated by combining the confidence trace bias value and value of the transition confidence parameter. Using as input the extracted process execution trace data, the prior knowledge data, the identified existing model and the enhanced bias value, a learned process model is then generated. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279769 | PROCESS MODEL GENERATED USING BIASED PROCESS MINING - Embodiments relate to a method, system, and computer program product for a process model. The method includes extracting data associated with a process execution trace of a running process and extracting any prior knowledge data relating to the running process. The method also includes calculating at least one transition confidence parameter for the prior knowledge data; and identifying any existing process models relating to the running process. A confidence trace bias is also generated for any existing process model identified. An enhanced bias value is then calculated by combining the confidence trace bias value and value of the transition confidence parameter. Using as input the extracted process execution trace data, the prior knowledge data, the identified existing model and the enhanced bias value, a learned process model is then generated. | 09-18-2014 |
20140379716 | Process-Aware Code Migration - A mechanism is provided for process-aware code migration. A plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges are annotated within a call graph with information from execution data for executing the code and a topology of the data processing system to form an annotated call graph. Each node in the plurality of nodes is clustered into an associated cluster based on a subset of attributes used from the execution data or the topology to generate the annotated call graph to form a clustered call graph comprising a plurality of clusters. The execution data associated with each cluster in the plurality of clusters is process mined to form an existing process model. Processes identified within the existing process model are mapped to a proposed business-process model thereby forming a set of correlations between the existing process model and the proposed business-process model. | 12-25-2014 |
20150032499 | BUSINESS PROCESS EVENT MAPPING - Methods and systems for mapping an event type to an activity in a business process model are disclosed. In accordance with one such method, the event type and the activity are tokenized by determining event tokens for event type labels in the event type and determining activity tokens for activity labels in the activity. In addition, a score matrix is generated for pairs of the event tokens and the activity tokens indicating a degree of similarity between the event token and the activity token in each of the pairs. The method also includes determining whether the event type and the activity are correlated by determining scores of the pairs of event tokens and activity tokens that are ranked highest in said score matrix. Further, a mapping report indicating whether the event type and the activity are correlated in the business process model is output. | 01-29-2015 |
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20110093732 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Power Over Ethernet (PoE) device (PD) having a controller to receive signals over a first cable having twisted pair wires from at least one of a network element and a gateway where the network element is associated with a service provider where the gateway is associated with a premises and where the service provider provides network communications to the premises, adjust the signals, transmit the adjusted signals over a second cable having twisted pair wires to at least one of the network element and the gateway, and receive power from at least one of the network element and the gateway, where the power is received over at least one of the first and second cables, where the power is received according to PoE protocol, and where the PD is positioned between the network element and the gateway. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 04-21-2011 |
20130136009 | Apparatus and Method for Providing Network Communications - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Power Over Ethernet (PoE) device (PD) having a controller to receive signals over a first cable having twisted pair wires from at least one of a network element and a gateway where the network element is associated with a service provider where the gateway is associated with a premises and where the service provider provides network communications to the premises, adjust the signals, transmit the adjusted signals over a second cable having twisted pair wires to at least one of the network element and the gateway, and receive power from at least one of the network element and the gateway, where the power is received over at least one of the first and second cables, where the power is received according to PoE protocol, and where the PD is positioned between the network element and the gateway. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-30-2013 |
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20090034541 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ROUTING TRAFFIC BETWEEN NODES IN A NETWORK THAT ARE CONNECTED BY REDUNDANT LINKS - A communications network is operated by providing a plurality of redundant links between a first network node and a second network node. A first identifier is associated with a first one of the plurality of redundant links and a second identifier is associated with a second one of the plurality of redundant links. The first and second identifiers are associated with the regulatory constraint. Traffic that is marked with the first identifier is routed to the first one of the plurality of redundant links and traffic that is marked with the second identifier is routed to the second one of the plurality of redundant links so that operation of the communications network is in compliance with the regulatory constraint. | 02-05-2009 |
20110026930 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO UPGRADE COMMUNICATION SERVICES IN SUBSCRIBER DISTRIBUTION AREAS - Example methods and apparatus to upgrade communication services in subscriber distribution areas are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves installing an optical network unit communicatively coupled to an optical line terminal serving a subscriber distribution area communicatively coupled to the optical line terminal. The optical network unit includes a first subscriber downlink interface to serve a first subscriber premises and a second subscriber downlink interface to serve a second subscriber premises. A first communication service is provided to the first subscriber premises via a first electrically conductive medium communicatively coupled to the first subscriber downlink interface via a first removably attachable subscriber downlink module. A second communication service is provided to the second subscriber premises via a second electrically conductive medium communicatively coupled to the second subscriber downlink interface via a second removably attachable subscriber downlink module. In response to receiving a request to upgrade the first communication service, the first removably attachable subscriber downlink module is replaced with a third removably attachable subscriber downlink module, an optical transmission medium is connected between the third removably attachable subscriber downlink module and the first subscriber premises while retaining the second electrically conductive medium communicatively coupled to the second subscriber downlink interface to provide the second communication service to the second subscriber premises. | 02-03-2011 |
20140013147 | Apparatus and Method for Providing Network Communications - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Power Over Ethernet (PoE) device (PD) having a controller to receive signals over a first cable having twisted pair wires from at least one of a network element and a gateway where the network element is associated with a service provider where the gateway is associated with a premises and where the service provider provides network communications to the premises, adjust the signals, transmit the adjusted signals over a second cable having twisted pair wires to at least one of the network element and the gateway, and receive power from at least one of the network element and the gateway, where the power is received over at least one of the first and second cables, where the power is received according to PoE protocol, and where the PD is positioned between the network element and the gateway. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 01-09-2014 |
20140355611 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Routing Traffic Between Nodes in a Network that are Connected by Redundant Links - A communications network is operated by providing a plurality of redundant links between a first network node and a second network node. A first identifier is associated with a first one of the plurality of redundant links and a second identifier is associated with a second one of the plurality of redundant links. The first and second identifiers are associated with the regulatory constraint. Traffic that is marked with the first identifier is routed to the first one of the plurality of redundant links and traffic that is marked with the second identifier is routed to the second one of the plurality of redundant links so that operation of the communications network is in compliance with the regulatory constraint. | 12-04-2014 |