Allan S Anderson

US Patent:

20080082350, Apr 3, 2008

Filed:

Mar 26, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/691028

Inventors:

John Ainsworth - Mount Sinai NY, US
Ronald J. Cass - Cleveland Heights OH, US
Allan T. Anderson - Northport NY, US

Assignee:

Computer Associates Think, Inc. - Islandia NY

International Classification:

G06Q 10/00

US Classification:

705 1

Abstract:

A system for improving uniformity of assets within an entity includes a database for storing data. The data stored in the database is associated with a plurality of assets which are associated with a particular entity, and the data for each asset of the plurality of assets includes information associated with a plurality of features of the asset. For example, the plurality of features may include a vendor of the asset, an operating system of the asset, an age of the asset, a speed of the asset, an amount of memory associated with the asset, a number of computer processing units associated with the assets, and/or software installed on the asset. The system also includes a processing arrangement for retrieving the data from the database, for grouping the assets into one or more clusters of assets based on the data, for determining a hypothetical standard metric associated with the assets included in the cluster, and for determining a degree of difference between each of the assets included in the cluster and the hypothetical standard metric.