Elizabeth A Nichols

US Patent:

7831464, Nov 9, 2010

Filed:

Apr 6, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/278855

Inventors:

Elizabeth A. Nichols - Great Falls VA, US
Patrick James McNerthney - Makawao HI, US
Biao Ren - Acton MA, US

Assignee:

ClearPoint Metrics, Inc. - Burlington MA

International Classification:

G06F 11/34

US Classification:

705 11

Abstract:

Techniques for dynamically representing distributed information are disclosed. According to one embodiment, metrics for deployed resources in a predefined environment (e. g. , an enterprise) is designed. The metrics includes at least various logic and data sources and is deployed as one or more Metrics Definition Packages (MDP), wherein data sources are used for calculating such metrics. The metrics is defined in terms of the data sources and their associated meta-data, but has no dependency upon specific external systems that are eventually used to populate the data sources when the Metrics Definition Package is executed. The metrics results from the execution of the Metrics Definition Package in accordance with the deployed resources (e. g. , storage space, and security means) are represented in what is referred to as a Scorecard Definition Package (SDP) that is designed to represent the metrics results in a dynamic and comprehensible manner.