Enterprise system having a smart distance among artifacts, and apparatus and method for providing the smart distance among the artifacts

• US 7,461,125 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2003
• Issued: 12/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lei, Hui, Nandi, Prabir, Jeng, Jun-Jang, Heath, Fenno F. III, Cohn, David, Chung, Jen-Yao, Kumaran, Santhosh
• Primary Examiner(s): Hartman, Jr.; Ronald D
• Application Number:
  US10/673,340
• Publication Number:
  US 20050086303A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,890 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1,5,7,8,10,15,28 709/204,223,224
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 80/40 Minimising material used in manufacturing processes
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/80 Management or planning

Abstract

An enterprise system includes a plurality of artifacts (e.g., persons, objects, databases, autonomous elements, intelligent agents, information systems, etc), and a smart distance (e.g., a distance which may optimize the performance of the enterprise system) between the plurality of artifacts.

Claims

1. An enterprise system, comprising:

a plurality of artifacts;

a smart distance between said plurality of artifacts; and

a processing device for determining said smart distance between said plurality of artifacts according to a predetermined algorithm, said algorithm comprising;

representing a distance from artifact a_i to artifact a_j as a vector d_ij=<

|c₁|, . . . ,|c_Iij|>

;

representing a distance configuration at time τ

by a matrix