US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 11 for "Scoring events as likely cause events in a resource network" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,896, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Scoring events as likely cause events in a resource network" was invented by Kristian Jon Stewart (Surrey, Great Britain), Jonathan Ian Settle (Dursley, Great Britain) and Yasser Abduallah (Bayonne, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system are provided for scoring events as likely cause events in a resource network. The method processes incoming events relating to resources in a resource network to correlate related events as a related group and maps the events of the related group onto nodes of a sub-topology representing reso...