Patents by Inventor Cathy A. Fulton

Cathy A. Fulton has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9634851
    Abstract: The disclosure presents a system, method, and computer readable medium for computing network latencies. Network devices using flow processors create network traffic summary information in the form of flow records. A harvester may gather, process, and analyze flow records to find matching flows. Using matching flows, a harvester computes the latency, either one-way or round-trip, between two devices on the network. This information may be exported or stored on other devices on the network. The teachings of the present disclosure enable wide network coverage through the use of existing network traffic summary records. Further, the present disclosure mitigates network slowdowns associated with monitoring equipment. The present disclosure also reduces or eliminates the need for clock synchronization between devices on the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Ben Haley, Cathy Fulton, David Jordan
  • Publication number: 20100265835
    Abstract: The disclosure presents a system, method, and computer readable medium for computing network latencies. Network devices using flow processors create network traffic summary information in the form of flow records. A harvester may gather, process, and analyze flow records to find matching flows. Using matching flows, a harvester computes the latency, either one-way or round-trip, between two devices on the network. This information may be exported or stored on other devices on the network. The teachings of the present disclosure enable wide network coverage through the use of existing network traffic summary records. Further, the present disclosure mitigates network slowdowns associated with monitoring equipment. The present disclosure also reduces or eliminates the need for clock synchronization between devices on the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Ben Haley, Cathy Fulton, David Jordan
  • Patent number: 6980511
    Abstract: A method of adaptive resource allocation in transmitting data is provided. In particular, the method of the present invention is applicable to scheduling bandwidths using a modified and dynamic weighted round robin process. The method includes the steps of allocating a resource to each of a plurality of data transmitting active connections, the plurality of active connections belonging to more than one class of service. Then the method determines a lender class of service for each active connection from which resources may be reallocated to the active connection, and periodically comparing the resource usage of an active connection to an upper threshold and a lower threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Santera Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Na Li, San-qi Li, Cathy A. Fulton
  • Publication number: 20050262237
    Abstract: A method for a service monitor of a computing environment includes monitoring application network transactions and behaviors for the computing environment, the computing environment including client subnets accessing servers, the monitoring independent of client site monitors; decomposing the monitored transactions and behaviors into network, server and application quality components; using the components to identify services, servers and client subnets as associated with a quality issue; and implementing an active investigation on the services, servers and client subnets to gather statistical data to assist root cause analysis independent of a network monitoring interruption; The quality issue might be a performance issue, such as excessive response times, excessive loss rates, or small transfer rates. The quality issue might be an availability issue, such as an unreachable network node or a missing web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Inventors: Cathy Fulton, Benjamin Haley, Jason Spofford
  • Publication number: 20020167942
    Abstract: A system is provided for monitoring response-time behavior of arbitrary applications. The system provides packet-level and transaction-level response times. The response time delay is separated into network and server components to identify bottlenecks. The network delay component can be updated using continual innovations. Response time computations are based on the actual application from any desired clients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Inventor: Cathy Fulton