Patents by Inventor Charles Van Niman

Charles Van Niman 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for analyzing system events
    Patent number: 8949169
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods facilitate analysis of events associated with a plurality of computer systems. Event occurrence items are compared with event rules of event rule sets associated with each computer system to determine whether the items are potentially significant as determined by matching with the event rule sets. A scorer associated with each computer system assigns a score to each event occurrence item to provide a relative indication of the potential significance of the event occurrence item. An interface is used to query the scored event occurrence items from each of the plurality of computer systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Inventors: Tim Shelton, David Harris, James McFadyen, Charles Van Niman
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING SYSTEM EVENTS
    Publication number: 20120284221
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods facilitate analysis of events associated with a plurality of computer systems. Event occurrence items are compared with event rules of event rule sets associated with each computer system to determine whether the items are potentially significant as determined by matching with the event rule sets. A scorer associated with each computer system assigns a score to each event occurrence item to provide a relative indication of the potential significance of the event occurrence item. An interface is used to query the scored event occurrence items from each of the plurality of computer systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: Tim Shelton, David Harris, James McFadyen, Charles Van Niman