Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Willoughby

Jeffrey Willoughby 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: 11789798
    Abstract: An apparatus includes circuitry configured to maintain a record of a plurality of owners and at least one test operation owned by an owner; prompt automatically the owner in response to a failure of the one test operation; maintain a log of actions taken on the one test operation, and provide availability to the log of actions; update an estimated time to completion, and notify a management entity of the updated estimated time to completion; mark and prioritize an order related to the one test operation, in response to the estimated time to completion being within a threshold of a delivery date; rank the marked order with other marked orders by a risk of not being able to meet the delivery date; and notify the owner of the ranking with an urgent message, in response to the marked order failing to meet the delivery date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shrey Shrivastava, Jeffrey Willoughby, Shuxin Lin, Yuanchen Hu, Dinesh C. Verma
  • Patent number: 11741065
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include detecting an anomaly in a database of hardware, firmware, and software events. An exemplary method includes determining whether a previously addressed anomaly is a duplicate of the anomaly, addressing the anomaly according to a state of the previously addressed anomaly based on the previously addressed anomaly being a duplicate of the anomaly, and addressing the anomaly according to machine learning based on the previously addressed anomaly not being the duplicate of the anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edward C. McCain, Jeffrey Nettey, Barin Bhattacharya, Jeffrey Willoughby
  • Publication number: 20230153188
    Abstract: An apparatus includes circuitry configured to maintain a record of a plurality of owners and at least one test operation owned by an owner; prompt automatically the owner in response to a failure of the one test operation; maintain a log of actions taken on the one test operation, and provide availability to the log of actions; update an estimated time to completion, and notify a management entity of the updated estimated time to completion; mark and prioritize an order related to the one test operation, in response to the estimated time to completion being within a threshold of a delivery date; rank the marked order with other marked orders by a risk of not being able to meet the delivery date; and notify the owner of the ranking with an urgent message, in response to the marked order failing to meet the delivery date.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Shrey Shrivastava, Jeffrey Willoughby, Shuxin Lin, Yuanchen Hu, Dinesh C. Verma
  • Patent number: 11567824
    Abstract: Restricting use of a selected input in recovery from system failures. A testing system obtains, based on failure of a system, an indication of one or more tasks to be performed. The testing system automatically determines whether a user is to perform one or more actions to alter execution of the one or more tasks. The automatically determining is based on an indication of whether a knowledge transfer score of the user meets at least one predefined criterion. Based on knowledge transfer score meeting the at least one predefined criterion, the one or more actions are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chanchal Saha, Kanayo George Okonji, Richard Burton Finch, Jeffrey Willoughby, Marc Henri Coq
  • Publication number: 20220188181
    Abstract: Restricting use of a selected input in recovery from system failures. A testing system obtains, based on failure of a system, an indication of one or more tasks to be performed. The testing system automatically determines whether a user is to perform one or more actions to alter execution of the one or more tasks. The automatically determining is based on an indication of whether a knowledge transfer score of the user meets at least one predefined criterion. Based on knowledge transfer score meeting the at least one predefined criterion, the one or more actions are performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Chanchal Saha, Kanayo George Okonji, Richard Burton Finch, Jeffrey Willoughby, Marc Henri Coq
  • Publication number: 20210240683
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include detecting an anomaly in a database of hardware, firmware, and software events. An exemplary method includes determining whether a previously addressed anomaly is a duplicate of the anomaly, addressing the anomaly according to a state of the previously addressed anomaly based on the previously addressed anomaly being a duplicate of the anomaly, and addressing the anomaly according to machine learning based on the previously addressed anomaly not being the duplicate of the anomaly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Edward C. McCain, Jeffrey Nettey, Barin Bhattacharya, Jeffrey Willoughby