Patents by Inventor John Deuel

John Deuel 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).

  • Method and system for reducing false alarms in network fault management systems
    Patent number: 7318178
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for reducing the number of false alarms in fault correlation software used to detect and diagnose faults in computer networks and similar systems. The fault correlation software includes rules that monitor a number of indicators that, if occurring together over a window of time, are known to cause or reflect the occurrence of a fault. The method involves monitoring the transition of these indicators from one state to another over the time window and determining the extent of the correlation of the transitions of the indicators. The determination that indicators monitored by a rule do not correlate closely in their transitions is used to reduce the likelihood of the rule finding correlation of the indicators as a whole. This in turn reduces the number of false alarms which the rule-based system might otherwise have transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Louis A. Steinberg, Evan R. Wetstone, Arkadiy Belousov, John Deuel
  • Method and system for reducing false alarms in network fault management systems
    Publication number: 20060069956
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for reducing the number of false alarms in fault correlation software used to detect and diagnose faults in computer networks and similar systems. The fault correlation software includes rules that monitor a number of indicators that, if occurring together over a window of time, are known to cause or reflect the occurrence of a fault. The method involves monitoring the transition of these indicators from one state to another over the time window and determining the extent of the correlation of the transitions of the indicators. The determination that indicators monitored by a rule do not correlate closely in their transitions is used to reduce the likelihood of the rule finding correlation of the indicators as a whole. This in turn reduces the number of false alarms which the rule-based system might otherwise have transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventors: Louis Steinberg, Evan Wetstone, Arkadiy Belousov, John Deuel
  • Method and system for reducing false alarms in network fault management systems
    Patent number: 6966015
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for reducing the number of false alarms in fault correlation software used to detect and diagnose faults in computer networks and similar systems. The fault correlation software includes rules that monitor a number of indicators that, if occurring together over a window of time, are known to cause or reflect the occurrence of a fault. The method involves monitoring the transition of these indicators from one state to another over the time window and determining the extent of the correlation of the transitions of the indicators. The determination that indicators monitored by a rule do not correlate closely in their transitions is used to reduce the likelihood of the rule finding correlation of the indicators as a whole. This in turn reduces the number of false alarms which the rule-based system might otherwise have transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Micromuse, Ltd.
    Inventors: Louis A. Steinberg, Evan R. Wetstone, Arkadiy Belousov, John Deuel
  • Method and system for reducing false alarms in network fault management systems
    Publication number: 20020170002
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for reducing the number of false alarms in fault correlation software used to detect and diagnose faults in computer networks and similar systems. The fault correlation software includes rules that monitor a number of indicators that, if occurring together over a window of time, are known to cause or reflect the occurrence of a fault. The method involves monitoring the transition of these indicators from one state to another over the time window and determining the extent of the correlation of the transitions of the indicators. The determination that indicators monitored by a rule do not correlate closely in their transitions is used to reduce the likelihood of the rule finding correlation of the indicators as a whole. This in turn reduces the number of false alarms which the rule-based system might otherwise have transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Inventors: Louis A. Steinberg, Evan R. Wetstone, Arkadiy Belousov, John Deuel