Patents by Inventor John Liddell Long

John Liddell Long 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: 8799432
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for managing a network. In response to an original request, a management station sends an augmented request to a remote server for information fulfilling the original request plus additional information available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael A. Scheetz, Roy Johnson, John Liddell Long
  • Patent number: 8745503
    Abstract: A system includes a server environment and a management station. The server environment includes hardware servers. At least some of the servers can be characterized by a hierarchy of partitions. The management station provides an administrative interface. The administrative interface provides a display that displays alternate views of a graphical representation of the server environment. Each of the views has graphical partition elements corresponding to at least some of the partitions nested with graphic server elements corresponding to at least some of the hardware servers. At least some of the graphical partition elements include links that, when activated, cause the graphical representation to switch to another of its views in which is highlighted a graphical partition element that was not highlighted in the previous view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bryan J. Jaquot, Kurt M. Olender, Roy Johnson, Michael Kingdom, John Liddell Long, Edgar Circenís
  • Patent number: 8266616
    Abstract: A method of computer system provisioning comprises defining a container as a plurality of computer system resources sufficient to run a workload, defining a workload as a set of processes executable on the container and monitored as a single entity, and modeling the container and/or the workload as a template that contains at least some of information for deploying the container and/or the workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bryan J. Jacquot, Paul D. Grubb, Kurt M. Olender, Roy Johnson, John Liddell Long, Michael Kingdom
  • Publication number: 20110055711
    Abstract: A system includes a server environment and a management station. The server environment includes hardware servers. At least some of the servers can be characterized by a hierarchy of partitions. The management station provides an administrative interface. The administrative interface provides a display that displays alternate views of a graphical representation of the server environment. Each of the views has graphical partition elements corresponding to at least some of the partitions nested with graphic server elements corresponding to at least some of the hardware servers. At least some of the graphical partition elements include links that, when activated, cause the graphical representation to switch to another of its views in which is highlighted a graphical partition element that was not highlighted in the previous view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Bryan J. Jaquot, Kurt M. Olender, Roy Johnson, Michael Kingdom, John Liddell Long, Edgar Circenis