Patents by Inventor Sharon M. Chisholm

Sharon M. Chisholm 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).

  • Generic fault management method and system
    Patent number: 6697970
    Abstract: A generic fault management system and method for maintaining a list of all active alarms on a network generated by managed resources (e.g. network elements) in an SNMP environment. Active alarm tables are stored and maintained in management information bases (MIBs) associated with each of the managed resources and by a distributed management component (such as by an Element Management System (EMS)-MIB and/or a Network Management Station (NMS)-Information Store (IS)). The managed resources of the network experiencing the alarms do not need to conform to a particular alarm content or behaviour. The network can be supported on any SNMP system including both on the managed resources experiencing the alarms, and any distributed management systems monitoring the managed resources. The active alarm tables of the present invention can store any alarm that can be defined using Structure of Management Information (SMI) syntax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventor: Sharon M. Chisholm