Patents by Inventor Timothy P. Kane

Timothy P. Kane 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).

  • Process and system for comprehensive IT discovery without credentials
    Patent number: 9778953
    Abstract: A method and system for discovering dependencies, configurations and utilizations among IT resources are disclosed. A discovery team writes a prediscovery script without requesting credentials and sends it to a system administrator (SA) who already has necessary credentials to execute the prediscovery script. Then, the SA reviews the prediscovery script and executes the prediscovery script on a target server. While or after executing the prediscovery script, the target server generates a result of an execution of the prediscovery script and provides the result to an analysis system. The analysis system analyzes and parses the result and generates a user-friendly data (e.g., graph or spreadsheet) that represents the result. Then, the analysis system provides the user-friendly data to the discovery team. The analysis system does not require credentials and does not directly communicate with the target server except receiving the result of the executed prediscovery script from the target server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Louis E. Aiken, John K. Baker, Kamal Bhattacharya, Robert P. Boettcher, Murthy V. Devarakonda, Nikolai A. Joukov, Timothy P. Kane, Sr., Steve Lee, Matthew A. Markley, Birgit M. Pfitzmann, Michael Tacci, Norbert G. Vogl, Anthony G. D. Walker
  • PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR COMPREHENSIVE IT DISCOVERY WITHOUT CREDENTIALS
    Publication number: 20100319060
    Abstract: A method and system for discovering dependencies, configurations and utilizations among IT resources are disclosed. A discovery team writes a prediscovery script without requesting credentials and sends it to a system administrator (SA) who already has necessary credentials to execute the prediscovery script. Then, the SA reviews the prediscovery script and executes the prediscovery script on a target server. While or after executing the prediscovery script, the target server generates a result of an execution of the prediscovery script and provides the result to an analysis system. The analysis system analyzes and parses the result and generates a user-friendly data (e.g., graph or spreadsheet) that represents the result. Then, the analysis system provides the user-friendly data to the discovery team. The analysis system does not require credentials and does not directly communicate with the target server except receiving the result of the executed prediscovery script from the target server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Louis E. Aiken, John K. Baker, Kamal Bhattacharya, Robert P. Boettcher, Murthy V. Devarakonda, Nikolai A. Joukov, Timothy P. Kane, SR., Steve Lee, Matthew A. Markley, Birgit M. Pfitzmann, Michael Tacci, Norbert G. Vogl, Anthony G.D. Walker
  • Coil-less uprighting spring
    Patent number: 5302117
    Abstract: A coil-less wire-form orthodontic appliance for use with orthodontic brackets and archwire, installed in the mouth of a patient, for uprighting teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Dentaurum, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Kraut, Paul Blanchette, Timothy P. Kane