Patents by Inventor Alan David Seid

Alan David Seid 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: 8494931
    Abstract: A management application implemented in a computational device maintains priorities corresponding to a plurality of resources coupled to the computational device. Indications for actions to be performed corresponding to occurrences of events are stored to a calendar, wherein the calendar is configurable by a user. A selected indication for an action to be performed is stored to the calendar. In response to an occurrence of an event associated with a selected resource, a priority of the selected resource is determined. The action is performed, based on at least the determined priority of the selected resource and the selected indication for the action stored in the calendar, wherein different actions are performed in response to occurrences of a selected event at different times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan Calacaterra, Gregory Richard Hintermeister, David Bruce Lection, Alan David Seid
  • Publication number: 20120011035
    Abstract: A management application implemented in a computational device maintains priorities corresponding to a plurality of resources coupled to the computational device. Indications for actions to be performed corresponding to occurrences of events are stored to a calendar, wherein the calendar is configurable by a user. A selected indication for an action to be performed is stored to the calendar. In response to an occurrence of an event associated with a selected resource, a priority of the selected resource is determined. The action is performed, based on at least the determined priority of the selected resource and the selected indication for the action stored in the calendar, wherein different actions are performed in response to occurrences of a selected event at different times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan Calcaterra, Gregory Richard Hintermeister, David Bruce Lection, Alan David Seid
  • Patent number: 7756048
    Abstract: A method in a data processing system for monitoring for errors on a network. Responsive to detecting a change in a state of the network, determine whether the change in state is a loss of a communications link to a remote data processing system. If the change in state is a loss of the communications link, determine whether the communications link was established for at least a first period of time to be considered an acceptable connection to the remote data processing system; and create a new serviceable event, if a second period of time passes without reestablishing the communications link to the selected data processing system. Repeat occurrences of identical outages are tracked and multiple detected instances of an outage for different partitions are counted as a single failure in the examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: George Henry Ahrens, Jr., Patrick J. Callaghan, Stephen V. Feustel, Robert Keith Overton, Richard Jeffrey Planutis, Alan David Seid
  • Publication number: 20080162985
    Abstract: A method in a data processing system for monitoring for errors on a network. Responsive to detecting a change in a state of the network, determine whether the change in state is a loss of a communications link to a remote data processing system. If the change in state is a loss of the communications link, determine whether the communications link was established for at least a first period of time to be considered an acceptable connection to the remote data processing system; and create a new serviceable event, if a second period of time passes without reestablishing the communications link to the selected data processing system. Repeat occurrences of identical outages are tracked and multiple detected instances of an outage for different partitions are counted as a single failure in the examples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: George Henry Ahrens, Patrick J. Callaghan, Stephen V. Feustel, Robert Keith Overton, Richard Jeffrey Planutis, Alan David Seid
  • Patent number: 7339885
    Abstract: A method in a data processing system for monitoring for errors on a network. Responsive to detecting a change in a state of the network, determine whether the change in state is a loss of a communications link to a remote data processing system. If the change in state is a loss of the communications link, determine whether the communications link was established for at least a first period of time to be considered an acceptable connection to the remote data processing system; and create a new serviceable event, if a second period of time passes without reestablishing the communications link to the selected data processing system. Repeat occurrences of identical outages are tracked and multiple detected instances of an outage for different partitions are counted as a single failure in the examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: George Henry Ahrens, Jr., Patrick J. Callaghan, Stephen V. Feustel, Robert Keith Overton, Richard Jeffrey Planutis, Alan David Seid
  • Publication number: 20040246893
    Abstract: A method in a data processing system for monitoring for errors on a network. Responsive to detecting a change in a state of the network, determine whether the change in state is a loss of a communications link to a remote data processing system. If the change in state is a loss of the communications link, determine whether the communications link was established for at least a first period of time to be considered an acceptable connection to the remote data processing system; and create a new serviceable event, if a second period of time passes without reestablishing the communications link to the selected data processing system. Repeat occurrences of identical outages are tracked and multiple detected instances of an outage for different partitions are counted as a single failure in the examples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: George Henry Ahrens, Patrick J. Callaghan, Stephen V. Feustel, Robert Keith Overton, Richard Jeffrey Planutis, Alan David Seid