Patents by Inventor Alan MacCormack

Alan MacCormack 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).

  • Computer-implemented methods and systems for measuring, estimating, and managing economic outcomes and technical debt in software systems and projects
    Patent number: 11836487
    Abstract: An interrelated set of tools and methods is disclosed for: (1) measuring the relationship between software source code attributes (such as code quality, design quality, test quality, and complexity metrics) and software economics outcome metrics (such as maintainability, agility, and cost) experienced by development and maintenance organizations, (2) using this information to project or estimate the level of technical debt in a software codebase, (3) using this information to estimate the financial value of efforts focused on improving the codebase (such as rewriting or refactoring), and (4) using this information to help manage a software development effort over its lifetime so as to improve software economics, business outcomes, and technical debt while doing so.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Silverthread, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Sturtevant, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Sunny Ahn, Sean Gilliland
  • COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING, ESTIMATING, AND MANAGING ECONOMIC OUTCOMES AND TECHNICAL DEBT IN SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND PROJECTS
    Publication number: 20210406005
    Abstract: An interrelated set of tools and methods is disclosed for: (1) measuring the relationship between software source code attributes (such as code quality, design quality, test quality, and complexity metrics) and software economics outcome metrics (such as maintainability, agility, and cost) experienced by development and maintenance organizations, (2) using this information to project or estimate the level of technical debt in a software codebase, (3) using this information to estimate the financial value of efforts focused on improving the codebase (such as rewriting or refactoring), and (4) using this information to help manage a software development effort over its lifetime so as to improve software economics, business outcomes, and technical debt while doing so.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel J. Sturtevant, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Sunny Ahn, Sean Gilliland
  • Computer-implemented methods and systems for measuring, estimating, and managing economic outcomes and technical debt in software systems and projects
    Patent number: 11126427
    Abstract: An interrelated set of tools and methods is disclosed for: (1) measuring the relationship between software source code attributes (such as code quality, design quality, test quality, and complexity metrics) and software economics outcome metrics (such as maintainability, agility, and cost) experienced by development and maintenance organizations, (2) using this information to project or estimate the level of technical debt in a software codebase, (3) using this information to estimate the financial value of efforts focused on improving the codebase (such as rewriting or refactoring), and (4) using this information to help manage a software development effort over its lifetime so as to improve software economics, business outcomes, and technical debt while doing so.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Silverthread, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Sturtevant, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Sunny Ahn, Sean Gilliland
  • COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING, ESTIMATING, AND MANAGING ECONOMIC OUTCOMES AND TECHNICAL DEBT IN SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND PROJECTS
    Publication number: 20170235569
    Abstract: An interrelated set of tools and methods is disclosed for: (1) measuring the relationship between software source code attributes (such as code quality, design quality, test quality, and complexity metrics) and software economics outcome metrics (such as maintainability, agility, and cost) experienced by development and maintenance organizations, (2) using this information to project or estimate the level of technical debt in a software codebase, (3) using this information to estimate the financial value of efforts focused on improving the codebase (such as rewriting or refactoring), and (4) using this information to help manage a software development effort over its lifetime so as to improve software economics, business outcomes, and technical debt while doing so.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Silverthread, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Sturtevant, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Sunny Ahn, Sean Gilliland