Patents by Inventor Alex LeFaive

Alex LeFaive 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).

  • Auto adjustment of baseline on configuration change
    Patent number: 8478569
    Abstract: A baseline adjusting technique allows automatically adjust the baselines of metrics affected by a configuration change a monitored system. If a configuration change is detected, a performance management system retrieves linkages between the changed configuration parameter and one or more metrics. The performance management system then adjusts the baselines of the metric using the baseline adjusting algorithm retrieved from the linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Scarpelli, Alex Lefaive, Derek Dang, Sridhar Sodem
  • Auto Adjustment of Baseline on Configuration Change
    Publication number: 20110238377
    Abstract: A baseline adjusting technique allows automatically adjust the baselines of metrics affected by a configuration change a monitored system. If a configuration change is detected, a performance management system retrieves linkages between the changed configuration parameter and one or more metrics. The performance management system then adjusts the baselines of the metric using the baseline adjusting algorithm retrieved from the linkage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: BMC SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Scarpelli, Alex Lefaive, Derek Dang, Sridhar Sodem
  • Automatic Determination of Dynamic Threshold for Accurate Detection of Abnormalities
    Publication number: 20110238376
    Abstract: An improved performance management technique allows automatic determination dynamic thresholds of a metric based on a baseline of the matching pattern. A pattern matching process is conducted against a set of baseline patterns to find the matching pattern. If a matching pattern is found, the baseline of the matching pattern is used as the dynamic threshold. A series of sanity checks are performed to reduce any false alarms. If the metric does not follow any pattern, a composite of baselines is selected as the dynamic threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Dang, Alex Lefaive, Joe Scarpelli, Sridhar Sodem
  • Method to Optimize Prediction of Threshold Violations Using Baselines
    Publication number: 20110161048
    Abstract: A baseline technique allows reducing the number of threshold violation predictions that need to be generated in a performance monitoring system. One or more baselines may be calculated based on long-term trends in a monitored metric. If the metric is within the baseline, then predictions regarding short-term trends in the metric may be omitted. If the metric is outside the baseline, then short-term trends may be analyzed to predict possible threshold violations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: BMC SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Sridhar Sodem, Derek Dang, Alex Lefaive, Joe Scarpelli
  • Interfacing external metrics into a performance management system
    Patent number: 6816898
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for network management is described. In one embodiment, a method comprises collecting performance data having accompanying meta data including information defining the performance management data and information indicating operations to be performed on the performance management data, and generating output data for display using collected performance management data according to the information indicating the operations to be performed on the performance management data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: ProactiveNet, Inc.
    Inventors: Joe Scarpelli, Sridhar Sodem, Atul Garg, Alex LeFaive, Rajesh Badhe