Patents by Inventor Brad Byer Topol

Brad Byer Topol 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: 8126943
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for autonomically configuring a virtual log. In accordance with the present invention, events flowing into the virtual log can be heuristically processed to determine if any events have been lost. When an event is considered to have been lost, the size of the log associated with the event can be increased. Also, the interval in which the virtual log interacts with the associated log can be decreased so as to ensure that the events will not continue to be lost. When a period of time has elapsed during which no events are heuristically determined to have been lost, either or both of the interval and associated log can be adjusted so as to increase the interval and decrease the size of the associated log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Gary Dudley, Neeraj Joshi, David M. Ogle, Balan Subramanian, Brad Byer Topol
  • Patent number: 7788539
    Abstract: A method to debug a user command that failed to execute on a computing device may include forming a syntactically valid built-up command. The method may also include comparing the user command to the built-up command and analyzing the user command holistically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Belinda Chang, John Raithel Hind, Robert Edward Moore, Brad Byer Topol, Jie Xing
  • Publication number: 20080126324
    Abstract: A method to debug a user command that failed to execute on a computing device may include forming a syntactically valid built-up command. The method may also include comparing the user command to the built-up command and analyzing the user command holistically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Belinda Chang, John Raithel Hind, Robert Edward Moore, Brad Byer Topol, Jie Xing
  • Patent number: 7313601
    Abstract: The present invention describes an adaptive control system being preferably part of the portal, which provides a sophisticated method for a partial sequential and parallel invocation of portlets depending on the available resources and system utilization. Based on defined time mark for rendering content (maximum invocation time for displaying a portal page or a portal-wide portlets rending time mark), a number of available threads, and estimated invocation time for each portlet the inventive method determines and invokes a first group of portlets (80,90) providing the maximum number of portlets to be invoked sequentially without exceeding defined time mark for rending content, and then all remaining portlets (80,90) are to be invoked parallel to that first group of portlets. The invention guarantees reasonable response times and high scalability and performance. (FIG. 9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Fischer, Stephan Hesmer, Thomas Schaeck, Brad Byer Topol, Dirk Koehler, Gerhard Stark
  • Publication number: 20030188163
    Abstract: The present invention describes an adaptive control system being preferably part of the portal, which provides a sophisticated method for a partial sequential and parallel invocation of portlets depending on the available resources and system utilization. Based on defined time mark for rendering content (maximum invocation time for displaying a portal page or a portal-wide portlet rendering time mark), a number of available threads, and estimated invocation time for each portlet the inventive method determines and invokes a first group of portlets (80,90) providing the maximum number of portlets to be invoked sequentially without exceeding defined time mark for rendering content, and then all remaining portlets (80,90) are to be invoked parallel to that first group of portlets. The invention guarantees reasonable response times and high scalability and performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Fischer, Stephan Hesmer, Thomas Schaeck, Brad Byer Topol, Dirk Koehler, Gerhard Stark