Patents by Inventor Bryan E. Aupperle

Bryan E. Aupperle 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: 8544094
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to distributed computing for large data sets on clusters of computers and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for detecting and correcting malicious nodes in a cloud computing environment (e.g., MapReduce computing). In one embodiment of the invention, a computer-implemented method for detecting and correcting malicious nodes in a cloud computing environment can include selecting a task to dispatch to a first worker node, setting a suspicion index threshold for the selected task, determining a suspicion index for the selected task, comparing the suspicion index to the suspicion index threshold and receiving a result from a first worker node. The method further can include applying a recovery action when the suspicion index exceeds the selected suspicion index threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan E. Aupperle, David L. Kaminsky
  • Patent number: 8397293
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to distributed computing for large data sets on clusters of computers and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for detecting and correcting malicious nodes in a cloud computing environment (e.g., MapReduce computing). In one embodiment of the invention, a computer-implemented method for detecting and correcting malicious nodes in a cloud computing environment can include selecting a task to dispatch to a first worker node, setting a suspicion index threshold for the selected task, determining a suspicion index for the selected task, comparing the suspicion index to the suspicion index threshold and receiving a result from a first worker node. The method further can include applying a recovery action when the suspicion index exceeds the selected suspicion index threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan E. Aupperle, David L. Kaminsky
  • Publication number: 20120159627
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to distributed computing for large data sets on clusters of computers and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for detecting and correcting malicious nodes in a cloud computing environment (e.g., MapReduce computing). In one embodiment of the invention, a computer-implemented method for detecting and correcting malicious nodes in a cloud computing environment can include selecting a task to dispatch to a first worker node, setting a suspicion index threshold for the selected task, determining a suspicion index for the selected task, comparing the suspicion index to the suspicion index threshold and receiving a result from a first worker node. The method further can include applying a recovery action when the suspicion index exceeds the selected suspicion index threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan E. Aupperle, David L. Kaminsky
  • Patent number: 8191010
    Abstract: The present invention provides enhanced dropdown selection lists and combination boxes. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: providing a graphical user interface (GUI) control that displays a dropdown list when actuated, and displaying indicia in the GUI control indicating a number of entries in the dropdown list, wherein a user can visually determine from the indicia the number of entries in the dropdown list prior to display of the dropdown list. A method in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention includes: providing a GUI control having an entry field; and displaying indicia in the GUI control indicating whether the entry field of the GUI control is writable, wherein a user can visually determine from the indicia whether the entry field of the GUI control is writable before placing a cursor in the entry field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas R. Haynes, Bryan E. Aupperle, Gabriel A. Cohen, Jonathan C. Gellin
  • Patent number: 8006098
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business whereby legacy host application/system access is integrated with single sign-on in a modern distributed computing environment. A security token used for signing on to the modern computing environment is leveraged, and is mapped to user credentials for the legacy host environment. These user credentials are programmatically inserted into a legacy host data stream, thereby giving the end user the look and feel of seamless access to all applications/systems, including not only modern computing applications/systems but also those residing on (or accessible through) legacy hosts. In addition to providing users with the advantages of single sign-on, the disclosed techniques enable limiting the number of user identifiers and passwords an enterprise has to manage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan E. Aupperle, Julie H. King, Sidhar R. Muppidi
  • Publication number: 20110162069
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to distributed computing for large data sets on clusters of computers and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for detecting and correcting malicious nodes in a cloud computing environment (e.g., MapReduce computing). In one embodiment of the invention, a computer-implemented method for detecting and correcting malicious nodes in a cloud computing environment can include selecting a task to dispatch to a first worker node, setting a suspicion index threshold for the selected task, determining a suspicion index for the selected task, comparing the suspicion index to the suspicion index threshold and receiving a result from a first worker node. The method further can include applying a recovery action when the suspicion index exceeds the selected suspicion index threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bryan E. Aupperle, David L. Kaminsky
  • Publication number: 20090077486
    Abstract: The present invention provides enhanced dropdown selection lists and combination boxes. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: providing a graphical user interface (GUI) control that displays a dropdown list when actuated, and displaying indicia in the GUI control indicating a number of entries in the dropdown list, wherein a user can visually determine from the indicia the number of entries in the dropdown list prior to display of the dropdown list. A method in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention includes: providing a GUI control having an entry field; and displaying indicia in the GUI control indicating whether the entry field of the GUI control is writable, wherein a user can visually determine from the indicia whether the entry field of the GUI control is writable before placing a cursor in the entry field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas R. Haynes, Bryan E. Aupperle, Gabriel A. Cohen, Jonathan C. Gellin
  • Patent number: 7499879
    Abstract: A cooperative e-business complex. The cooperative e-business complex can include one or more electronically accessible e-business complex management services configured to handle e-business processing in the e-business complex on behalf of electronically associated virtual store operators, vendors, business partners and professional services providers. A virtual management office can be included which is configured to coordinate e-business transactions between the associated virtual store operators, the on-line shoppers, the vendors, the business partners, and the professional services providers in the e-business complex. Finally, one or more e-business complex management services requesters can be configured to remotely invoke selected ones of the electronically accessible e-business complex management services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan E. Aupperle, Sajan K. Sankaran, Spencer H Shepard, IV, Yih-Shin Tan
  • Publication number: 20080263365
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business whereby legacy host application/system access is integrated with single sign-on in a modern distributed computing environment. A security token used for signing on to the modern computing environment is leveraged, and is mapped to user credentials for the legacy host environment. These user credentials are programmatically inserted into a legacy host data stream, thereby giving the end user the look and feel of seamless access to all applications/systems, including not only modern computing applications/systems but also those residing on (or accessible through) legacy hosts. In addition to providing users with the advantages of single sign-on, the disclosed techniques enable limiting the number of user identifiers and passwords an enterprise has to manage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bryan E. Aupperle, Julie H. King, Sridhar R. Muppidi
  • Patent number: 7426642
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business whereby legacy host application/system access is integrated with single sign-on in a modem distributed computing environment. A security token used for signing on to the modem computing environment is leveraged, and is mapped to user credentials for the legacy host environment. These user credentials are programmatically inserted into a legacy host data stream, thereby giving the end user the look and feel of seamless access to all applications/systems, including not only modem computing applications/systems but also those residing on (or accessible through) legacy hosts. In addition to providing users with the advantages of single sign-on, the disclosed techniques enable limiting the number of user identifiers and passwords an enterprise has to manage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan E. Aupperle, Julie H. King, Sridhar R. Muppidi
  • Patent number: 7254526
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for searching a database of web site functional characteristics to identify web sites that are compatible with designated functions are provided. With the apparatus and method, a database of functional characteristics is compiled and a search interface is provided. The database may be compiled in an automatic, manual, or semiautomatic manner by, for example, retrieving web site content with various functions of a web browser disabled and analyzing the resultant output through the web browser. With the search interface, a user may enter designations of the functional characteristics that the user is either interested in having or not having in the resultant list of web sites. Based on the user's designation of functional characteristics, the search engine associated with the search interface searches the database of web sites and identifies the web site entries in the database that are compatible with the designated functional characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan E. Aupperle, Marcia L. Peters
  • Patent number: 7099873
    Abstract: An intermediate content transcoder. An intermediate content transcoder can include a communicative receiver configured to receive master content while in transit from a content source to at least one content sink in a content distribution network, and a communicative transmitter configured to transmit transcoded content to one or more of the content sinks. A set of content transformations also can be provided. Furthermore, the intermediate content transcoder can include a set of conditions for selecting individual ones of the content transformations to be applied to master content received through the communicative receiver. Finally, the intermediate content transcoder can include a transcoder configured to apply the selected individual ones of the content transformations to the master content. The application of the content transformations can produce transcoded content. The communicative transmitter, in turn, can forward the produced transcoded content to one or more of the content sinks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rajesh S. Agarwalla, Bryan E. Aupperle, Thirumale Niranjan, Srikanth Ramamurthy, Marcia L. Stockton
  • Publication number: 20040098595
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business whereby legacy host application/system access is integrated with single sign-on in a modem distributed computing environment. A security token used for signing on to the modem computing environment is leveraged, and is mapped to user credentials for the legacy host environment. These user credentials are programmatically inserted into a legacy host data stream, thereby giving the end user the look and feel of seamless access to all applications/systems, including not only modem computing applications/systems but also those residing on (or accessible through) legacy hosts. In addition to providing users with the advantages of single sign-on, the disclosed techniques enable limiting the number of user identifiers and passwords an enterprise has to manage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan E. Aupperle, Julie H. King, Sridhar R. Muppidi
  • Publication number: 20030225723
    Abstract: An intermediate content transcoder. An intermediate content transcoder can include a communicative receiver configured to receive master content while in transit from a content source to at least one content sink in a content distribution network, and a communicative transmitter configured to transmit transcoded content to one or more of the content sinks. A set of content transformations also can be provided. Furthermore, the intermediate content transcoder can include a set of conditions for selecting individual ones of the content transformations to be applied to master content received through the communicative receiver. Finally, the intermediate content transcoder can include a transcoder configured to apply the selected individual ones of the content transformations to the master content. The application of the content transformations can produce transcoded content. The communicative transmitter, in turn, can forward the produced transcoded content to one or more of the content sinks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rajesh S. Agarwalla, Bryan E. Aupperle, Thirumale Niranjan, Srikanth Ramamurthy, Marcia L. Stockton
  • Publication number: 20030144915
    Abstract: A cooperative e-business complex. The cooperative e-business complex can include one or more electronically accessible e-business complex management services configured to handle e-business processing in the e-business complex on behalf of electronically associated virtual store operators, vendors, business partners and professional services providers. A virtual management office can be included which is configured to coordinate e-business transactions between the associated virtual store operators, the on-line shoppers, the vendors, the business partners, and the professional services providers in the e-business complex. Finally, one or more e-business complex management services requesters can be configured to remotely invoke selected ones of the electronically accessible e-business complex management services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan E. Aupperle, Sajan K. Sankaran, Spencer H. Shepard, Yih-Shin Tan
  • Publication number: 20030051027
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for searching a database of web site functional characteristics to identify web sites that are compatible with designated functions are provided. With the apparatus and method, a database of functional characteristics is compiled and a search interface is provided. The database may be compiled in an automatic, manual, or semiautomatic manner by, for example, retrieving web site content with various functions of a web browser disabled and analyzing the resultant output through the web browser. With the search interface, a user may enter designations of the functional characteristics that the user is either interested in having or not having in the resultant list of web sites. Based on the user's designation of functional characteristics, the search engine associated with the search interface searches the database of web sites and identifies the web site entries in the database that are compatible with the designated functional characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan E. Aupperle, Marcia L. Peters
  • Publication number: 20020111921
    Abstract: A digital certificate stored on a smart card is used to facilitate the encoding of a key printed as a bar-code (or other readable indicia) on an item to be delivered to the purchaser or the purchaser's designee. When the purchaser or purchaser's designee attempts to receive the item, the smart card must be presented for correlation with the readable indicia associated with the item as a result of the purchase. The same digital certificate from the smart card must be used to validate the encrypted information associated with the item, so that only the person holding the smart card used at the time of purchase can obtain the item. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is used in connection with the purchase of tickets redeemable for an event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventor: Bryan E. Aupperle
  • Publication number: 20020111837
    Abstract: A digital certificate generated by a seller's server is stored on a smart card of a purchaser. The digital certificate is used to facilitate the encoding of a key printed as a bar-code (or other readable indicia) on an item to be delivered to the purchaser or the purchaser's designee. When the purchaser or purchaser's designee attempts to receive the item, the smart card must be presented for correlation with the readable indicia associated with the item as a result of the purchase. The same digital certificate from the smart card must be used to validate the encrypted information associated with the item, so that only the person holding the smart card used at the time of purchase can obtain the item. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is used in connection with the purchase of tickets redeemable for an event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventor: Bryan E. Aupperle