Patents by Inventor Bryan S. Daniel

Bryan S. Daniel 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).

  • Non-intrusive validation of software used by middleware providers
    Patent number: 8001534
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided to validate software compliance for a set of technologies. A request is received to validate software. Responsive to receiving the request to validate the software, a selection of a number of technologies is received from the set of technologies for which the software is to be validated. Responsive to receiving the select of the number of technologies, a set of traces is exercised of the software for the selected technologies. The exercise of the set of traces continues until stopped. Responsive to tracing stopping, a set of trace log files of the set of traces is created and sent to a validation server. The validation server then analyzes the submitted trace log files and generates a report detailing what technologies were successfully used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan S. Daniel, Doug E. Phillips
  • Non-intrusive validation of software used by middleware providers
    Publication number: 20080091673
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided to validate software compliance for a set of technologies. A request is received to validate software. Responsive to receiving the request to validate the software, a selection of a number of technologies is received from the set of technologies for which the software is to be validated. Responsive to receiving the select of the number of technologies, a set of traces is exercised of the software for the selected technologies. The exercise of the set of traces continues until stopped. Responsive to tracing stopping, a set of trace log files of the set of traces is created and sent to a validation server. The validation server then analyzes the submitted trace log files and generates a report detailing what technologies were successfully used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Bryan S. Daniel, Doug E. Phillips