Patents by Inventor David Paul Alt

David Paul Alt 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).

  • Identifying a configuration for an application in a production environment
    Patent number: 7756973
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a computer-implemented method, computer system and computer program product provide a configuration recommendation. Request-processing performance data of an application is received. The request-processing performance data is collected by an application monitor during an execution of the application on a source hardware system. One or more request-processing performance measurements are determined based on the request-processing performance data. One or more target objectives of the application are received. An analytic engine is invoked to provide a configuration recommendation of a target hardware system on which to execute the application based on one or more request-processing performance measurements and one or more target objectives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Paul Alt, Sarah R. Plantenberg, Sandra Lee Tipton