Patents by Inventor David S. Crocco

David S. Crocco 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).

  • Methods and systems for collecting, analyzing, and reporting software reliability and availability
    Patent number: 7185231
    Abstract: Disclosed is a software application reliability and availability tracking and reporting mechanism that collects event data from target computers, analyzes the data, and produces reliability and availability reports. A network administrator specifies target computers for which event data are collected. The collected event data along with a reliability model are provided to a reliability and availability analysis engine. Output from the engine includes reliability and availability data expressed as durations of time spent in each state and as associations with the events. The reliability and availability data are fed to a report generator which computes reliability and availability metrics. The metrics are used to generate reports that can be interpreted by the network administrator without the need for specialized data analysis skills.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph P. Mullally, Mario R. Garzia, David S. Crocco, Qingbo Zhao
  • Methods and systems for collecting, analyzing, and reporting software reliability and availability
    Publication number: 20040230872
    Abstract: Disclosed is a software application reliability and availability tracking and reporting mechanism that collects event data from target computers, analyzes the data, and produces reliability and availability reports. A network administrator specifies target computers for which event data are collected. The collected event data along with a reliability model are provided to a reliability and availability analysis engine. Output from the engine includes reliability and availability data expressed as durations of time spent in each state and as associations with the events. The reliability and availability data are fed to a report generator which computes reliability and availability metrics. The metrics are used to generate reports that can be interpreted by the network administrator without the need for specialized data analysis skills.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph P. Mullally, Mario R. Garzia, David S. Crocco, Qingbo Zhao