Patents by Inventor Desmond Fitzpatrick

Desmond Fitzpatrick 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).

  • TESTING IN A DISASTER RECOVERY COMPUTER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20220188218
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a computer-implemented method includes configuring a disaster recovery computer system as a test environment of a mainframe computer system as a mirror image of a production environment, where the disaster recovery computer system is a backup of a primary production computer system. Test cases are executed in the test environment of the disaster recovery computer system. A stress and load impacts can be monitored on a plurality of computer system resources of the disaster recovery computer system based on execution of the test cases. The test environment can be disabled, and the disaster recovery computer system can be reconfigured as a production system based on a failure of the primary production computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Robert M. Abrams, Marc Henri Coq, Desmond Fitzpatrick, Eugene Sale
  • Testing in a disaster recovery computer system
    Patent number: 11341032
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a computer-implemented method includes configuring a disaster recovery computer system as a test environment of a mainframe computer system as a mirror image of a production environment, where the disaster recovery computer system is a backup of a primary production computer system. Test cases are executed in the test environment of the disaster recovery computer system. A stress and load impacts can be monitored on a plurality of computer system resources of the disaster recovery computer system based on execution of the test cases. The test environment can be disabled, and the disaster recovery computer system can be reconfigured as a production system based on a failure of the primary production computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert M. Abrams, Marc Henri Coq, Desmond Fitzpatrick, Eugene Sale