Patents by Inventor Doyle J. McCoy

Doyle J. McCoy 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: 10678711
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for memory protection at a level of granularity above a “page” level (e.g., enhancing the protection provided by a memory key-based system). The approach further provides such a level of protection at a process or task level by associating the physical page key with a virtual key that corresponds to a particular process/task. When access to the data is requested for a particular process or task, it is determined if a protection bit for the data is set, and if the physical page keys and/or virtual keys submitted pursuant to the request match that previously stored for the data and process/task. If so, access to the data is allowed for the particular process/task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Doyle J. McCoy
  • Patent number: 10671468
    Abstract: An approach is provided for collecting data for diagnosing a failure of a computer hardware device. An address translation table of a central processing unit (CPU) of the device is collected. A format of call stack frames of an operating system (OS) image of the device is retrieved. The call stack frames are retrieved and outputted to a computer file. A second address translation table of the CPU is collected. A second format of second call stack frames is retrieved. The OS image and the second OS image are of different types but have common anchor structures. The format of the call stack frames is different from the second format. Based on the second address translation table and the second format, the second call stack frames are retrieved and outputted to the computer file. A diagnosis of the failure is received based on the computer file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Doyle J. McCoy
  • Patent number: 10606874
    Abstract: An approach for adjusting ranked search results based on user data is provided. An approach includes: receiving a search query from a search user; generating a ranked result set based on the search query; generating an adjusted ranked result set by adjusting the ranked result set based on a skill rating of the search user; and providing the adjusted ranked result set to the search user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam D. Braham, Doyle J. McCoy, Jeffrey A. Schmidt, Gregory J. Watts
  • Publication number: 20190179775
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for memory protection at a level of granularity above a “page” level (e.g., enhancing the protection provided by a memory key-based system). The approach further provides such a level of protection at a process or task level by associating the physical page key with a virtual key that corresponds to a particular process/task. When access to the data is requested for a particular process or task, it is determined if a protection bit for the data is set, and if the physical page keys and/or virtual keys submitted pursuant to the request match that previously stored for the data and process/task. If so, access to the data is allowed for the particular process/task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventor: Doyle J. McCoy
  • Patent number: 10255204
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for memory protection at a level of granularity above a “page” level (e.g., enhancing the protection provided by a memory key-based system). The approach further provides such a level of protection at a process or task level by associating the physical page key with a virtual key that corresponds to a particular process/task. When access to the data is requested for a particular process or task, it is determined if a protection bit for the data is set, and if the physical page keys and/or virtual keys submitted pursuant to the request match that previously stored for the data and process/task. If so, access to the data is allowed for the particular process/task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Doyle J. McCoy
  • Patent number: 10169337
    Abstract: Converting technical data from field oriented electronic data sources into natural language form is disclosed. An approach includes obtaining document data from an input document, wherein the document data is in a non-natural language form. The approach includes determining a data type of the document data from one of a plurality of data types defined in a detection and conversion database. The approach includes translating the document data to a natural language form based on the determined data type. The approach additionally includes outputting the translated document data in natural language form to an output data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John J. Bird, Doyle J. McCoy
  • Publication number: 20180293127
    Abstract: An approach is provided for collecting data for diagnosing a failure of a computer hardware device. An address translation table of a central processing unit (CPU) of the device is collected. A format of call stack frames of an operating system (OS) image of the device is retrieved. The call stack frames are retrieved and outputted to a computer file. A second address translation table of the CPU is collected. A second format of second call stack frames is retrieved. The OS image and the second OS image are of different types but have common anchor structures. The format of the call stack frames is different from the second format. Based on the second address translation table and the second format, the second call stack frames are retrieved and outputted to the computer file. A diagnosis of the failure is received based on the computer file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventor: Doyle J. McCoy
  • Patent number: 10037511
    Abstract: An approach to control workflow so that a relatively high priority work item can sometimes be automatically controlled by software to interrupt work being performed, by one or more resource unit(s), on a relatively lower priority work item. The analysis for deciding whether or not an interruption occurs depends upon interruptibility scalars (that is, interruptibility quotients and/or factors) and interruptibility threshold(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adam D. Braham, Dennis D. Koski, Doyle J. McCoy, Todd A. Mueller, Jeffrey A. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10013298
    Abstract: An approach is provided for collecting data for diagnosing a failure of a computer hardware device. After an indication of the failure of the computer hardware device that results in a full system crash is received, an address translation table of a central processing unit (CPU) of the computer hardware device is collected. A format of call stack frames of an operating system (OS) image of the computer hardware device is retrieved. Based on the collected address translation table and the retrieved format of the call stack frames, the call stack frames are retrieved and output to a computer file. Retrieving the call stack frames is performed by a service processor external to system processing units running OS images via a hypervisor of the computer hardware device. The service processor does not require an ambulance logical partition managed by the hypervisor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Doyle J. McCoy
  • Patent number: 9990406
    Abstract: An approach for identifying missing content is provided. An approach includes: receiving a search string; determining a skill rating associated with a searcher that generated the search string; and searching a database using the search string. The approach also includes: updating at least one of a first score associated with the search string and a second score associated with the database based on the skill rating; and generating an alert based on one of the first score exceeding a first threshold and the second score exceeding a second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam D. Braham, Doyle J. McCoy, Jeffrey A. Schmidt, Gregory J. Watts
  • Publication number: 20180095903
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for memory protection at a level of granularity above a “page” level (e.g., enhancing the protection provided by a memory key-based system). The approach further provides such a level of protection at a process or task level by associating the physical page key with a virtual key that corresponds to a particular process/task. When access to the data is requested for a particular process or task, it is determined if a protection bit for the data is set, and if the physical page keys and/or virtual keys submitted pursuant to the request match that previously stored for the data and process/task. If so, access to the data is allowed for the particular process/task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventor: Doyle J. McCoy
  • Publication number: 20180075025
    Abstract: Converting technical data from field oriented electronic data sources into natural language form is disclosed. An approach includes obtaining document data from an input document, wherein the document data is in a non-natural language form. The approach includes determining a data type of the document data from one of a plurality of data types defined in a detection and conversion database. The approach includes translating the document data to a natural language form based on the determined data type. The approach additionally includes outputting the translated document data in natural language form to an output data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: John J. BIRD, Doyle J. MCCOY
  • Patent number: 9858207
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for memory protection at a level of granularity above a “page” level (e.g., enhancing the protection provided by a memory key-based system). The approach further provides such a level of protection at a process or task level by associating the physical page key with a virtual key that corresponds to a particular process/task. When access to the data is requested for a particular process or task, it is determined if a protection bit for the data is set, and if the physical page keys and/or virtual keys submitted pursuant to the request match that previously stored for the data and process/task. If so, access to the data is allowed for the particular process/task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Doyle J. McCoy
  • Patent number: 9858270
    Abstract: Converting technical data from field oriented electronic data sources into natural language form is disclosed. An approach includes obtaining document data from an input document, wherein the document data is in a non-natural language form. The approach includes determining a data type of the document data from one of a plurality of data types defined in a detection and conversion database. The approach includes translating the document data to a natural language form based on the determined data type. The approach additionally includes outputting the translated document data in natural language form to an output data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John J. Bird, Doyle J. McCoy
  • Patent number: 9740694
    Abstract: An approach for identifying missing content is provided. An approach includes: receiving a search string; determining a skill rating associated with a searcher that generated the search string; and searching a database using the search string. The approach also includes: updating at least one of a first score associated with the search string and a second score associated with the database based on the skill rating; and generating an alert based on one of the first score exceeding a first threshold and the second score exceeding a second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam D. Braham, Doyle J. McCoy, Jeffrey A. Schmidt, Gregory J. Watts
  • Publication number: 20170147566
    Abstract: Converting technical data from field oriented electronic data sources into natural language form is disclosed. An approach includes obtaining document data from an input document, wherein the document data is in a non-natural language form. The approach includes determining a data type of the document data from one of a plurality of data types defined in a detection and conversion database. The approach includes translating the document data to a natural language form based on the determined data type. The approach additionally includes outputting the translated document data in natural language form to an output data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: John J. BIRD, Doyle J. MCCOY
  • Publication number: 20170124183
    Abstract: An approach for adjusting ranked search results based on user data is provided. An approach includes: receiving a search query from a search user; generating a ranked result set based on the search query; generating an adjusted ranked result set by adjusting the ranked result set based on a skill rating of the search user; and providing the adjusted ranked result set to the search user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Adam D. BRAHAM, Doyle J. MCCOY, Jeffrey A. SCHMIDT, Gregory J. WATTS
  • Publication number: 20170116192
    Abstract: An approach for identifying missing content is provided. An approach includes: receiving a search string; determining a skill rating associated with a searcher that generated the search string; and searching a database using the search string. The approach also includes: updating at least one of a first score associated with the search string and a second score associated with the database based on the skill rating; and generating an alert based on one of the first score exceeding a first threshold and the second score exceeding a second threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Adam D. BRAHAM, Doyle J. MCCOY, Jeffrey A. SCHMIDT, Gregory J. WATTS
  • Publication number: 20170116199
    Abstract: An approach for identifying missing content is provided. An approach includes: receiving a search string; determining a skill rating associated with a searcher that generated the search string; and searching a database using the search string. The approach also includes: updating at least one of a first score associated with the search string and a second score associated with the database based on the skill rating; and generating an alert based on one of the first score exceeding a first threshold and the second score exceeding a second threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Adam D. BRAHAM, Doyle J. MCCOY, Jeffrey A. SCHMIDT, Gregory J. WATTS
  • Patent number: 9633010
    Abstract: Converting technical data from field oriented electronic data sources into natural language form is disclosed. An approach includes obtaining document data from an input document, wherein the document data is in a non-natural language form. The approach includes determining a data type of the document data from one of a plurality of data types defined in a detection and conversion database. The approach includes translating the document data to a natural language form based on the determined data type. The approach additionally includes outputting the translated document data in natural language form to an output data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John J. Bird, Doyle J. McCoy