Patents by Inventor Edward G. Chron

Edward G. Chron 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: 8260622
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention provide methods, computer program products, etc. for complaint-based service level objectives. More specifically, a method of deducing undefined service level objectives receives complaints regarding behavior of a system. The complaints could include a severity parameter, an entity parameter, a nature-of-complaint parameter, a timestamp parameter, and/or an identification parameter. Next, system details representing a current state of the system are recorded for each of the complaints. The method then automatically analyzes a history of the system details and the complaints to produce a historical compilation of the system details. The analyzing can include weighing each of the system details by a severity parameter value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, National Security Agency
    Inventors: Edward G. Chron, David A. Pease, Elizabeth S. Richards, Sandeep M. Uttamchandani
  • Patent number: 7953705
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention provide methods, computer program products, etc. for autonomic retention classes when retaining data within storage devices. More specifically, a method of determining whether to retain data within at least one storage device begins by storing data items in at least one storage device. Furthermore, the method maintains access statistics for each of the data items, an age of each of the data items, and an administrator-defined importance value of each of the data items. Following this, a retention value is calculated for each of the data items based on the access statistics for each of the data items, the age of each of the data items, and the administrator-defined importance value of each of the data items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, National Security Agency
    Inventors: Edward G. Chron, Joseph P. McCloskey, David A. Pease, Elizabeth S. Richards, Sandeep M. Uttamchandani
  • Patent number: 7552131
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention provide methods, computer program products, etc. for autonomic retention classes when retaining data within storage devices. More specifically, a method of determining whether to retain data within at least one storage device begins by storing data items in at least one storage device. Furthermore, the method maintains access statistics for each of the data items, an age of each of the data items, and an administrator-defined importance value of each of the data items. Following this, a retention value is calculated for each of the data items based on the access statistics for each of the data items, the age of each of the data items, and the administrator-defined importance value of each of the data items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edward G. Chron, Joseph P. McCloskey, David A. Pease, Elizabeth S. Richards, Sandeep M. Uttamchandani
  • Publication number: 20080222075
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention provide methods, computer program products, etc. for autonomic retention classes when retaining data within storage devices. More specifically, a method of determining whether to retain data within at least one storage device begins by storing data items in at least one storage device. Furthermore, the method maintains access statistics for each of the data items, an age of each of the data items, and an administrator-defined importance value of each of the data items. Following this, a retention value is calculated for each of the data items based on the access statistics for each of the data items, the age of each of the data items, and the administrator-defined importance value of each of the data items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2007
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Edward G. Chron, Joseph P. McCloskey, David A. Pease, Elizabeth S. Richards, Sandeep M. Uttamchandani
  • Publication number: 20080222225
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention provide methods, computer program products, etc. for autonomic retention classes when retaining data within storage devices. More specifically, a method of determining whether to retain data within at least one storage device begins by storing data items in at least one storage device. Furthermore, the method maintains access statistics for each of the data items, an age of each of the data items, and an administrator-defined importance value of each of the data items. Following this, a retention value is calculated for each of the data items based on the access statistics for each of the data items, the age of each of the data items, and the administrator-defined importance value of each of the data items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edward G. Chron, Joseph P. McCloskey, David A. Pease, Elizabeth S. Richards, Sandeep M. Uttamchandani
  • Publication number: 20080195404
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention provide methods, computer program products, etc. for complaint-based service level objectives. More specifically, a method of deducing undefined service level objectives receives complaints regarding behavior of a system. The complaints could include a severity parameter, an entity parameter, a nature-of-complaint parameter, a timestamp parameter, and/or an identification parameter. Next, system details representing a current state of the system are recorded for each of the complaints. The method then automatically analyzes a history of the system details and the complaints to produce a historical compilation of the system details. The analyzing can include weighing each of the system details by a severity parameter value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Edward G. Chron, David A. Pease, Elizabeth S. Richards, Sandeep M. Uttamchandani