Patents by Inventor Gerald A. Hatch

Gerald A. Hatch 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).

  • System for scheduling and monitoring computer processes
    Patent number: 7386586
    Abstract: A job scheduling device providing a consistent set of application programming interfaces (APIs) compiled and linked into an individual or suite of programs to provide scheduling services on a single computer or across multiple computing platforms, includes a GUI API for retrieving and validated job parameters, a job scheduling API for allocating jobs based on the job parameters, and an enterprise scheduling agent hosted on one or more nodes of the computer platforms. An enterprise communication agent sends messages containing jobs from a computer executing a program utilizing the job scheduling device to the enterprise scheduling agent on a selected node where the job is to execute. Then, the enterprise scheduling agent retrieves job parameters and launches the job on the selected node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Computer Associates Think, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Headley, Richard E. DeVillers, Shiva Mirzadeh, Gerald A. Hatch