Patents by Inventor Howard Poole

Howard Poole 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).

  • Publication number: 20070061864
    Abstract: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method, system, and program product for managing log-in strikes in a geographically distributed computer infrastructure. Specifically, under the present invention, when a strike message is received on a strikeout server pursuant to an incorrect password input during an attempted log-in of a user, the incorrect password is compared to a strike list to determine if it was previously received on the strikeout server during a predetermined period of time. Based on this determination, the incorrect password and will be stored in a list on the strikeout server with a corresponding timestamp. Thereafter, the strike message and the timestamp will be replicated to all other strikeout servers in the infrastructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bahri Bali, Christopher Barnabo, Gordan Greenlee, Kan Hsiao, Howard Poole, Richard Weingarten
  • Publication number: 20060080450
    Abstract: Under the present invention an audit log for the server environment is obtained and parsed to remove any extraneous information. The parsing operation will typically leave only the previous operations processed by the server environment in the audit log. Thereafter, the parsed audit log is fed back to the server environment. Specifically, each operation in the audit log is fed back to the server environment as a request. Each request will typically have its own thread to simulate concurrent thread activity in the server environment. After the requests have been fed, statistics corresponding to the resulting performance of the server environment will be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gordan Greenlee, Kan Hsiao, Howard Poole, Joseph Riina, Joe Simons, Richard Weingarten