Patents by Inventor Ian L. Gregor

Ian L. Gregor 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: 9912571
    Abstract: A method, program product, and system for a transaction parallelization improvement metric calculation includes receiving tracking data. The tracking data includes information about inbound and outbound subtransactions between domains over a time frame. Each domain includes at least one computer. Using the tracking data received, a number of interactions are determined based on a number of the inbound and outbound subtransactions. A total number of domains is determined using received tracking data. A transaction parallelization metric is calculated using the tracking data and a transaction parallelization improvement metric is calculated based on the number of interactions, the number domains, and the transaction parallelization metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scot W. Dixon, Ian L. Gregor, Benjamin Hartnett, Mark N. Weatherill
  • Publication number: 20170187604
    Abstract: A method, program product, and system for a transaction parallelization improvement metric calculation includes receiving tracking data. The tracking data includes information about inbound and outbound subtransactions between domains over a time frame. Each domain includes at least one computer. Using the tracking data received, a number of interactions are determined based on a number of the inbound and outbound subtransactions. A total number of domains is determined using received tracking data. A transaction parallelization metric is calculated using the tracking data and a transaction parallelization improvement metric is calculated based on the number of interactions, the number domains, and the transaction parallelization metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Scot W. Dixon, Ian L. Gregor, Benjamin Hartnett, Mark N. Weatherill
  • Patent number: 9509578
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for calculating an average parallelization metric. A tracking application receives tracking data that tracks how at least one server processes a plurality of transactions. Each of the plurality of transactions is comprised of a plurality of subtransactions. A parallelization metric is calculated for each of the plurality of transactions and an average parallelization metric is calculated from the calculated parallelization metrics. The parallelization metric for each transactions calculating using the calculated sum of the response times for all of the subtransactions for one transaction, the longest response time for one subtransaction out of response times for all of plurality of subtransaction that comprise the one transaction, and the calculated actual execution time for the transaction based on the time when the transaction starts to when the transaction has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scot W. Dixon, Ian L. Gregor, Benjamin Hartnett, Mark N. Weatherill