Patents by Inventor Ian McCracken

Ian McCracken 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: 8914499
    Abstract: A computer processor device provides a dependency tree representing (i) relationships among all the infrastructure elements in a computer system that are related to delivery of a service by a computer system, and (ii) how the infrastructure elements interact with each other in a delivery of said service, wherein a state of an infrastructure element is impacted only by states among its immediately dependent infrastructure elements of the dependency tree. The computer processor device determines the state of the service by checking current states of infrastructure elements in the dependency tree that immediately depend from the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Zenoss, Inc.
    Inventors: John Richard Houlihan, Charles Glen Holden, Jr., Ian McCracken, Jean-Pierre Louis, Philip Warren
  • Publication number: 20120215912
    Abstract: A computer processor device provides a dependency tree representing (i) relationships among all the infrastructure elements in a computer system that are related to delivery of a service by a computer system, and (ii) how the infrastructure elements interact with each other in a delivery of said service, wherein a state of an infrastructure element is impacted only by states among its immediately dependent infrastructure elements of the dependency tree. The computer processor device determines the state of the service by checking current states of infrastructure elements in the dependency tree that immediately depend from the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: ZENOSS, INC.
    Inventors: John Richard Houlihan, Charles Glen Holden, JR., Ian McCracken, Jean-Pierre Louis, Philip Warren