Patents by Inventor James Goetz

James Goetz 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).

  • Method and apparatus providing for automatically restarting a client-server connection in a distributed network
    Patent number: 6216163
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing visualization of performance of a distributed network. The method provides a user interface allowing easy visualization of the performance together with methods and apparatus for determining the distance from a client to a server in the network, for determining a service provider domain, for determining network congestion level, for determining bottleneck throughput, for determining bottleneck location, for determining page retrieval time and for automatically restarting a page under predetermined conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Anupam Bharali, James Goetz, Venkat Rangan
  • Method and apparatus determining the load on a server in a network
    Patent number: 5987493
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of measuring a server's network load based on information available in standard IP datagrams transmitted by a server from observations at the client. In the described embodiment, the IPID value in the standard IP datagram is used to calculate the number of IP datagrams transmitted by the server. A calculation may then be carried out to determine the rate of transmission and to provide comparisons with historical transmission rates and transmission rates for other servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: INSoft Inc.
    Inventors: Venkat Rangan, James Goetz