Patents by Inventor James N. Paterson

James N. Paterson 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).

  • Dynamically grouping monitored resources in a cloud environment to collections representing a composite application
    Patent number: 11165660
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for grouping resources based upon ownership in a cloud environment into a collection representing a composite application corresponding to a particular user; automatically monitoring the resources across two or more virtual machines and two or more physical computing devices; and displaying the monitored resources in a graphical user interface (GUI) in a context associated with the composite application for managing the composite application and the resources, wherein the resources are provided as one or more of a platform as service (PaaS) environment and an infrastructure as Service (IaaS) environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Y. Chang, Ching Y. Chao, Timothy L. Land, Lorne D. Long, James N. Paterson, David M. Reichek, John C. Sanchez, Donald R. Woods
  • Dynamically grouping monitored resources in a cloud environment to collections representing a composite application
    Patent number: 11165661
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for grouping resources based upon ownership in a cloud environment into a collection representing a composite application corresponding to a particular user; automatically monitoring the resources across two or more virtual machines and two or more physical computing devices; and displaying the monitored resources in a graphical user interface (GUI) in a context associated with the composite application for managing the composite application and the resources, wherein the resources are provided as one or more of a platform as service (PaaS) environment and an infrastructure as Service (IaaS) environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Y. Chang, Ching Y. Chao, Timothy L. Land, Lorne D. Long, James N. Paterson, David M. Reichek, John C. Sanchez, Donald R. Woods
  • Sorting systems in a tree
    Patent number: 9203651
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for monitoring, via a monitoring server, attributes of computer systems in communication with the monitoring server. A graphical user interface may display selectable attributes of the computer systems monitored by the monitoring server. The computer systems may be sorted in a tree based upon, at least in part, one or more selected attributes of the computer systems monitored by the monitoring server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David G. Terry, Masabumi Koinuma, Timothy Lloyd Land, James N. Paterson, Tao Sun
  • DYNAMICALLY GROUPING MONITORED RESOURCES IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT TO COLLECTIONS REPRESENTING A COMPOSITE APPLICATION
    Publication number: 20140337746
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for grouping resources based upon ownership in a cloud environment into a collection representing a composite application corresponding to a particular user; automatically monitoring the resources across two or more virtual machines and two or more physical computing devices; and displaying the monitored resources in a graphical user interface (GUI) in a context associated with the composite application for managing the composite application and the resources, wherein the resources are provided as one or more of a platform as service (PaaS) environment and an infrastructure as Service (IaaS) environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: John Y. Chang, Ching Y. Chao, Timothy L. Land, Lorne D. Long, James N. Paterson, David M. Reichek, John C. Sanchez, Donald R. Woods
  • DYNAMICALLY GROUPING MONITORED RESOURCES IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT TO COLLECTIONS REPRESENTING A COMPOSITE APPLICATION
    Publication number: 20140337750
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for grouping resources based upon ownership in a cloud environment into a collection representing a composite application corresponding to a particular user; automatically monitoring the resources across two or more virtual machines and two or more physical computing devices; and displaying the monitored resources in a graphical user interface (GUI) in a context associated with the composite application for managing the composite application and the resources, wherein the resources are provided as one or more of a platform as service (PaaS) environment and an infrastructure as Service (IaaS) environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: John Y. Chang, Ching Y. Chao, Timothy L. Land, Lorne D. Long, James N. Paterson, David M. Reichek, John C. Sanchez, Donald R. Woods
  • SORTING SYSTEMS IN A TREE
    Publication number: 20100306364
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for monitoring, via a monitoring server, attributes of computer systems in communication with the monitoring server. A graphical user interface may display selectable attributes of the computer systems monitored by the monitoring server. The computer systems may be sorted in a tree based upon, at least in part, one or more selected attributes of the computer systems monitored by the monitoring server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: David G. Terry, Masabumi Koinuma, Timothy Lloyd Land, James N. Paterson, Tao Sun