Patents by Inventor James P. Crosskey

James P. Crosskey 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, Apparatus, and Program for Implementing an Automation Computing Evaluation Scale to Generate Recommendations
    Publication number: 20080235079
    Abstract: An automation assessment tool is provided that defines autonomic technology, processes, organization, and skill sets that apply to autonomic computing. The automation assessment tool provides educational material about autonomic computing and a scale of maturity levels, which is used to assess on-demand preparedness. The automation assessment tool presents a survey and collects answers to the survey questions. The automation assessment tool then determines solutions and recommendations to achieve a target level of on-demand preparedness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miles A. Barel, Sandra Carter, James P. Crosskey, Leslie Mark Ernest, David Howard Evans, Lori Lynn Ford, Ronald C. Liles, Dwight Spence, Albert L. Swett
  • System and method of multiparty billing for Web access
    Patent number: 6035281
    Abstract: A system and method for billing one or more participating parties for client access to the internet is disclosed including the steps of identifying at least one of the one or more participating parties as being responsible for the billing, allocating a share of the billing to each responsible participating party based on a predetermined function and computing a billing amount for each of the responsible participating parties based on a function of the share and a client bandwidth usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James P. Crosskey, Mark Gee-Gwo Mei, Harish Ragavan, Kun-Lung Wu, Philip Shi-lung Yu