Patents by Inventor Jo Etta Hill

Jo Etta Hill 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).

  • Knowledge based resource management
    Patent number: 5675724
    Abstract: The knowledge based system identifies the occurrence of a failure within the customer equipment and functions using its rules, hypotheses and collected data to isolate the functional resource which is the source of the error in the customer equipment and, whenever possible, "fence" or isolate the failed functional resource that has caused the error. In addition, the knowledge based system makes use of resource related rules to remove a resource or set of resources available for concurrent other failure management operations. The resource related rules allow resources to function in any one non-operational or operational mode or to functional simultaneously in multiple non-operational modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: Storage Technology Corporation
    Inventors: David Grant Beal, Jo Etta Hill, Fletcher Lawrence Hill, Nancy Rosann Jurestovsky, Michael Robert Stephens