Patents by Inventor Joaquin Pena

Joaquin Pena 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).

  • Systems, methods and apparatus for developing and maintaining evolving systems with software product lines
    Patent number: 8694963
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which an evolutionary system is managed and viewed as a software product line. In some embodiments, the core architecture is a relatively unchanging part of the system, and each version of the system is viewed as a product from the product line. Each software product is generated from the core architecture with some agent-based additions. The result may be a multi-agent system software product line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: The United States as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics Space Administration
    Inventors: Michael G. Hinchey, James L. Rash, Joaquin Pena
  • SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DEVELOPING AND MAINTAINING EVOLVING SYSTEMS WITH SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINES
    Publication number: 20120096436
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which an evolutionary system is managed and viewed as a software product line. In some embodiments, the core architecture is a relatively unchanging part of the system, and each version of the system is viewed as a product from the product line. Each software product is generated from the core architecture with some agent-based additions. The result may be a multi-agent system software product line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and
    Inventors: MICHAEL G. HINCHEY, JAMES L. RASH, JOAQUIN PENA
  • Systems, methods and apparatus for developing and maintaining evolving systems with software product lines
    Patent number: 8082538
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which an evolutionary system is managed and viewed as a software product line. In some embodiments, the core architecture is a relatively unchanging part of the system, and each version of the system is viewed as a product from the product line. Each software product is generated from the core architecture with some agent-based additions. The result may be a multi-agent system software product line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: Michael G. Hinchey, James L. Rash, Joaquin Pena
  • SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DEVELOPING AND MAINTAINING EVOLVING SYSTEMS WITH SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINES
    Publication number: 20080250389
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which an evolutionary system is managed and viewed as a software product line. In some embodiments, the core architecture is a relatively unchanging part of the system, and each version of the system is viewed as a product from the product line. Each software product is generated from the core architecture with some agent-based additions. The result may be a multi-agent system software product line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: NASA HQ's
    Inventors: Michael G. Hinchey, James L. Rash, Joaquin Pena
  • SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MODELING, SPECIFYING AND DEPLOYING POLICIES IN AUTONOMOUS AND AUTONOMIC SYSTEMS USING AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
    Publication number: 20070074182
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments, an agent-oriented specification modeled with MaCMAS, is analyzed, flaws in the agent-oriented specification modeled with MaCMAS are corrected, and an implementation is derived from the corrected agent-oriented specification. Described herein are systems, method and apparatus that produce fully (mathematically) tractable development of agent-oriented specification(s) modeled with methodology fragment for analyzing complex multiagent systems (MaCMAS) and policies for autonomic systems from requirements through to code generation. The systems, method and apparatus described herein are illustrated through an example showing how user formulated policies can be translated into a formal mode which can then be converted to code. The requirements-based programming systems, method and apparatus described herein may provide faster, higher quality development and maintenance of autonomic systems based on user formulation of policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: USA as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: Michael Hinchey, Joaquin Pena, Roy Sterritt