Patents by Inventor John A. McCaskey

John A. McCaskey 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).

  • Patent number: 8702518
    Abstract: A system and method for determining and providing one or more guest passes for temporary access to one or more video games to a first player that was previously granted membership to a platform that offers access to playing these video games. One or more different determinations are made on information related to the first player and/or available video games to generate one or more guest passes for a video game that is at least somewhat relevant to the first player. In at least one embodiment, one or more of the different determinations can be intrinsically and/or extrinsically weighted to further refine the generation of a guest pass for a video games that is at least somewhat relevant to the first player, and thereby more likely to be offered by the first player to a second player. Also, the platform enables the determining and generating of the one or more guest passes to the one or more video games for the first player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: John A. McCaskey, IV, Derrick Jason Birum, John Cook, Erik Axel Johnson, Gregory Coomer
  • Patent number: 8239527
    Abstract: An application service provider (ASP)-based interface and system for analyzing performance and costs of respective enterprise information technology assets from the correlation of metrics data of enterprise SNMP-enabled devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Compuware Corporation
    Inventors: James N. Maiocco, Bradley M. Belanger, Brian E. Mansell, John A. McCaskey
  • Patent number: 8185619
    Abstract: An agentless software data collector in a customer computer network collects metrics data from managed devices on the network to provide to a remote data center accessed via a public wide area network (WAN) interface. The software data collector collects metrics data, as well as receives real-time queries, such as from a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) initiated from a hosted web interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Compuware Corporation
    Inventors: James Maiocco, Brad Belanger, Brian Mansell, John McCaskey
  • Patent number: 7814201
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for monitoring global network performance across a public Wide Area Network (WAN), and/or private networking through a secure IPSec gateway, and providing a user interface for performance metrics through a secure Internet browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Compuware Corporation
    Inventors: James N. Maiocco, Bradley M. Belanger, Brian E. Mansell, John A. McCaskey
  • Publication number: 20100229096
    Abstract: An application service provider (ASP)-based interface and system for analyzing performance and costs of respective enterprise information technology assets from the correlation of metrics data of enterprise SNMP-enabled devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: James N. Maiocco, Bradley M. Belanger, Brian E. Mansell, John A. McCaskey
  • Patent number: 7752301
    Abstract: An application service provider (ASP)-based interface and system for analyzing performance and costs of respective enterprise information technology assets from the correlation of metrics data of enterprise SNMP-enabled devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Gomez Acquisition Corporation
    Inventors: James N. Maiocco, Bradley M. Belanger, Brian E. Mansell, John A. McCaskey
  • Publication number: 20090245122
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for monitoring global network performance across a public Wide Area Network (WAN), and/or private networking through a secure IPSec gateway, and providing a user interface for performance metrics through a secure Internet browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: James N. MAIOCCO, Bradley M. BELANGER, Brian E. MANSELL, John A. MCCASKEY
  • Patent number: 7478151
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for monitoring global network performance across a public Wide Area Network (WAN), and/or private networking through a secure IPSec gateway, and providing a user interface for performance metrics through a secure Internet browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Gomez, Inc.
    Inventors: James N. Maiocco, Bradley M. Belanger, Brian E. Mansell, John A. McCaskey
  • Publication number: 20080234043
    Abstract: A system and method for determining and providing one or more guest passes for temporary access to one or more video games to a first player that was previously granted membership to a platform that offers access to playing these video games. One or more different determinations are made on information related to the first player and/or available video games to generate one or more guest passes for a video game that is at least somewhat relevant to the first player. In at least one embodiment, one or more of the different determinations can be intrinsically and/or extrinsically weighted to further refine the generation of a guest pass for a video games that is at least somewhat relevant to the first player, and thereby more likely to be offered by the first player to a second player. Also, the platform enables the determining and generating of the one or more guest passes to the one or more video games for the first player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: John A. McCaskey, Derrick Jason Birum, John Cook, Erik Axel Johnson, Gregory Coomer