Patents by Inventor John Fitzgerald Baker

John Fitzgerald Baker 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).

  • Automated SLA performance analysis monitor with impact alerts on downstream jobs
    Patent number: 5893905
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring the performance of selected data processing jobs, comparing actual performance against the Service Level Agreement (SLA) to which each monitored job belongs, identifying discrepancies, and analyzing impacts to other jobs in a job stream. The present invention, also referred to as the Automated SLA Monitor (ASM), is a distributed computing platform comprising one or more Production Consoles for extracting job performance data from the production mainframe computers (or production midrange computers in other embodiments), one or more Production Servers for housing databases, one or more Maintenance Workstations for entering and maintaining SLA data, and one or more Client Workstations for presenting selected data to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1999
    Assignee: MCI Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony A. Main, Burt L. Crockett, Ann Oneta Haehn, Michael R. McIntyre, John Fitzgerald Baker, William T. Donovan, Jr., Richard W. Lindgren, Jr., Wayne C. McAvoy