Patents by Inventor John M. Pechacek

John M. Pechacek 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).

  • Apparatus and method for measuring transaction time in a computer system
    Patent number: 6178449
    Abstract: A transaction time measurement mechanism has a transaction time manager running on a server computer system, a transaction time agent running on a client computer system that is coupled to the server computer system via a network, and a simple protocol for allowing them to directly and efficiently communicate. The transaction time agent is configured according to configuration data stored in a configuration table in a transaction time database, and stores transaction time data in a statistics table according to this configuration. The data in the statistics table is indexed to allow retrieving only the transaction time data of interest. The simple communication protocol supports multiple transaction time managers in a network computing environment that may all communicate with a single client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ron Frank Forman, John M. Pechacek, Walter H. Schwane