Patents by Inventor Jonathan Douglas Beard

Jonathan Douglas Beard 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: 7529976
    Abstract: To log errors of a plurality of subsystems, a master reporting tool provides a table identifying the subsystems and their interface protocol addresses with respect to a network. A subsystem reports errors, via the network, to the master reporting tool, and the reporting subsystem identifies and reports other subsystems associated with the errors, if any, to the master reporting tool. The master reporting tool employs the interface addresses of the table to request reportable data from the other subsystems identified by the originally reporting subsystem as associated with the reported error. The network may be separate from a data handling network of the data handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Douglas Beard, Louis Daniel Echevarria, Andrew Gary Hourselt, Robin Daniel Roberts, Kerri Renee Shotwell
  • Publication number: 20070294604
    Abstract: To log errors of a plurality of subsystems, a master reporting tool provides a table identifying the subsystems and their interface protocol addresses with respect to a network. A subsystem reports errors, via the network, to the master reporting tool, and the reporting subsystem identifies and reports other subsystems associated with the errors, if any, to the master reporting tool. The master reporting tool employs the interface addresses of the table to request reportable data from the other subsystems identified by the originally reporting subsystem as associated with the reported error. The network may be separate from a data handling network of the data handling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Jonathan Douglas Beard, Louis Daniel Echevarria, Andrew Gary Hourselt, Robin Daniel Roberts, Kerri Renee Shotwell
  • Patent number: 7302570
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are provided for authorized remote access to a target system. The apparatus, system, and method include a security module and an authorization module that cooperate to authenticate a remote user using three passwords. The apparatus, system, and method selectively generate an encrypted key in response to a first password. The authorization module decrypts the encrypted key and determines a third password in response to authenticating a second password and identifying a remote user within an authorized user list. The third password is then used to gain secure, traceable, and in certain embodiments, restricted remote access to a target system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Douglas Beard, Craig Frederick Schultz, Douglas Wallace Todd