Patents by Inventor Kenneth Willard Lott

Kenneth Willard Lott 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 distributed monitoring of endpoints in a management region
    Patent number: 7209963
    Abstract: An apparatus and Method for distributed monitoring of endpoint devices using gateway servers is provided. With this apparatus and method, a healthcheck engine is provided on each of the gateway servers having endpoint devices that are to be monitored. The healthcheck engine periodically or continuously sends requests to the endpoint devices that they respond with a hostname transmitted to them. If the endpoint responds, a list of monitored endpoints is updated with a new timestamp indicating the time when the response was received. If a response is not received, a determination is made as to whether one or more time thresholds has been exceeded. If so, a Tivoli Enterprise Console event corresponding to the particular threshold exceeded, is sent to the TEC server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Toby L. Burton, Rhonda L. Childress, Prabhakar Gopalan, Kenneth Willard Lott
  • Apparatus and method for distributed monitoring of endpoints in a management region
    Publication number: 20040010586
    Abstract: An apparatus and Method for distributed monitoring of endpoint devices using gateway servers is provided. With this apparatus and method, a healthcheck engine is provided on each of the gateway servers having endpoint devices that are to be monitored. The healthcheck engine periodically or continuously sends requests to the endpoint devices that they respond with a hostname transmitted to them. If the endpoint responds, a list of monitored endpoints is updated with a new timestamp indicating the time when the response was received. If a response is not received, a determination is made as to whether one or more time thresholds has been exceeded. If so, a Tivoli Enterprise Console event corresponding to the particular threshold exceeded, is sent to the TEC server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Toby L. Burton, Rhonda L. Childress, Prabhakar Gopalan, Kenneth Willard Lott