Patents by Inventor KURT WESTERFIELD

KURT WESTERFIELD 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: 9191380
    Abstract: The system and method described herein for managing information technology models in an intelligent workload management system may include a computing environment having a model-driven, service-oriented architecture for creating collaborative threads to manage workloads. In particular, the management threads may converge information for managing planned changes and recovery processes for version-controlled snapshots of the information technology models. For example, a discovery engine may enrich models of an infrastructure with identity information obtained from an identity vault and the infrastructure itself, and a management infrastructure may then manage planned changes to the infrastructure model. In particular, the management infrastructure may construct implementation plans that coordinate interaction between managed entities to implement the planned changes, and may further detect drifts between operational states and planned states for the infrastructure models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric W. B. Anderson, Robert Wipfel, Kurt Westerfield
  • Publication number: 20130036672
    Abstract: A sliding door pet entry system, including a fixed door portion, having an interior side and an exterior side, and having and pet door built into it. The pet door may be automated with an electrical power cord which plugs into a wall outlet. The pet door is shaped and configured such that a sliding door portion which slides completely over the fixed door portion and the pet door without interference from the pet door. The sliding door pet entry system can further include a screen door roll attached to said fixed door portion which rolls out from said fixed door portion to cover the space opened by the sliding of the sliding door portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventor: KURT WESTERFIELD