Patents by Inventor Kyle C. Lau

Kyle C. Lau 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).

  • Method and system for storing and reporting network performance metrics using histograms
    Patent number: 6975963
    Abstract: A method for reporting data network monitoring information. The method includes accessing performance metric values for a network component and generating a trace of graph data points for the performance metric values. For a range of the trace, a histogram is built and displayed corresponding to the graph data points. For a user interface, a performance monitoring display is generated including a graph of the trace relative to an x-axis and a y-axis and a representation of the histogram. The graph data points in the trace corresponds to a histogram previously built from the performance metric values, and the trace is generated by determining and plotting an average value of each of the graph data point histograms. The building of the histogram for the performance monitoring display involves combining the graph data point histograms corresponding to the graph data points in the selected histogram range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: McData Corporation
    Inventors: David B. Hamilton, Louis M. Arquié, Kyle C. Lau
  • Method and system for storing and reporting network performance metrics using histograms
    Publication number: 20040064293
    Abstract: A method for reporting data network monitoring information. The method includes accessing performance metric values for a network component and generating a trace of graph data points for the performance metric values. For a range of the trace, a histogram is built and displayed corresponding to the graph data points. For a user interface, a performance monitoring display is generated including a graph of the trace relative to an x-axis and a y-axis and a representation of the histogram. The graph data points in the trace corresponds to a histogram previously built from the performance metric values, and the trace is generated by determining and plotting an average value of each of the graph data point histograms. The building of the histogram for the performance monitoring display involves combining the graph data point histograms corresponding to the graph data points in the selected histogram range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: David B. Hamilton, Louis M. Arquie, Kyle C. Lau