Patents by Inventor Lawrence D. Wiebe

Lawrence D. Wiebe 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 assessing availability of complex electronic systems, including computer systems
    Patent number: 6895533
    Abstract: A semi-automated availability-assessment system and methodology. A comprehensive questionnaire providing detailed information about the hardware and operating-system components and configuration of a system, application-and-database-software components and configuration of the system, data related to other potential sources of unplanned downtime, and data related to potential sources of planned downtime is received. The information contained in the received questionnaire is processed in several steps. First, hardware and operating-system-component-and-configuration information is extracted in order to conduct a Markov-chain availability analysis of the overall system hardware and operating system to provide a first intermediate result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: William M. Gray, Curtis P. Kolovson, Lawrence D. Wiebe, Peter M. Piet
  • Method and system for assessing availability of complex electronic systems, including computer systems
    Publication number: 20030182599
    Abstract: A semi-automated availability-assessment system and methodology. A comprehensive questionnaire providing detailed information about the hardware and operating-system components and configuration of a system, application-and-database-software components and configuration of the system, data related to other potential sources of unplanned downtime, and data related to potential sources of planned downtime is received. The information contained in the received questionnaire is processed in several steps. First, hardware and operating-system-component-and-configuration information is extracted in order to conduct a Markov-chain availability analysis of the overall system hardware and operating system to provide a first intermediate result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: William M. Gray, Curtis P. Kolovson, Lawrence D. Wiebe, Peter M. Piet