Patents by Inventor Mark A. McKelvey

Mark A. McKelvey 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: 5349674
    Abstract: A service network has several computer systems connected together. A computer system can either be a "Service Requestor" (SR), a "Service Provider" (SP), or a hybrid of the two, a "Service Provider/Requestor" (SP/R). The service network is built by an enrollment process that adds computer systems into the service network. A SP (or SP/R acting as an SP) already in the network can initiate the enrollment of an SR (or SP/R acting as an SR) into the network. In addition, a SR (or SP/R acting as an SR) can initiate a request for enrollment into the network. If such a request is initiated, it must be approved automatically or with human intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Nathanial Calvert, John L. Koehler, Erik D. Lindberg, Mark A. McKelvey, Steven P. Mervosh, Jeffrey A. Newton, George B. Scarborough, Ruth A. Upchurch, Sandra D. Westling
  • Patent number: 5321837
    Abstract: Computer systems have the ability to monitor their components and operations, generate events which indicate the occurrence of a monitored condition (e.g. out of paper, Joe Smith just signed on, disk utilization nearing capacity, etc.), and process these events in some manner. The present invention provides significant enhancements to the latter capability.The events of an event stream or streams are "filtered" into categories or groups of events. Once categorized, the invention associates an action or actions with the categorized event. The associated action can be logging the event, routing the event to the electronic address of a user, or sending the event to an application program for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur A. Daniel, Mark A. McKelvey, John A. Modry, Eric G. Roubal, Andrew E. Sandstrom, Patrick M. Wildt