Patents by Inventor Mark E. Obrecht

Mark E. Obrecht 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).

  • Monitoring computer process resource usage
    Patent number: 10003547
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to improving resource usage on a computer system. In one embodiment, a computer system identifies a plurality of processes running on the computer system and determines an importance value and a resource consumption value. In such an embodiment, the importance value is indicative of an importance of an identified process, and the resource consumption value is indicative of a resource consumption of the identified process. The computer system evaluates the importance value and the resource consumption value relative to a usage policy, and takes a corrective action with respect to the identified process based on the evaluating to reconcile resource consumption with process importance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Ziften Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Obrecht, Robert P. Myers, Alfred C. Hartmann, Nick F. Alagna, Kevin N. Pyle, Scott D. Sullivan, Michael W. Little
  • MONITORING COMPUTER PROCESS RESOURCE USAGE
    Publication number: 20160036722
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to improving resource usage on a computer system. In one embodiment, a computer system identifies a plurality of processes running on the computer system and determines an importance value and a resource consumption value. In such an embodiment, the importance value is indicative of an importance of an identified process, and the resource consumption value is indicative of a resource consumption of the identified process. The computer system evaluates the importance value and the resource consumption value relative to a usage policy, and takes a corrective action with respect to the identified process based on the evaluating to reconcile resource consumption with process importance value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Mark E. Obrecht, Robert P. Myers, Alfred C. Hartmann, Nick F. Alagna, Kevin N. Pyle, Scott D. Sullivan, Michael W. Little
  • Monitoring computer process resource usage
    Patent number: 9098333
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to improving resource usage on a computer system. In one embodiment, a computer system identifies a plurality of processes running on the computer system and determines an importance value and a resource consumption value. In such an embodiment, the importance value is indicative of an importance of an identified process, and the resource consumption value is indicative of a resource consumption of the identified process. The computer system evaluates the importance value and the resource consumption value relative to a usage policy, and takes a corrective action with respect to the identified process based on the evaluating to reconcile resource consumption with process importance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Ziften Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Obrecht, Robert P. Myers, Alfred C. Hartmann, Nick F. Alagna, Kevin N. Pyle, Scott D. Sullivan, Michael W. Little