Patents by Inventor Martin Hough

Martin Hough 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).

  • Publication number: 20060161894
    Abstract: A method and a computer product executing the method are provide for automatically verifying management packs by an operations manager. The method includes receiving a management pack containing configuration information enabling an operations manager to remotely manage computer systems and computer software, and automatically verifying the management pack by determining whether the management pack satisfies a set of requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Maxim Oustiougov, Martin Hough, Vishal Maru, Anil Yadav
  • Publication number: 20050188269
    Abstract: An improved system and method for building a health model is provided. A health model builder may construct a health model from instrumentation of software. To do so, the instrumentation of the software component may be mapped to states of operation of the software component and the instrumentation may be grouped together. A health model may be built with the states of operation resulting from mapping the instrumentation to states of operation of the software component and with transitions between the states of the health model that represent an occurrence of instrumentation in an instrumentation group. The system allows for identification of anti-alert instrumentation to be added where instrumentation is missing for reporting recovery from failure. Moreover, a blame component may be identified for any instrumentation of a software component that indicates it failed because of another software component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ahmed El-Shimi, Christopher Hallum, Martin Hough, Lorenzo Rizzi, Anil Yadav