Patents by Inventor Maurice James Perks

Maurice James Perks 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).

  • Determination of impact of a failure of a component for one or more services
    Patent number: 7761730
    Abstract: A method and system for determining an impact of a failure of a component for one or more services that the component is supporting. A data feed received from a processing node includes data indicative of an identity and system status of a component running on the processing node. The system status of the component identifies whether the component has failed or is active. The one or more services is mapped into a calendar function. After determining that the component supports the one or more services, a lookup in the calendar function is performed to identify a temporal activity and a level of criticality of each service of the one or more services. An impact of the system status of the component on the one or more services is determined from analysis of the identified temporal activity and the identified level of criticality of the one or more services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Bailey, Charlotte Newton, Gary Paul Noble, Maurice James Perks, Andrew Tinsley, Melissa Jane Bailey
  • DETERMINATION OF IMPACT OF A FAILURE OF A COMPONENT FOR ONE OR MORE SERVICES
    Publication number: 20090177927
    Abstract: A method and system for determining an impact of a failure of a component for one or more services that the component is supporting. A data feed received from a processing node includes data indicative of an identity and system status of a component running on the processing node. The system status of the component identifies whether the component has failed or is active. The one or more services is mapped into a calendar function. After determining that the component supports the one or more services, a lookup in the calendar function is performed to identify a temporal activity and a level of criticality of each service of the one or more services. An impact of the system status of the component on the one or more services is determined from analysis of the identified temporal activity and the identified level of criticality of the one or more services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Daniel Bailey, Charlotte Newton, Gary Paul Noble, Maurice James Perks, Andrew Tinsley, Melissa Jane Bailey
  • Determining the impact of a component failure on one or more services
    Patent number: 7509518
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for determining the impact of a failure of a component on one or more services that the component is supporting. The method receiving a data feed from a processing node, the data feed containing data indicative of the identity and system status of a component running on the processing node; in response to the identity of the component, first determining if the component supports one or more services; identifying the temporal activity of the one or more services and, in dependence on the determining step, second determining the impact of the system status on the one or more services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Bailey, Charlotte Newton, Gary Paul Noble, Maurice James Perks, Andrew Tinsley, Melissa Jane Tongue