Patents by Inventor Melissa Jane Tongue

Melissa Jane Tongue 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).

  • 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