Patents by Inventor Michael Bill Murphy
Michael Bill Murphy 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).
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Patent number: 7836214Abstract: A system configuration manager provides a graphical user interface that allows a system administrator to easily administer configuration settings for different computer systems and platforms on a computer network. The system configuration manager allows identifying one system configuration or a settings profile as a “model system”. Once the model system is defined, other computer systems may be compared to the model system. Differences between the selected computer systems and the model system are then displayed, and the system configuration manager may be used to update the selected computer systems with configuration settings specified in the model system. Cross-platform support is provided by a configuration mapping mechanism that maps configuration information from one platform to corresponding configuration information for another platform.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kenneth Edgar Brown, Gregory Richard Hintermeister, Michael Bill Murphy
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Patent number: 7487231Abstract: A system configuration manager provides a graphical user interface that allows a system administrator to easily administer configuration settings for different computer systems and platforms on a computer network. The system configuration manager of the present invention allows identifying one system configuration or a settings profile as a “model system”. Once the model system is defined, other computer systems may be compared to the model system. Differences between the selected computer systems and the model system are then displayed, and the system configuration manager may be used to update the selected computer systems with configuration settings specified in the model system. Cross-platform support is provided by a configuration mapping mechanism that maps configuration information from one platform to corresponding configuration information for another platform.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2005Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kenneth Edgar Brown, Gregory Richard Hintermeister, Michael Bill Murphy
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Patent number: 7441051Abstract: A system configuration manager provides a graphical user interface that allows a system administrator to easily administer configuration settings for different computer systems and platforms on a computer network. The system configuration manager allows identifying one system configuration or a settings profile as a “model system”. Once the model system is defined, other computer systems may be compared to the model system. Differences between the selected computer systems and the model system are then displayed, and the system configuration manager may be used to update the selected computer systems with configuration settings specified in the model system. Cross-platform support is provided by a configuration mapping mechanism that maps configuration information from one platform to corresponding configuration information for another platform.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2006Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kenneth Edgar Brown, Gregory Richard Hintermeister, Michael Bill Murphy
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Publication number: 20080215869Abstract: A system configuration manager provides a graphical user interface that allows a system administrator to easily administer configuration settings for different computer systems and platforms on a computer network. The system configuration manager allows identifying one system configuration or a settings profile as a “model system”. Once the model system is defined, other computer systems may be compared to the model system. Differences between the selected computer systems and the model system are then displayed, and the system configuration manager may be used to update the selected computer systems with configuration settings specified in the model system. Cross-platform support is provided by a configuration mapping mechanism that maps configuration information from one platform to corresponding configuration information for another platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Kenneth Edgar Brown, Gregory Richard Hintermeister, Michael Bill Murphy
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Patent number: 7398332Abstract: A system configuration manager provides a graphical user interface that allows a system administrator to easily administer configuration settings for different computer systems and platforms on a computer network. The system configuration manager allows identifying one system configuration or a settings profile as a “model system”. Once the model system is defined, other computer systems may be compared to the model system. Differences between the selected computer systems and the model system are then displayed, and the system configuration manager may be used to update the selected computer systems with configuration settings specified in the model system. Cross-platform support is provided by a configuration mapping mechanism that maps configuration information from one platform to corresponding configuration information for another platform.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2006Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kenneth Edgar Brown, Gregory Richard Hintermeister, Michael Bill Murphy
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Patent number: 7379985Abstract: A system configuration manager provides a graphical user interface that allows a system administrator to easily administer configuration settings for different computer systems and platforms on a computer network. The system configuration manager of the present invention allows identifying one system configuration or a settings profile as a “model system”. Once the model system is defined, other computer systems may be compared to the model system. Differences between the selected computer systems and the model system are then displayed, and the system configuration manager may be used to update the selected computer systems with configuration settings specified in the model system. Cross-platform support is provided by a configuration mapping mechanism that maps configuration information from one platform to corresponding configuration information for another platform.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2005Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kenneth Edgar Brown, Gregory Richard Hintermeister, Michael Bill Murphy
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Patent number: 7171458Abstract: A system configuration manager provides a graphical user interface that allows a system administrator to easily administer configuration settings for different computer systems and platforms on a computer network. The system configuration manager of the present invention allows identifying one system configuration or a settings profile as a “model system”. Once the model system is defined, other computer systems may be compared to the model system. Differences between the selected computer systems and the model system are then displayed, and the system configuration manager may be used to update the selected computer systems with configuration settings specified in the model system. Cross-platform support is provided by a configuration mapping mechanism that maps configuration information from one platform to corresponding configuration information for another platform.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2001Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kenneth Edgar Brown, Gregory Richard Hintermeister, Michael Bill Murphy
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Publication number: 20020188701Abstract: A system configuration manager provides a graphical user interface that allows a system administrator to easily administer configuration settings for different computer systems and platforms on a computer network. The system configuration manager of the present invention allows identifying one system configuration or a settings profile as a “model system”. Once the model system is defined, other computer systems may be compared to the model system. Differences between the selected computer systems and the model system are then displayed, and the system configuration manager may be used to update the selected computer systems with configuration settings specified in the model system. Cross-platform support is provided by a configuration mapping mechanism that maps configuration information from one platform to corresponding configuration information for another platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2001Publication date: December 12, 2002Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Kenneth Edgar Brown, Gregory Richard Hintermeister, Michael Bill Murphy