Patents by Inventor Patricia A Gaughen
Patricia A Gaughen 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: 9032374Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for software debugging using annotation metadata. A set of metadata comprising source code annotation information for a software program is maintained, together with data/metadata relationships between individual units of the metadata and individual units of the source code. A software debugging point is set that is associated with debugging point metadata comprising one or more units the metadata. A debugging action is performed when execution of the software program reaches said debugging point.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Eric B. Munson, Ramachandra N. Pai, Timothy C. Pepper, Nathan V. Bak, Gerrit Huizenga, Patricia A. Gaughen
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Patent number: 9003399Abstract: A software development service offering of generating and installing software applications packages on computer systems running a set of operating systems including LINUX and UNIX operating systems, by creating a dynamic repository; populating a plurality software packages; running a tool that creates a set of index files, wherein the set of index files includes a menu of the plurality of software packages, wherein each software package in the plurality of software packages contains a set of contents; determining whether a software package is included in a menu of the plurality of software packages; and delivering to a client system the software package requested in a selection request, or delivering to the client system an other software package, when the software package is not included in the menu of the plurality of software packages.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nathan V. Bak, Patricia A. Gaughen, Huizenga Gerrit, Jon A. Grimm, Donjuma S. Lee, Eric B. Munson, Ramachandra N. Pai, Timothy C. Pepper
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Patent number: 8495567Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article are provided for managing migration of annotations between versions of source code. Annotations associated with patterns of source code are identified. A comparison of the modified source code is conducted in conjunction with the identified annotations in a prior version of the source code to determine if the annotations may be migrated to any portions of the modified source code. The comparison includes an exact match and a partial match. With respect to the partial match, a threshold value is employed to define the parameters of a partial match. All annotations that are determine to be an exact match or a partial match are automatically migrated to a location in the modified source code determine to match within the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nathan V. Bak, Patricia A. Gaughen, Gerrit Huizenga, Eric B. Munson, Ramachandra Pai, Timothy C. Pepper
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Patent number: 8291472Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide for adjusting authentication conditions in real-time. A graph-theoretic data structure is dynamically constructing, having nodes corresponding to received valid and invalid authentication credentials used in attempts to access a system. Based on the graph-theoretic data structure, embodiments compute a probability of an invalid credential being an authentication attempt by a particular type of user. If the probability is beyond a threshold probability, embodiments trigger a security event is to adjust an authentication condition of the system, e.g., to increase or decrease a maximum permissible number of failed login attempts within a certain period of time.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nathan V Bak, Patricia A Gaughen, Avantika R Mathur, Timothy C Pepper
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Publication number: 20110185401Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide for adjusting authentication conditions in real-time. A graph-theoretic data structure is dynamically constructing, having nodes corresponding to received valid and invalid authentication credentials used in attempts to access a system. Based on the graph-theoretic data structure, embodiments compute a probability of an invalid credential being an authentication attempt by a particular type of user. If the probability is beyond a threshold probability, embodiments trigger a security event is to adjust an authentication condition of the system, e.g., to increase or decrease a maximum permissible number of failed login attempts within a certain period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2010Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Nathan V. BAK, Patricia A. GAUGHEN, Avantika R. MATHUR, Timothy C. PEPPER
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Publication number: 20100185652Abstract: A method, system, and article of manufacture are provided for locating a resource in a data structure hierarchy. Data is stored in a hierarchy, such as an objected oriented hierarchy. For each encountered resource that requires data from the hierarchy, identifier and level information is extracted for that resource. A set of resource fallback rules are followed to traverse the hierarchy and to locate a corresponding data item for the subject resource in the hierarchy.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nathan V. Bak, Patricia A. Gaughen, Gerrit Huizenga, Eric B. Munson, Ramachandra N. Pai, Timothy C. Pepper
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Publication number: 20090254883Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for software debugging using annotation metadata. A set of metadata comprising source code annotation information for a software program is maintained, together with data/metadata relationships between individual units of the metadata and individual units of the source code. A software debugging point is set that is associated with debugging point metadata comprising one or more units the metadata. A debugging action is performed when execution of the software program reaches said debugging point.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Eric B. Munson, Ramachandra N. Pai, Timothy C. Pepper, Nathan V. Bak, Gerrit Huizenga, Patricia A. Gaughen
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Publication number: 20090249291Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article are provided for managing migration of annotations between versions of source code. Annotations associated with patterns of source code are identified. A comparison of the modified source code is conducted in conjunction with the identified annotations in a prior version of the source code to determine if the annotations may be migrated to any portions of the modified source code. The comparison includes an exact match and a partial match. With respect to the partial match, a threshold value is employed to define the parameters of a partial match. All annotations that are determine to be an exact match or a partial match are automatically migrated to a location in the modified source code determine to match within the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Nathan V. Bak, Patricia A. Gaughen, Gerrit Huizenga, Eric B. Munson, Ramachandra Pai, Timothy C. Pepper
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Publication number: 20090070757Abstract: A software development service offering of generating and installing software applications packages on computer systems running a set of operating systems including LINUX and UNIX operating systems, by creating a dynamic repository; populating a plurality software packages; running a tool that creates a set of index files, wherein the set of index files includes a menu of the plurality of software packages, wherein each software package in the plurality of software packages contains a set of contents; determining whether a software package is included in a menu of the plurality of software packages; and delivering to a client system the software package requested in a selection request, or delivering to the client system an other software package, when the software package is not included in the menu of the plurality of software packages.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2007Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Nathan V. Bak, Patricia A. Gaughen, Huizenga Gerrit, Jon A. Grimm, Donjuma S. Lee, Eric B. Munson, Ramachandra N. Pai, Timothy C. Pepper