Patents by Inventor Paul A. Boothe

Paul A. Boothe 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).

  • Patent number: 9940582
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to technical support management and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for intelligent problem tracking to optimize technical support. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for intelligent problem tracking can include receiving recorded information of tracked end user behavior collected in an end user computing system while the end user addresses a problem in the end user computing system, determining a level of technical sophistication of the user based upon the recorded information, selecting a technical support level corresponding to the determined level of technical sophistication of the user, and transmitting a resolution to the problem in a message to the end user computing system commensurate with the selected technical support level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul A. Boothe, Moises Cases, Bhyrav M. Mutnury
  • Patent number: 8359220
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, apparatus and products for technical support routing among members of a technical support group, including maintaining, by a configuration manager, a system configuration history of a user's computer system, the system configuration history including historical records of changes in configuration of the user's computer system; receiving, by a technical support module, a support request identifying a current error that occurred during operation of the user's computer system including receiving information describing the error and the system configuration history of the user's computer system; and routing, by the technical support module automatically without human intervention, the support request to one or more particular members of the technical support group in dependence upon the information describing the error and the system configuration history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul A. Boothe, Mioses Cases, Bhyrav M. Mutnury, William G. Pagan
  • Publication number: 20100138677
    Abstract: The distribution of data among a plurality of data storage devices may be optimized, in one embodiment, by redistributing the data to move less-active data to lesser performing data storage devices and to move more-active data to higher performing data storage devices. Power consumption in the datacenter may be optimized by selectively reducing power to data storage devices to which less-active data, such as persistent data, has been moved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: William G. Pagan, Moises Cases, Paul A. Boothe, Carl E. Jones, Bhyrav M. Mutnury
  • Publication number: 20100057657
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to technical support management and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for intelligent problem tracking to optimize technical support. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for intelligent problem tracking can include receiving recorded information of tracked end user behavior collected in an end user computing system while the end user addresses a problem in the end user computing system, determining a level of technical sophistication of the user based upon the recorded information, selecting a technical support level corresponding to the determined level of technical sophistication of the user, and transmitting a resolution to the problem in a message to the end user computing system commensurate with the selected technical support level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul A. Boothe, Moises Cases, Bhyrav M. Mutnury
  • Publication number: 20090292579
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, apparatus and products for technical support routing among members of a technical support group, including maintaining, by a configuration manager, a system configuration history of a user's computer system, the system configuration history including historical records of changes in configuration of the user's computer system; receiving, by a technical support module, a support request identifying a current error that occurred during operation of the user's computer system including receiving information describing the error and the system configuration history of the user's computer system; and routing, by the technical support module automatically without human intervention, the support request to one or more particular members of the technical support group in dependence upon the information describing the error and the system configuration history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul A. Boothe, Moises Cases, Bhyrav M. Mutnury, William G. Pagan