Patents by Inventor Paul A. Mestemaker

Paul A. Mestemaker 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).

  • Feedback-based symptom and condition correlation
    Patent number: 8812659
    Abstract: Feedback data can be received from client agents running on client computer systems. The feedback data can include data on the symptoms and conditions for rules that relate computer system symptoms to computer system conditions. The feedback data can be analyzed to produce correlation information that quantifies a degree of correlation between the symptom(s) and condition(s) related by the rule(s). It may be determined whether analysis of the feedback data warrants including one of the rules in correlation mappings to be applied to monitored computer systems. If so, then that rule can be included in the mappings. Information representing the correlation mappings may be transmitted to the monitored computer system(s). Additionally, information representing the correlation mappings may be transmitted to the monitored computer system(s), and types of feedback data collected from the client agents can be altered on the basis of the correlation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Paul A. Mestemaker, Adam C. DePue, Prasanna Kumar Jayapal, Lorenzo Rizzi, Mark Gilbert, Ashvin J. Sanghvi
  • FEEDBACK-BASED SYMPTOM AND CONDITION CORRELATION
    Publication number: 20120303793
    Abstract: Feedback data can be received from client agents running on client computer systems. The feedback data can include data on the symptoms and conditions for rules that relate computer system symptoms to computer system conditions. The feedback data can be analyzed to produce correlation information that quantifies a degree of correlation between the symptom(s) and condition(s) related by the rule(s). It may be determined whether analysis of the feedback data warrants including one of the rules in correlation mappings to be applied to monitored computer systems. If so, then that rule can be included in the mappings. Information representing the correlation mappings may be transmitted to the monitored computer system(s). Additionally, information representing the correlation mappings may be transmitted to the monitored computer system(s), and types of feedback data collected from the client agents can be altered on the basis of the correlation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Paul A. Mestemaker, Adam C. DePue, Prasanna Kumar Jayapal, Lorenzo Rizzi, Mark Gilbert, Ashvin J. Sanghvi