Patents by Inventor Paul A. Wojciak
Paul A. Wojciak 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: 10958727Abstract: A time server of a server time protocol (STP) facility of a coordinated timing network (CTN) receives a primary-reference-time (PRT) update, with the primary-reference-time update having been determined with reference to a time source, which includes a precision-time-protocol (PTP) source. The time server sets a primary reference time correction steering rate for the coordinated timing network based on receiving the primary-reference-time update, and broadcasts to one or more other servers of the coordinated timing network a PRT-correction-steering information block (PCSIB). The PRT-correction-steering information block includes a precision-time-protocol identifier for the time source used in determining the primary-reference-time update, and the primary-reference-time correction steering rate set by the time server.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Stephen R. Guendert, John S. Houston, Donald Crabtree, Stephen P. Cherniak, Paul Wojciak
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Patent number: 10903924Abstract: A time server of a coordinated timing network (CTN) receives a command, including a primary-reference-time (PRT) source identifier identifying a time source in use for the server time protocol (STP) facility as a precision-time-protocol (PTP) time server. The time server obtains the primary-reference-time source identifier from the command, and distributes the primary-reference-time source identifier obtained from the command to one or more other servers of the coordinated timing network to facilitate processing within the coordinated timing network.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Stephen R. Guendert, John S. Houston, Donald Crabtree, Stephen P. Cherniak, Paul Wojciak
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Patent number: 10901803Abstract: A set of test cases is obtained to evaluate the resource configuration of a computing environment. One or more test cases of the set of test cases are randomly selected and sent to one or more logical partitions of the computing environment. Execution of the one or more test cases on the one or more logical partitions is monitored. Based on the monitoring, verify whether processing associated with the one or more logical partitions is being performed at an acceptable level. Based on the verifying indicating that the processing is not at an acceptable level, initiating reconfiguring of resources of at least one logical partition of the one or more logical partitions.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Ali Y. Duale, Paul Wojciak
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Publication number: 20200259897Abstract: A time server of a server time protocol (STP) facility of a coordinated timing network (CTN) receives a primary-reference-time (PRT) update, with the primary-reference-time update having been determined with reference to a time source, which includes a precision-time-protocol (PTP) source. The time server sets a primary reference time correction steering rate for the coordinated timing network based on receiving the primary-reference-time update, and broadcasts to one or more other servers of the coordinated timing network a PRT-correction-steering information block (PCSIB). The PRT-correction-steering information block includes a precision-time-protocol identifier for the time source used in determining the primary-reference-time update, and the primary-reference-time correction steering rate set by the time server.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2019Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Stephen R. GUENDERT, John S. HOUSTON, Donald CRABTREE, Stephen P. CHERNIAK, Paul WOJCIAK
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Publication number: 20200259577Abstract: A time server of a coordinated timing network (CTN) receives a command, including a primary-reference-time (PRT) source identifier identifying a time source in use for the server time protocol (STP) facility as a precision-time-protocol (PTP) time server. The time server obtains the primary-reference-time source identifier from the command, and distributes the primary-reference-time source identifier obtained from the command to one or more other servers of the coordinated timing network to facilitate processing within the coordinated timing network.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2019Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Stephen R. GUENDERT, John S. HOUSTON, Donald CRABTREE, Stephen P. CHERNIAK, Paul WOJCIAK
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Publication number: 20200057678Abstract: A set of test cases is obtained to evaluate the resource configuration of a computing environment. One or more test cases of the set of test cases are randomly selected and sent to one or more logical partitions of the computing environment. Execution of the one or more test cases on the one or more logical partitions is monitored. Based on the monitoring, verify whether processing associated with the one or more logical partitions is being performed at an acceptable level. Based on the verifying indicating that the processing is not at an acceptable level, initiating reconfiguring of resources of at least one logical partition of the one or more logical partitions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Ali Y. Duale, Paul Wojciak
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Patent number: 10540267Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for creating test cases are provided. Aspects include obtaining, by a processor, customer usage data from a plurality of customers. The customer usage data is analyzed to identify one or more outlier customer system configurations. A set of customer system attributes are extracted from the one or more outlier customer system configurations and new test cases are created based at least in part on the set of customer system attributes.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Wojciak, Ali Y. Duale
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Publication number: 20190361799Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for creating test cases are provided. Aspects include obtaining, by a processor, customer usage data from a plurality of customers. The customer usage data is analyzed to identify one or more outlier customer system configurations. A set of customer system attributes are extracted from the one or more outlier customer system configurations and new test cases are created based at least in part on the set of customer system attributes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2018Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Paul Wojciak, Ali Y. Duale
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Patent number: 9600403Abstract: A method, product and apparatus for creating functional model of test cases. The method comprising obtaining a set of test cases, wherein each test case of the set of test cases comprises free-text; defining one or more tags, wherein each tag of the one or more tags is associated with a query that is configured, when applied, to determine possession of the tag with respect to a test case based on the free-text; applying the queries on the set of test cases to determine possession of the of the one or more tags for each test case; and generating a functional model based on the set of test cases, wherein the functional model comprising for each tag of the one or more tags, a corresponding functional attribute.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Orna Raz, Randall L Tackett, Paul A Wojciak, Marcel Zalmanovici, Aviad Zlotnick
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Publication number: 20170060734Abstract: A method, product and apparatus for creating functional model of test cases. The method comprising obtaining a set of test cases, wherein each test case of the set of test cases comprises free-text; defining one or more tags, wherein each tag of the one or more tags is associated with a query that is configured, when applied, to determine possession of the tag with respect to a test case based on the free-text; applying the queries on the set of test cases to determine possession of the of the one or more tags for each test case; and generating a functional model based on the set of test cases, wherein the functional model comprising for each tag of the one or more tags, a corresponding functional attribute.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Orna RAZ, Randall L. Tackett, Paul A. Wojciak, Marcel Zalmanovici, Aviad Zlotnick
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Patent number: 9471457Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for determining threshold conditions for performing operations within a performance monitoring tool. Metric data is collected from a computing system environment and clustering analysis is performed on the metric data to generate a plurality of clusters. One or more candidate clusters are selected that are candidate clusters for generating a threshold condition for performance monitoring. At least one threshold condition for performance monitoring is generated based on a composition of the selected one or more candidate clusters. The at least one threshold condition is then applied to future performance metric data to determine whether to perform an operation in response to the future performance metric data meeting or not meeting the at least one threshold condition.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2016Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joydeep Banerjee, Paul A. Wojciak
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Patent number: 9378112Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for determining threshold conditions for performing operations within a performance monitoring tool. Metric data is collected from a computing system environment and clustering analysis is performed on the metric data to generate a plurality of clusters. One or more candidate clusters are selected that are candidate clusters for generating a threshold condition for performance monitoring. At least one threshold condition for performance monitoring is generated based on a composition of the selected one or more candidate clusters. The at least one threshold condition is then applied to future performance metric data to determine whether to perform an operation in response to the future performance metric data meeting or not meeting the at least one threshold condition.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joydeep Banerjee, Paul A. Wojciak
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Publication number: 20160124830Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for determining threshold conditions for performing operations within a performance monitoring tool. Metric data is collected from a computing system environment and clustering analysis is performed on the metric data to generate a plurality of clusters. One or more candidate clusters are selected that are candidate clusters for generating a threshold condition for performance monitoring. At least one threshold condition for performance monitoring is generated based on a composition of the selected one or more candidate clusters. The at least one threshold condition is then applied to future performance metric data to determine whether to perform an operation in response to the future performance metric data meeting or not meeting the at least one threshold condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2016Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Joydeep Banerjee, Paul A. Wojciak
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Publication number: 20130346594Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for determining threshold conditions for performing operations within a performance monitoring tool. Metric data is collected from a computing system environment and clustering analysis is performed on the metric data to generate a plurality of clusters. One or more candidate clusters are selected that are candidate clusters for generating a threshold condition for performance monitoring. At least one threshold condition for performance monitoring is generated based on a composition of the selected one or more candidate clusters. The at least one threshold condition is then applied to future performance metric data to determine whether to perform an operation in response to the future performance metric data meeting or not meeting the at least one threshold condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2012Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Joydeep Banerjee, Paul A. Wojciak
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Patent number: 7146004Abstract: Communication unit comprising a housing in which at least one transducer is placed, and on which a microphone arm is suspended. The housing also has means, such as an ear hook, for fastening the communication unit to the head of a user. The microphone arm is pivotally connected to the housing by a hinge link, and at an outer area of the housing, so that the microphone arm can be moved between a first position in which it lies up against the housing, and a second position in which it extends away from the housing. The microphone arm has a length, which in the main is less than or of the same order as the greatest extent of the housing, so that in the folded-in state the microphone arm does not project out over the circumference of the housing. The communication unit can be used on both the right and the left side of the head, in that the ear hook (6) can be suspended in two different positions, corresponding to the communication unit being worn on the right or the left ear, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2003Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: GN Netcom, Inc.Inventors: Martin Reed Bodley, Ian Paul Smith, Stephen R. Lyman, Christian Bjerrum-Niese, Paul Wojciak, Charles L. Pederson
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Patent number: 7130419Abstract: Communication unit comprising a housing in which at least one transducer is placed, and on which a microphone arm is suspended. The housing also has means, such as an ear hook, for fastening the communication unit to the head of a user. The microphone arm is pivotally connected to the housing by a hinge link, and at an outer area of the housing, so that the microphone arm can be moved between a first position in which it lies up against the housing, and a second position in which it extends away from the housing. The microphone arm has a length, which in the main is less than or of the same order as the greatest extent of the housing, so that in the folded-in state the microphone arm does not project out over the circumference of the housing. The communication unit can be used on both the right and the left side of the head, in that the ear hook (6) can be suspended in two different positions, corresponding to the communication unit being worn on the right or the left ear, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2003Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: GN Netcom, Inc.Inventors: Martin Reed Bodley, Ian Paul Smith, Stephen R. Lyman, Christian Bjerrum-Niese, Paul Wojciak, Charles L. Pederson
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Patent number: 7110535Abstract: Communication unit comprising a housing in which at least one transducer is placed, and on which a microphone arm is suspended. The housing also has means, such as an ear hook, for fastening the communication unit to the head of a user. The microphone arm is pivotally connected to the housing by a hinge link, and at an outer area of the housing, so that the microphone arm can be moved between a first position in which it lies up against the housing, and a second position in which it extends away from the housing. The microphone arm has a length, which in the main is less than or of the same order as the greatest extent of the housing, so that in the folded-in state the microphone arm does not project out over the circumference of the housing. The communication unit can be used on both the right and the left side of the head, in that the ear hook (6) can be suspended in two different positions, corresponding to the communication unit being worn on the right or the left ear, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2001Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: GN Netcom, Inc.Inventors: Martin Reed Bodley, Ian Paul Smith, Stephen R. Lyman, Christian Bjerrum-Niese, Paul Wojciak, Charles L. Pederson
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Publication number: 20040052363Abstract: Communication unit comprising a housing in which at least one transducer is placed, and on which a microphone arm is suspended. The housing also has means, such as an ear hook, for fastening the communication unit to the head of a user. The microphone arm is pivotally connected to the housing by a hinge link, and at an outer area of the housing, so that the microphone arm can be moved between a first position in which it lies up against the housing, and a second position in which it extends away from the housing. The microphone arm has a length, which in the main is less than or of the same order as the greatest extent of the housing, so that in the folded-in state the microphone arm does not project out over the circumference of the housing. The communication unit can be used on both the right and the left side of the head, in that the ear hook (6) can be suspended in two different positions, corresponding to the communication unit being worn on the right or the left ear, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Applicant: GN Netcom, Inc.Inventors: Martin Reed Bodley, Ian Paul Smith, Stephen R. Lyman, Christian Bjerrum-Niese, Paul Wojciak, Charles L. Pederson
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Publication number: 20040052364Abstract: Communication unit comprising a housing in which at least one transducer is placed, and on which a microphone arm is suspended. The housing also has means, such as an ear hook, for fastening the communication unit to the head of a user. The microphone arm is pivotally connected to the housing by a hinge link, and at an outer area of the housing, so that the microphone arm can be moved between a first position in which it lies up against the housing, and a second position in which it extends away from the housing. The microphone arm has a length, which in the main is less than or of the same order as the greatest extent of the housing, so that in the folded-in state the microphone arm does not project out over the circumference of the housing. The communication unit can be used on both the right and the left side of the head, in that the ear hook (6) can be suspended in two different positions, corresponding to the communication unit being worn on the right or the left ear, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Applicant: GN Netcom, Inc.Inventors: Martin Reed Bodley, Ian Paul Smith, Stephen R. Lyman, Christian Bjerrum-Niese, Paul Wojciak, Charles L. Pederson
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Publication number: 20040052362Abstract: Communication unit comprising a housing in which at least one transducer is placed, and on which a microphone arm is suspended. The housing also has means, such as an ear hook, for fastening the communication unit to the head of a user. The microphone arm is pivotally connected to the housing by a hinge link, and at an outer area of the housing, so that the microphone arm can be moved between a first position in which it lies up against the housing, and a second position in which it extends away from the housing. The microphone arm has a length, which in the main is less than or of the same order as the greatest extent of the housing, so that in the folded-in state the microphone arm does not project out over the circumference of the housing. The communication unit can be used on both the right and the left side of the head, in that the ear hook (6) can be suspended in two different positions, corresponding to the communication unit being worn on the right or the left ear, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Applicant: GN Netcom, Inc.Inventors: Martin Reed Bodley, Ian Paul Smith, Stephen R. Lyman, Christian Bjerrum-Niese, Paul Wojciak, Charles L. Pederson