Patents by Inventor Paul Pietrek

Paul Pietrek 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).

  • Monitoring agent programs in a distributed computing platform
    Patent number: 8713154
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for monitoring information passed from instances of role(s) of a service application installed on a distributed computing platform and for indexing and analyzing the information within a data store are provided. Monitoring involves a monitoring agent that is integrated within an operating system of computing devices that make up the distributed computing platform. In operation, the monitoring agent retrieves information from the role instances and converts the information into parameters that are assembled to documents. Generally, the parameters are assembled to a uniform-structured format in accordance with a schema imposed by the distributed computing platform. Accordingly, each of the documents across the platform have a common format that promotes processing and analysis without a need for reconfiguration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Pietrek, Jose Bernabeu-Auban, Christopher Marsh, Vamshidhar Kommineni, Richard E Wilbur
  • Monitoring agent programs in a distributed computing platform
    Patent number: 8301759
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for monitoring information passed from instances of role(s) of a service application installed on a distributed computing platform and for indexing and analyzing the information within a data store are provided. Monitoring involves a monitoring agent that is integrated within an operating system of computing devices that make up the distributed computing platform. In operation, the monitoring agent retrieves information from the role instances and converts the information into parameters that are assembled to documents. Generally, the parameters are assembled to a uniform-structured format in accordance with a schema imposed by the distributed computing platform. Accordingly, each of the documents across the platform have a common format that promotes processing and analysis without a need for reconfiguration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Pietrek, Jose Bernabeu-Auban, Christopher Marsh, Vamshidhar Kommineni, Richard E. Wilbur
  • MONITORING AGENT PROGRAMS IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING PLATFORM
    Publication number: 20100106678
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for monitoring information passed from instances of role(s) of a service application installed on a distributed computing platform and for indexing and analyzing the information within a data store are provided. Monitoring involves a monitoring agent that is integrated within an operating system of computing devices that make up the distributed computing platform. In operation, the monitoring agent retrieves information from the role instances and converts the information into parameters that are assembled to documents. Generally, the parameters are assembled to a uniform-structured format in accordance with a schema imposed by the distributed computing platform. Accordingly, each of the documents across the platform have a common format that promotes processing and analysis without a need for reconfiguration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Pietrek, Jose Bernabeu-Auban, Christopher Marsh, Vamshidhar Kommineni, Richard E. Wilbur