Patents by Inventor Peter M. Piet

Peter M. Piet 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).

  • Method and system of supporting a computer network resource pool
    Patent number: 7606892
    Abstract: A method and system of supporting a computer network resource pool. In one embodiment of the invention, a resource pool sparing-plan and a resource pool support-plan are selected; for the selected resource sparing-plan and resource support-plan, the probability that all resources in the resource pool are operating properly is determined. The method is repeated to generate results from which an acceptable support-plan and a sparing-plan is chosen for implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter M. Piet, Rudolph J. Gomez
  • Method of calculating device metrics
    Patent number: 6950781
    Abstract: A method and system of calculating device metric is disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, life-cycle data for devices are acquired; then, the devices are qualified based on the completeness and consistency of the data for calculating the metric. The metric is then calculated using the qualified devices data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Rudolph J. Gomez, Peter M. Piet, Kip M. Farmer
  • Method and system for assessing availability of complex electronic systems, including computer systems
    Patent number: 6895533
    Abstract: A semi-automated availability-assessment system and methodology. A comprehensive questionnaire providing detailed information about the hardware and operating-system components and configuration of a system, application-and-database-software components and configuration of the system, data related to other potential sources of unplanned downtime, and data related to potential sources of planned downtime is received. The information contained in the received questionnaire is processed in several steps. First, hardware and operating-system-component-and-configuration information is extracted in order to conduct a Markov-chain availability analysis of the overall system hardware and operating system to provide a first intermediate result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: William M. Gray, Curtis P. Kolovson, Lawrence D. Wiebe, Peter M. Piet
  • Method of calculating device metrics
    Publication number: 20040249602
    Abstract: A method and system of calculating device metric is disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, life-cycle data for devices are acquired; then, the devices are qualified based on the completeness and consistency of the data for calculating the metric. The metric is then calculated using the qualified devices data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Rudolph J. Gomez, Peter M. Piet, Kip M. Farmer
  • Method and system of supporting a computer network resource pool
    Publication number: 20040215777
    Abstract: A method and system of supporting a computer network resource pool. In one embodiment of the invention, a resource pool sparing-plan and a resource pool support-plan are selected; for the selected resource sparing-plan and resource support-plan, the probability that all resources in the resource pool are operating properly is determined. The method is repeated to generate results from which an acceptable support-plan and a sparing-plan is chosen for implementation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventors: Peter M. Piet, Rudolph J. Gomez
  • Method and system for assessing availability of complex electronic systems, including computer systems
    Publication number: 20030182599
    Abstract: A semi-automated availability-assessment system and methodology. A comprehensive questionnaire providing detailed information about the hardware and operating-system components and configuration of a system, application-and-database-software components and configuration of the system, data related to other potential sources of unplanned downtime, and data related to potential sources of planned downtime is received. The information contained in the received questionnaire is processed in several steps. First, hardware and operating-system-component-and-configuration information is extracted in order to conduct a Markov-chain availability analysis of the overall system hardware and operating system to provide a first intermediate result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: William M. Gray, Curtis P. Kolovson, Lawrence D. Wiebe, Peter M. Piet