Patents by Inventor Ralph James Bateman

Ralph James Bateman 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).

  • Description of activities in software products
    Patent number: 7783928
    Abstract: A method for describing activities in software products is provided. The method provides for identifying a plurality of activities in a software product that are of interest, defining an event structure to describe each identified activity as an event, associating each identified activity with one or more problem determination technologies, executing the software product, and responsive to detecting one of the plurality of identified activities during execution of the software product, creating one or more event records for the one detected activity based on the defined event structure, initiating the one or more problem determination technologies associated with the one detected activity, and passing the one or more event records to each of the one or more problem determination technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Abrashkevich, Dmitri Abrashkevich, Ralph James Bateman, Stephen Rees, Yinghua (Amy) Tang, Robin D. Grosman, Mark Francis Wilding
  • DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES IN SOFTWARE PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20090063904
    Abstract: A method for describing activities in software products is provided. The method provides for identifying a plurality of activities in a software product that are of interest, defining an event structure to describe each identified activity as an event, associating each identified activity with one or more problem determination technologies, executing the software product, and responsive to detecting one of the plurality of identified activities during execution of the software product, creating one or more event records for the one detected activity based on the defined event structure, initiating the one or more problem determination technologies associated with the one detected activity, and passing the one or more event records to each of the one or more problem determination technologies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Alexander Abrashkevich, Dmitri Abrashkevich, Ralph James Bateman, Stephen Rees, Yinghua (Amy) Tang, Robin D. Grosman, Mark Francis Wilding