Patents by Inventor Raymond A. James

Raymond A. James 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).

  • Patent number: 9052943
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and computer program product for using gathered system activity statistics to determine when to schedule a procedure. Selection is made of one of at least one lull window having a plurality of consecutive time slots each having an activity value lower than a threshold point comprising a low activity level among during time slots within a distribution of activity values of the time slots over recurring time periods. The procedure in the computer system is scheduled to be performed during the time slots in the lull window in a future time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lourie A. Bryan, Henry S. Heidemann, Raymond A. James
  • Publication number: 20130232505
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and computer program product for using gathered system activity statistics to determine when to schedule a procedure. Selection is made of one of at least one lull window having a plurality of consecutive time slots each having an activity value lower than a threshold point comprising a low activity level among during time slots within a distribution of activity values of the time slots over recurring time periods. The procedure in the computer system is scheduled to be performed during the time slots in the lull window in a future time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lourie A. Bryan, Henry S. Heidemann, Raymond A. James
  • Patent number: 8451856
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and computer program product for using gathered system activity statistics to determine when to schedule a procedure. Activity information is gathered in a computer system during time slots for recurring time periods. A high activity value is an activity amount of a slot having a maximum amount of activity and a low activity value is an activity amount of a slot having a minimum amount of activity. A threshold point is determined as a function of the high activity, the low activity, and a threshold percent comprising a percentage value. A selection is made of at least one lull window having a plurality of consecutive time slots each having an activity value lower than the threshold point and the procedure in the computer system is scheduled to be performed during the time slots in the lull window in a future time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lourie A. Bryan, Henry Scott Heidemann, Raymond A. James
  • Publication number: 20120233619
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and computer program product for using gathered system activity statistics to determine when to schedule a procedure. Activity information is gathered in a computer system during time slots for recurring time periods. A high activity value is an activity amount of a slot having a maximum amount of activity and a low activity value is an activity amount of a slot having a minimum amount of activity. A threshold point is determined as a function of the high activity, the low activity, and a threshold percent comprising a percentage value. A selection is made of at least one lull window having a plurality of consecutive time slots each having an activity value lower than the threshold point and the procedure in the computer system is scheduled to be performed during the time slots in the lull window in a future time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lourie A. Bryan, Henry Scott Heidemann, Raymond A. James
  • Publication number: 20120051369
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and computer program product for using gathered system activity statistics to determine when to schedule a procedure. Activity information is gathered in a computer readable storage medium indicating activity in a computer system during time slots for recurring time periods, wherein each time period includes a plurality of time slots. A high activity value is determined comprising an activity amount of a slot having a maximum amount of activity among the slots for the time periods and a low activity value is determined comprising an activity amount of a slot having a minimum amount of activity among the slots for the time periods. A threshold point is determined as a function of the high activity, the low activity, and a threshold percent comprising a percentage value. A determination is made as to whether there is at least one lull window having a plurality of consecutive time slots each having an activity value lower than the threshold point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lourie A. Bryan, Henry Scott Heidemann, Raymond A. James
  • Patent number: 7685334
    Abstract: A host library controller employs a plurality of ports for establishing a plurality of communication paths from the host library controller to a medium changer library. The host library controller further employs a processor and a memory storing instructions for the processor to issue a command from a medium changer command set, and to select one or more of the ports for communicating the medium changer command to the medium changer library depending on a command processing status of each port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lourie A. Bryan, James A. Fisher, Raymond A. James, Kerri R. Shotwell
  • Patent number: 7437735
    Abstract: A technique for reducing the number of events that are transmitted by a server to a client in a client/server application programming interface (API). At the server host, each of different event messages is associated with at least one event category in a hierarchy of event categories. Each client host sends a registration request to the server host to inform the server host that the client host wants to receive only event messages that are associated with a specified event category. The server host associates the specified event category with each client host, and communicates only the event messages that are descendants of the specified event category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Linda V. Benhase, Raymond A. James, Brian S. McCain, John R. Paveza, Amy L. Therrien, Glenn P. Williamson
  • Patent number: 4690433
    Abstract: A composite mailable business record and envelope assembly requiring only single manual entries to produce an original enclosed in an envelope and a retained record copy has only a single sheet foldable into three page sections to produce an addressed envelope with entries retained on the record page. The record page has a tab end for retaining in a book or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Glenwood Systems U.S.A., Ltd.
    Inventors: David F. Showers, Raymond A. James