Patents by Inventor Richard A. Welp

Richard A. Welp 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).

  • Publication number: 20090192818
    Abstract: A system for continuous health monitoring includes a computer system including a locking mechanism configured to allow multiple health point checks to be accessed simultaneously, a plurality of component health point checks configured to monitor at least one component of the system and configured to store health monitoring statistics in the computer system, and a scheduler configured to periodically enable the plurality of component health point checks based on one of a user request and a predefined amount of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew C. Compton, Louis D. Echevarria, Nikhil Khandelwal, Michael R. Maletich, Ricardo S. Padilla, Robin D. Roberts, Steve P. Wallace, Richard A. Welp
  • Publication number: 20090187818
    Abstract: Tracking web page comments on a computer includes storing comments on the web page and rendering the stored comments on a next draft site web page, in accordance with comment tracking policies. The comment tracking is accomplished by storing comments on the web page, upon receiving a uniform resource locator to a draft site, then loading the draft web site into an inline frame object on an application web site and loading content of the draft web site into a portion of the application web site. After loading the content, comments are drawn on a z-layer on top of a page of the drawn draft web site, by the application web site, using a scripting language; implemented by the application web site, in accordance with stored comment tracking policies. The scripting language comments and their memory locations are transmitted back to the network server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew C. Compton, Louis D. Echevarria, Michael R. Maletich, Richard A. Welp
  • Publication number: 20090094336
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program code which monitors a group of networked computers by notifying a central apparatus or database of the current state of each of the computers. The monitoring is achieved through software and hardware which obtains the state of each of the networked computers, determines if a new computer has been connected to the network, sets a state for each new computer and determines if any one of the networked computers has not notified the database of its current state within a prescribed interval of time. The hardware and software also determines if any one of the networked computers is in an inactive state, if any one of the networked computers has changed its state to inactive and updates the database to reflect the current state of each of the networked computers. A list of users is notified of the state of each computer, along with the reason for any change in state of each computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Louis D. Echevarria, Andrew G. Hourselt, Stefan Lehmann, Richard A. Welp
  • Publication number: 20080313208
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for automated context-sensitive message organization. The method in the disclosed embodiments substantially includes determining a logical correlation between a message identifier and a message file. The method may also include scanning a source code file to identify a reference to the message identifier and the associated context of the reference. In a further embodiment, the method includes analyzing source code file and message file based on a context of the identified reference in accordance with a predetermined analysis rule. Additionally, the method may include generating an output based on a result of the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew G. Hourselt, Siou Lin, Michael R. Maletich, Richard A. Welp