Patents by Inventor Richard Alan Farel

Richard Alan Farel 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).

  • System and method for diagnosing computer system operational behavior
    Patent number: 7035766
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying computer system performance signatures and for identifying the cause of undesirable performance signatures, particularly with respect to both application-based and computer system-based parameters. Respective parametric information data is matched with corresponding parameters found in a stored plurality of reference signatures. If a match is found between the behavior of a computer system under study and a reference signature, the present invention provides information about the cause(s) of the reference signature, such that appropriate remedial measures can be taken. If a match is not found (according to predetermined matching rules), then the present invention may provide additional prompts to request additional information or test data such that the signature of computer system being tested can be further refined so that the signature of the target computer system might more closely match a reference signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: AT&T Corp.
    Inventors: Richard Alan Farel, Kenichi Futumura, Mehdi Hosseini-Nasab, Anestis Karasaridis, William J. Leighton, III, Varsha Arvind Mainkar, Kathleen S. Meier-Hellstern, Paul Kevin Reeser
  • System and method for diagnosing computer system operational behavior
    Patent number: 6792393
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying computer system performance signatures and for identifying the cause of undesirable performance signatures, particularly with respect to both application-based and computer system-based parameters. Respective parametric information data is matched with corresponding parameters found in a stored plurality of reference signatures. If a match is found between the behavior of a computer system under study and a reference signature, the present invention provides information about the cause(s) of the reference signature, such that appropriate remedial measures can be taken. If a match is not found (according to predetermined matching rules), then the present invention may provide additional prompts to request additional information or test data such that the signature of computer system being tested can be further refined so that the signature of the target computer system might more closely match a reference signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: AT&T Corp.
    Inventors: Richard Alan Farel, Kenichi Futumura, Mehdi Hosseini-Nasab, Anestis Karasaridis, William J. Leighton, III, Varsha Arvind Mainkar, Kathleen S. Meier-Hellstern, Paul Kevin Reeser