Patents by Inventor Richard Jeffrey Planutis

Richard Jeffrey Planutis 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 apparatus for customizable surveillance of network interfaces
    Patent number: 7756048
    Abstract: A method in a data processing system for monitoring for errors on a network. Responsive to detecting a change in a state of the network, determine whether the change in state is a loss of a communications link to a remote data processing system. If the change in state is a loss of the communications link, determine whether the communications link was established for at least a first period of time to be considered an acceptable connection to the remote data processing system; and create a new serviceable event, if a second period of time passes without reestablishing the communications link to the selected data processing system. Repeat occurrences of identical outages are tracked and multiple detected instances of an outage for different partitions are counted as a single failure in the examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: George Henry Ahrens, Jr., Patrick J. Callaghan, Stephen V. Feustel, Robert Keith Overton, Richard Jeffrey Planutis, Alan David Seid
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CUSTOMIZABLE SURVEILLANCE OF NETWORK INTERFACES
    Publication number: 20080162985
    Abstract: A method in a data processing system for monitoring for errors on a network. Responsive to detecting a change in a state of the network, determine whether the change in state is a loss of a communications link to a remote data processing system. If the change in state is a loss of the communications link, determine whether the communications link was established for at least a first period of time to be considered an acceptable connection to the remote data processing system; and create a new serviceable event, if a second period of time passes without reestablishing the communications link to the selected data processing system. Repeat occurrences of identical outages are tracked and multiple detected instances of an outage for different partitions are counted as a single failure in the examples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: George Henry Ahrens, Patrick J. Callaghan, Stephen V. Feustel, Robert Keith Overton, Richard Jeffrey Planutis, Alan David Seid
  • Method and apparatus for customizable surveillance of network interfaces
    Patent number: 7339885
    Abstract: A method in a data processing system for monitoring for errors on a network. Responsive to detecting a change in a state of the network, determine whether the change in state is a loss of a communications link to a remote data processing system. If the change in state is a loss of the communications link, determine whether the communications link was established for at least a first period of time to be considered an acceptable connection to the remote data processing system; and create a new serviceable event, if a second period of time passes without reestablishing the communications link to the selected data processing system. Repeat occurrences of identical outages are tracked and multiple detected instances of an outage for different partitions are counted as a single failure in the examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: George Henry Ahrens, Jr., Patrick J. Callaghan, Stephen V. Feustel, Robert Keith Overton, Richard Jeffrey Planutis, Alan David Seid
  • Method and apparatus for customizable surveillance of network interfaces
    Publication number: 20040246893
    Abstract: A method in a data processing system for monitoring for errors on a network. Responsive to detecting a change in a state of the network, determine whether the change in state is a loss of a communications link to a remote data processing system. If the change in state is a loss of the communications link, determine whether the communications link was established for at least a first period of time to be considered an acceptable connection to the remote data processing system; and create a new serviceable event, if a second period of time passes without reestablishing the communications link to the selected data processing system. Repeat occurrences of identical outages are tracked and multiple detected instances of an outage for different partitions are counted as a single failure in the examples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: George Henry Ahrens, Patrick J. Callaghan, Stephen V. Feustel, Robert Keith Overton, Richard Jeffrey Planutis, Alan David Seid