Patents by Inventor Russell C. Blaisdell
Russell C. Blaisdell 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).
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Patent number: 9009324Abstract: A method and system for managing and reconciling naming conflicts in a configuration database. Attributes are collected about a detected resource in a network. Valid names for the detected resource are created based on the collected attributes and a set of naming rules. A valid name is created for each naming rule, and the naming rules have a priority order. A master-alias table is search to locate a match between existing names of known resources recorded in the master-alias table and any of the valid names. A partial match of resource attributes is determined to exist when all of the valid names in the set of valid names do not match an existing name in a matching entry. The detected resource is determined to be a new resource or an existing resource based on a priority of the naming rules used to create the valid names.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ronald B. Baker, Russell C. Blaisdell, Paul M. Evans, Ling-Ching W. Tai
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Publication number: 20140143211Abstract: A method and system for managing and reconciling naming conflicts in a configuration database. Attributes are collected about a detected resource in a network. Valid names for the detected resource are created based on the collected attributes and a set of naming rules. A valid name is created for each naming rule, and the naming rules have a priority order. A master-alias table is search to locate a match between existing names of known resources recorded in the master-alias table and any of the valid names. A partial match of resource attributes is determined to exist when all of the valid names in the set of valid names do not match an existing name in a matching entry. The detected resource is determined to be a new resource or an existing resource based on a priority of the naming rules used to create the valid names.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2014Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ronald B. Baker, Russell C. Blaisdell, Paul M. Evans, Ling-Ching W. Tai
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Patent number: 8645543Abstract: A method and system for managing and reconciling naming conflicts in a configuration database. Attributes are collected about a detected resource in a network. Valid names for the detected resource are created based on the collected attributes and a set of naming rules. A valid name is created for each naming rule, and the naming rules have a priority order. A master-alias table is search to locate a match between existing names of known resources recorded in the master-alias table and any of the valid names. A partial match of resource attributes is determined to exist when all of the valid names in the set of valid names do not match an existing name in a matching entry. The detected resource is determined to be a new resource or an existing resource based on a priority of the naming rules used to create the valid names.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2010Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ronald B. Baker, Russell C. Blaisdell, Paul M. Evans, Ling-Ching W. Tai
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Patent number: 8326974Abstract: A monitor for information technology resources improved by introducing typicality filters to analyze potential event indicators such as alerts. A typicality filter keeps a time-dependent history of the frequency of occurrence of an associated event, wherein time is segmented into monitoring periods. At the end of each monitoring period, a present count of occurrences of the event is determined, and compared with the numbers of occurrences of that event in a subset of monitoring periods read from the history. If the present count exceeds the number of occurrences of the event in a predetermined proportion of the subset of historical monitoring periods, a first action is invoked; otherwise, a second action is invoked.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Russell C. Blaisdell, John Michael Lake, Scot MacLellan
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Publication number: 20120096163Abstract: A method and system for managing and reconciling naming conflicts in a configuration database. Attributes are collected about a detected resource in a network. Valid names for the detected resource are created based on the collected attributes and a set of naming rules. A valid name is created for each naming rule, and the naming rules have a priority order. A master-alias table is search to locate a match between existing names of known resources recorded in the master-alias table and any of the valid names. A partial match of resource attributes is determined to exist when all of the valid names in the set of valid names do not match an existing name in a matching entry. The detected resource is determined to be a new resource or an existing resource based on a priority of the naming rules used to create the valid names.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Ling-Ching W. Tai, Ronald B. Baker, Russell C. Blaisdell, Paul M. Evans
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Patent number: 7681198Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for workload categorization for detecting role changes in a host computing device. A workload characterization system for detecting role changes in a host computing device can include a transaction logging and change detection processor. The processor can be configured to log and detect role changes in the host computing device through an instrumentation monitoring interface to underlying applications supporting a workload based upon a comparison of workload patterns generated from logged transaction executions.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2004Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Russell C. Blaisdell, John Michael Lake, Scot MacLellan
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Patent number: 7669088Abstract: A system and method for monitoring the availability of an application in a distributed data processing environment are provided. The performance aspects of application availability are defined in terms of easily observed and computed characteristics of the application as it behaves in a deployed environment with the deployed configuration. The system and method observe the application processes, the structural resources they require, and the consumable resources they require from the running system itself. These observations are then used to derive minimum requirements for the resource requirement aspects of availability as well as derive criteria for normal behavioral conditions. These minimum requirements and normal behavioral conditions are then used to establish monitoring rules or conditions for monitoring the operation of the application to determine if availability of the application is degrading such that a notification needs to be sent to an administrator.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2008Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Russell C. Blaisdell, John Michael Lake, Scot MacLellan
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Publication number: 20090106777Abstract: A monitor for information technology resources improved by introducing typicality filters to analyze potential event indicators such as alerts. A typicality filter keeps a time-dependent history of the frequency of occurrence of an associated event, wherein time is segmented into monitoring periods. At the end of each monitoring period, a present count of occurrences of the event is determined, and compared with the numbers of occurrences of that event in a subset of monitoring periods read from the history. If the present count exceeds the number of occurrences of the event in a predetermined proportion of the subset of historical monitoring periods, a first action is invoked; otherwise, a second action is invoked.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2009Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Russell C. Blaisdell, John Michael Lake, Scot MacLellan
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Publication number: 20090094488Abstract: A system and method for monitoring the availability of an application in a distributed data processing environment are provided. The performance aspects of application availability are defined in terms of easily observed and computed characteristics of the application as it behaves in a deployed environment with the deployed configuration. The system and method observe the application processes, the structural resources they require, and the consumable resources they require from the running system itself. These observations are then used to derive minimum requirements for the resource requirement aspects of availability as well as derive criteria for normal behavioral conditions. These minimum requirements and normal behavioral conditions are then used to establish monitoring rules or conditions for monitoring the operation of the application to determine if availability of the application is degrading such that a notification needs to be sent to an administrator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Russell C. Blaisdell, John Michael Lake, Scot MacLellan
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Patent number: 7496660Abstract: A monitor for information technology resources improved by introducing typicality filters to analyze potential event indicators such as alerts. A typicality filter keeps a time-dependent history of the frequency of occurrence of an associated event, wherein time is segmented into monitoring periods. At the end of each monitoring period, a present count of occurrences of the event is determined, and compared with the numbers of occurrences of that event in a subset of monitoring periods read from the history. If the present count exceeds the number of occurrences of the event in a predetermined proportion of the subset of historical monitoring periods, a first action is invoked; otherwise, a second action is invoked.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2004Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Russell C. Blaisdell, John Michael Lake, Scot MacLellan
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Patent number: 7480834Abstract: A system and method for monitoring the availability of an application in a distributed data processing environment are provided. The performance aspects of application availability are defined in terms of easily observed and computed characteristics of the application as it behaves in a deployed environment with the deployed configuration. The system and method observe the application processes, the structural resources they require, and the consumable resources they require from the running system itself. These observations are then used to derive minimum requirements for the resource requirement aspects of availability as well as derive criteria for normal behavioral conditions. These minimum requirements and normal behavioral conditions are then used to establish monitoring rules or conditions for monitoring the operation of the application to determine if availability of the application is degrading such that a notification needs to be sent to an administrator.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2005Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Russell C. Blaisdell, John Michael Lake, Scot MacLellan
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Patent number: 6357019Abstract: The present invention involves a system that employs network loadable debugging agents which are capable of first failure support for software products. The present invention enables the user working with object-oriented programming systems, such as AWT (“Abstract Windowing Toolkit”) problems on the JavaOS operating system, to get an inside view of the system's graphics/messaging, etc., without having to run special builds of the system. It also allows the user to look into a problem on any network connected computer system running an object-oriented operating system, when the failure first occurs, without having to reload the system, reboot and recreate the problem.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1999Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Russell C. Blaisdell, Edwin James Hilpert, Jr.