Patents by Inventor Stephanie A. Foege

Stephanie A. Foege 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).

  • Qualitative assignment of resources to a logical partition in a multipartitioned computer system
    Patent number: 9047135
    Abstract: A qualitative resource assignment wizard receives qualitative information for a logical partition (LPAR) and calculates computer resource assignments for the LPAR based on the qualitative information and a set of conversion functions. For example, the qualitative resource assignment wizard may calculate a processing unit assignment, a memory assignment, and an I/O slot assignment for the LPAR. The qualitative information may be input by a user, for example, utilizing a graphical user interface (GUI). In one embodiment, the conversion functions are calculated during a training phase, in which a user periodically provides qualitative information while resource usage data is gathered. The wizard may reside in a hardware management console (HMC) or other administrative console and/or may be a component of a hypervisor or other partition management code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephanie A. Foege, Andres Gonzalez, Jr., Shantan Kethireddy, Meryl Lo, Annita Tomko
  • Qualitative Assignment of Resources to a Logical Partition In a Multipartitioned Computer System
    Publication number: 20110185062
    Abstract: A qualitative resource assignment wizard receives qualitative information for a logical partition (LPAR) and calculates computer resource assignments for the LPAR based on the qualitative information and a set of conversion functions. For example, the qualitative resource assignment wizard may calculate a processing unit assignment, a memory assignment, and an I/O slot assignment for the LPAR. The qualitative information may be input by a user, for example, utilizing a graphical user interface (GUI). In one embodiment, the conversion functions are calculated during a training phase, in which a user periodically provides qualitative information while resource usage data is gathered. The wizard may reside in a hardware management console (HMC) or other administrative console and/or may be a component of a hypervisor or other partition management code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephanie A. Foege, Andres Gonzalez, JR., Shantan Kethireddy, Meryl Lo, Annita Tomko