Patents by Inventor Steve Weinberger

Steve Weinberger 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: 20140165036
    Abstract: A method comprises retrieving a change history for each of one or more configuration items for a specified time period, retrieving requests for change identifiers utilized for each of the configuration items in the specified time period, generating an audit report for the configuration items in accordance with the retrieved change history and the retrieve request for change identifiers, determining if each attribute value change in the change history of each of the configuration items is authorized, and recording a marker in the change history through which a given configuration item has authorized changes. Determining if each value change is authorized comprises comparing changes in the retrieved change history to the retrieved request for change identifiers for each of the configuration items to distinguish value changes that occurred without a request for change from value changes that occurred with a request for change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Glenn C. Aikens, Melissa Jane Buco, Maheswaran Surendra, Christopher Ward, Steve Weinberger, Sam Shixiong Yang
  • Patent number: 8631389
    Abstract: Techniques for authenticating one or more configuration items in an information repository are provided comprising the step of running an audit on the one or more configuration items in accordance with a change history of each of the one or more configuration items and one or more request for change identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Glenn C. Aikens, Melissa Jane Buco, Maheswaran Surendra, Christopher Ward, Steve Weinberger, Sam Shixiong Yang
  • Patent number: 7913227
    Abstract: Techniques for managing a plurality of configuration items in an information repository are provided. Lifecycle state transitions of the plurality of configuration items are regulated in accordance with one or more lifecycle state transition diagrams and, when a life cycle state transition involves a protected life cycle state, one or more request for change identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Glenn C. Aikens, Melissa Jane Buco, Maheswaran Surendra, Christopher Ward, Steve Weinberger, Sam Shixiong Yang
  • Publication number: 20080209398
    Abstract: Techniques for authenticating one or more configuration items in an information repository are provided comprising the step of running an audit on the one or more configuration items in accordance with a change history of each of the one or more configuration items and one or more request for change identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Glenn C. Aikens, Melissa Jane Buco, Maheswaran Surendra, Christopher Ward, Steve Weinberger, Sam Shixiong Yang
  • Publication number: 20080208792
    Abstract: Techniques for managing a plurality of configuration items in an information repository are provided. Lifecycle state transitions of the plurality of configuration items are regulated in accordance with one or more lifecycle state transition diagrams and, when a life cycle state transition involves a protected life cycle state, one or more request for change identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Glenn C. Aikens, Melissa Jane Buco, Maheswaran Surendra, Christopher Ward, Steve Weinberger, Sam Shixiong Yang
  • Publication number: 20080004991
    Abstract: A global service management configuration comprises a plurality of interrelated administrative objects. One or more of the plurality of interrelated administrative objects provide access control of one or more of a plurality of configuration items of a configuration management database by at least one of the plurality of interrelated administrative objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Glenn C. Aikens, Naga A. Ayachitula, Messaoud B. Benantar, Krishna S. Garimella, Hari Haranath Madduri, Yan Or, Larisa Shwartz, Maheswaran Surendra, Steve Weinberger
  • Publication number: 20050149610
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product are described for managing the provisioning of resources in a data processing system. There are different types of resources. Each resource is one of these types. Multiple provisioning states are defined for each type of resource. Relationships are defined among the provisioning states. The relationships describe valid transitions from one state to another. Workflows of one or more tasks are defined, varying to the resource implementation specifications, that are associated with each one of the valid transitions between states. When a resource is to transition from a current state, the relationships among states are used to determine a valid next state. The workflow specific to the resource specification and associated with this transition from the current state to the determined next state is then executed in order to transition to the next state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Brooks, Rhonda Childress, Liana Fong, Walter Grom, Stewart Hyman, Michael Kalantar, Steve Weinberger