Patents by Inventor Steven S Watson

Steven S Watson 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).

  • Selecting applications for migration from a pod environment to a pool environment
    Patent number: 8209357
    Abstract: A device may receive a selection of an application from a client device, send two or more sets of questions related to the application to the client device, receive answers to the two or more sets of questions from the client device, obtain a score for each of the sets of questions based on the answers, determine whether the application is to be ported from a first computing environment to a virtual computing environment based on the scores, and send results of the determination to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L Allen, Steven S Watson
  • SELECTING APPLICATIONS FOR MIGRATION FROM A POD ENVIRONMENT TO A POOL ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20100274806
    Abstract: A device may receive a selection of an application from a client device, send two or more sets of questions related to the application to the client device, receive answers to the two or more sets of questions from the client device, obtain a score for each of the sets of questions based on the answers, determine whether the application is to be ported from a first computing environment to a virtual computing environment based on the scores, and send results of the determination to the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Allen, Steven S. Watson