Patents by Inventor Thomas Cloward

Thomas Cloward 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).

  • Configuration creation for deployment and monitoring
    Patent number: 8701047
    Abstract: A configuration management and monitoring system may use a hierarchical knowledge base to identify configuration settings, resolve conflicts between configuration settings, and implement and monitor the configuration settings for one or more devices in a network environment. The system may produce a file that may be consumed by an application and with which the application may be configured to conform to the configuration settings. The system may also produce a set of settings that may be used to automate deployment and monitor compliance with the settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Cloward, Xiaoxi Tan
  • Configuration Creation for Deployment and Monitoring
    Publication number: 20100180221
    Abstract: A configuration management and monitoring system may use a hierarchical knowledge base to identify configuration settings, resolve conflicts between configuration settings, and implement and monitor the configuration settings for one or more devices in a network environment. The system may produce a file that may be consumed by an application and with which the application may be configured to conform to the configuration settings. The system may also produce a set of settings that may be used to automate deployment and monitor compliance with the settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Cloward, Xiaoxi Tan