Patents by Inventor Tian J. Chao

Tian J. Chao 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).

  • Patent number: 9304991
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for using monitoring intent to match business processes or monitoring templates. One or more business processes and monitoring templates are identified by obtaining at least one business process or monitoring template, wherein at least one of the obtained business process or monitoring template has an associated monitoring intent comprising one or more monitoring keywords; obtaining a user-specified monitoring intent from the user, the user-specified monitoring intent comprising one or more search keywords; assigning a score to at least one of the obtained business process or monitoring template, wherein the score is based on a matching of one or more of the monitoring keywords from the associated monitoring intent with the search keywords of the user-specified monitoring intent; and identifying the one or more of the plurality of business processes and the plurality of monitoring templates based on the assigned score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian J. Chao, Sreeram Ramakrishnan
  • Publication number: 20110191351
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for using monitoring intent to match business processes or monitoring templates. One or more business processes and monitoring templates are identified by obtaining at least one business process or monitoring template, wherein at least one of the obtained business process or monitoring template has an associated monitoring intent comprising one or more monitoring keywords; obtaining a user-specified monitoring intent from the user, the user-specified monitoring intent comprising one or more search keywords; assigning a score to at least one of the obtained business process or monitoring template, wherein the score is based on a matching of one or more of the monitoring keywords from the associated monitoring intent with the search keywords of the user-specified monitoring intent; and identifying the one or more of the plurality of business processes and the plurality of monitoring templates based on the assigned score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tian J. Chao, Sreeram Ramakrishnan
  • Publication number: 20110191128
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for creating a monitoring template for a business process. A monitoring template for a business process monitoring system is generated by providing a predefined schema definition for the monitoring template, wherein the predefined schema definition comprises a predefined format for describing the business process monitoring system using one or more predefined keywords, wherein the predefined schema definition comprises at least one monitoring model element that allows a user to specify one or more monitoring elements required to generate the business process monitoring system; and receiving a specification of the one or more monitoring elements from the user. The monitoring template can be used, for example, to generate deployable code for an operational runtime version of the business process monitoring system. The monitoring template allows monitoring models and business process monitoring systems to be reused.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tian J. Chao, Sreeram Ramakrishnan
  • Publication number: 20110191143
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for specifying a monitoring intent of a business process or a monitoring template. A monitoring intent of a business process monitoring system is defined by providing a predefined schema definition for the monitoring intent, wherein the predefined schema definition comprises a predefined format for describing the monitoring intent using one or more predefined keywords, wherein the predefined schema definition comprises a description of the monitoring intent and one or more contextual keywords; and receiving a specification of the description and the one or more contextual keywords from the user. The monitoring intent generally specifies one or more monitoring requirements of the business process monitoring system. The monitoring intent of a business process or a monitoring template may be matched with one or more search keywords. The predefined schema definition for the description comprises a set of expression rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tian J. Chao, Sreeram Ramakrishnan