Patents by Inventor Tim McConnell

Tim McConnell 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).

  • PROGRAMMATIC VALIDATION IN AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20090172769
    Abstract: Programmatically validating service level policies established for business applications of an Information Technology environment. The programmatic validation predicts whether the policies are achievable within the environment. Examples of service level policies include quantitative goals, redundancy levels and resource use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mythili K. Bobak, Chun-Shi Chang, Tim A. McConnell, Michael D. Swanson
  • USE OF REDUNDANCY GROUPS IN RUNTIME COMPUTER MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20090172669
    Abstract: A Redundancy Group includes one or more functionally equivalent resources, and is employed in the dynamic reconfiguration of resources. This enables a business application associated with the resources to be actively managed during runtime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mythili K. Bobak, Chun-Shi Chang, Tim A. McConnell, Michael D. Swanson
  • DEFINING A COMPUTER RECOVERY PROCESS THAT MATCHES THE SCOPE OF OUTAGE
    Publication number: 20090172460
    Abstract: Recovery processing is defined that matches the scope of an outage. A programmatic analysis of the resources that have been impacted, of implications of the failure and what degradations have occurred is performed to construct an appropriate level of recovery. This includes selecting the appropriate set of resources to be recovered. Recovery operations are selected based on the current state of the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mythili K. BOBAK, Tim A. McCONNELL, Michael D. SWANSON
  • DYNAMIC GENERATION OF PROCESSES IN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS
    Publication number: 20090172670
    Abstract: Workflows to be used in managing a computing environment are dynamically and programmatically created and/or activities are invoked, based on the current state of the environment. In creating a workflow, activities are conditionally included in the workflow based on the state of the environment. Different types of workflows may be created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mythili K. Bobak, David V. Bostjancic, Tim A. McConnell, Michael D. Swanson
  • MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTER EVENTS IN A COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20090172687
    Abstract: The scope and impact of an event, such as a failure, are identified. A Containment Region is used to identify the resources affected by the event. It is also used to aggregate resource state for those resources. This information is then used to manage one or more aspects of a customer's environment. This management may include recovery from a failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mythili K. BOBAK, Tim A. McConnell, Michael D. SWANSON
  • DEFINING AND USING TEMPLATES IN CONFIGURING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTS
    Publication number: 20090171705
    Abstract: Templates are provided and used in an Information Technology (IT) environment. A template represents a pattern of resources and resource relationships of the IT environment. Templates are applied to automatically generate recommendations of programmatic representations of artifacts of the IT environment. The artifacts include Recovery Segments, Redundancy Groups, Business Resilience Manager deployment configurations and/or resource pairing represented by relationship data stores, as examples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mythili K. BOBAK, Tim A. McCONNELL, Michael D. SWANSON, Brian O. WOOD
  • CONDITIONAL ACTIONS BASED ON RUNTIME CONDITIONS OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20090172461
    Abstract: Conditionally performing delegated actions based on runtime conditions of the environment. A component of an Information Technology environment conditionally performs an action, such as its own recovery, based on whether the component can have such action delegated to it and/or whether that component is currently being shared by multiple business applications of the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mythili K. BOBAK, Tim A. McConnell, Michael D. Swanson
  • MANAGING EXECUTION WITHIN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20090172688
    Abstract: The projected effect of executing a proposed action on the computing environment is determined. Based on the projected effect, programmatic enforcement of whether the action is allowed to execute or not is provided. The action is selected based on the current status of the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mythili K. BOBAK, Tim A. McCONNELL, Michael D. SWANSON
  • NON-DISRUPTIVELY CHANGING SCOPE OF COMPUTER BUSINESS APPLICATIONS BASED ON DETECTED CHANGES IN TOPOLOGY
    Publication number: 20090171730
    Abstract: A change to resource scope is to be made. Responsive to the changed resource scope, the IT environment is changed. This change is performed non-disruptively. Further, during the change, management to the existing resource scope is continued.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mythili K. Bobak, Tim A. McConnell, Michael D. Swanson
  • MANAGING THE COMPUTER COLLECTION OF INFORMATION IN AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20090172674
    Abstract: The collection of information in an Information Technology environment is dynamically managed. Processing associated with a batch of requests executed to obtain information is adjusted in real-time based on whether responses to the requests executed within an allotted time frame were received. The adjustments may include adjusting the time allotted to execute a batch of requests, adjusting the number of requests in a batch, and/or adjusting the execution priority of the requests within a batch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mythili K. BOBAK, Tim A. McCONNELL, Michael D. SWANSON