Patents by Inventor Timothy P. Drees

Timothy P. Drees 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: 8423634
    Abstract: A system and method for visually and mathematically correlating website performance datasets with analytics datasets and optionally with back end application performance datasets in order to determine if variations in one dataset are caused by or related to variations in another dataset and simultaneously determines the cost of slow or unavailable websites by comparing expected traffic to actual traffic during the slow or errant period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Neustar, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Drees, Stella V. Zimmerman, Doug J. Taylor, Lenny Rachitsky
  • Patent number: 8370485
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for isolating performance variation in website monitoring. A set of geographically diverse monitoring agents are identified and a subset of baseline agents is selected from these monitoring agents. The baseline agents are those agents that are geographically close to the target website or otherwise enjoy reliable communications with the target website and are therefore less affected by network latencies. The frequency at which a target website is monitored is weighted in favor of the baseline agents in order to get an accurate baseline metric for the target website while also obtaining information regarding global accessibility of the website from the geographically disperse monitoring agents. The variations in sample frequency can be optimized for each particular set of baseline agents. The set of baseline agents can be pre-assigned or dynamically identified based on an analysis of the performance variation from each of the monitoring agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Neustar, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Drees, Lenny Rachitsky, Doug J. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20110029662
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for isolating performance variation in website monitoring. A set of geographically diverse monitoring agents are identified and a subset of baseline agents is selected from these monitoring agents. The baseline agents are those agents that are geographically close to the target website or otherwise enjoy reliable communications with the target website and are therefore less affected by network latencies. The frequency at which a target website is monitored is weighted in favor of the baseline agents in order to get an accurate baseline metric for the target website while also obtaining information regarding global accessibility of the website from the geographically disperse monitoring agents. The variations in sample frequency can be optimized for each particular set of baseline agents. The set of baseline agents can be pre-assigned or dynamically identified based on an analysis of the performance variation from each of the monitoring agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: NEUSTAR, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Drees, Lenny Rachitsky, Doug J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 7814202
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for isolating performance variation in website monitoring. A set of geographically diverse monitoring agents are identified and a subset of baseline agents is selected from these monitoring agents. The baseline agents are those agents that are geographically close to the target website or otherwise enjoy reliable communications with the target website and are therefore less affected by network latencies. The frequency at which a target website is monitored is weighted in favor of the baseline agents in order to get an accurate baseline metric for the target website while also obtaining information regarding global accessibility of the website from the geographically disperse monitoring agents. The variations in sample frequency can be optimized for each particular set of baseline agents. The set of baseline agents can be pre-assigned or dynamically identified based on an analysis of the performance variation from each of the monitoring agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: NeuStar, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Drees, Lenny Rachitsky, Doug J. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20090240805
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for isolating performance variation in website monitoring. A set of geographically diverse monitoring agents are identified and a subset of baseline agents is selected from these monitoring agents. The baseline agents are those agents that are geographically close to the target website or otherwise enjoy reliable communications with the target website and are therefore less affected by network latencies. The frequency at which a target website is monitored is weighted in favor of the baseline agents in order to get an accurate baseline metric for the target website while also obtaining information regarding global accessibility of the website from the geographically disperse monitoring agents. The variations in sample frequency can be optimized for each particular set of baseline agents. The set of baseline agents can be pre-assigned or dynamically identified based on an analysis of the performance variation from each of the monitoring agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: NEUSTAR, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Drees, Lenny Rachitsky, Doug J. Taylor