Patents by Inventor Todd R. Aton

Todd R. Aton 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).

  • On-line service/application monitoring and reporting system
    Patent number: 7457872
    Abstract: An event monitoring and logging system, including apparatuses and methods, for instrumenting an on-line application program, or service, for generating and communicating events upon the occurrence of certain conditions during the execution thereof, for monitoring generated events in real and near-real time in accordance with configurable rules, for generating and communicating selected alerts to appropriate personnel upon the exceeding of configurable thresholds, for logging generated events and related information in data files and databases for subsequent analysis, and for producing reports related to such instrumentation and generated events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Todd R. Aton, Phillip I. Beish