Patents by Inventor Vijaya Krishnan

Vijaya Krishnan 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).

  • Methods and arrangements for planning and scheduling change management requests in computing systems
    Patent number: 7735086
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for planning and scheduling change management requests in computing systems are disclosed. Included are an arrangement for deciding whether or not an RFC should be done, an arrangement for assigning individual tasks to acceptable servers for each RFC to be done, and an arrangement for assigning the start times to said individual tasks for each RFC to be done.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph L. Hellerstein, Alexander Keller, Vijaya Krishnan, Joel L. Wolf, Kun-Lung Wu
  • Methods and arrangements for ordering changes in computing systems
    Patent number: 7496912
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for automatically determining allowable sequences of changes, e.g., sequences where the order in which changes are carried out will transition a computing system from a workable state into another workable state, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Keller, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Vijaya Krishnan, Joel L. Wolf, Kun-Lung Wu
  • Methods and arrangements for automated change plan construction and impact analysis
    Patent number: 7484212
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for operating distributed computing systems, and more particularly, to techniques for constructing and analyzing change plans are disclosed. Included are an arrangement for submitting a request for change to the system, an arrangement for specifying the order in which tasks execute in compliance with data and temporal dependency constraints; and an arrangement for creating a change plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph L. Hellerstein, Alexander Keller, Vijaya Krishnan, Joel L. Wolf, Kun-Lung Wu
  • Methods and arrangements for planning and scheduling change management requests in computing systems
    Publication number: 20050204358
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for planning and scheduling change management requests in computing systems are disclosed. Included are an arrangement for deciding whether or not an RFC should be done, an arrangement for assigning individual tasks to acceptable servers for each RFC to be done, and an arrangement for assigning the start times to said individual tasks for each RFC to be done.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Hellerstein, Alexander Keller, Vijaya Krishnan, Joel Wolf, Kun-Lung Wu
  • Methods and arrangements for ordering changes in computing systems
    Publication number: 20050192979
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for automatically determining allowable sequences of changes, e.g., sequences where the order in which changes are carried out will transition a computing system from a workable state into another workable state, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Keller, Joseph Hellerstein, Vijaya Krishnan, Joel Wolf, Kun-Lung Wu
  • Methods and arrangements for automated change plan construction and impact analysis
    Publication number: 20050193381
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for operating distributed computing systems, and more particularly, to techniques for constructing and analyzing change plans are disclosed. Included are an arrangement for submitting a request for change to the system, an arrangement for specifying the order in which tasks execute in compliance with data and temporal dependency constraints; and an arrangement for creating a change plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Hellerstein, Alexander Keller, Vijaya Krishnan, Joel Wolf, Kun-Lung Wu