Patents by Inventor William J. Bannister

William J. Bannister 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).

  • Method and apparatus for analyzing alarm conditions in a networked computing environment
    Patent number: 6263455
    Abstract: Alarm messages for a networked computing environment having multiple elements are analyzed. An alarm message from at least one element of the networked computing environment is received. The received alarm message parsed into a set of segments including a variable text segment. The variable text segment is categorized into a set of tokens. The alarm message is consolidated into an alarm table based on the set of tokens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: AT&T Corp.
    Inventor: William J. Bannister