Patents by Inventor William P. Berriss

William P. Berriss 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).

  • Topology based correlation of threshold crossing alarms
    Patent number: 8423827
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for correlating performance events in a data processing system. A first event is received at one of a first device and a second device of the data processing system, and a second event is received at one of the first device and the second device. A type of a connection between the first device and the second device is identified to form an identified type of connection, and a relationship between the first event and the second event is determined based on the identified type of connection between the first device and the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William P. Berriss, Matthew Duggan, Daniel Martin, David J. Pennell, Sr.
  • TOPOLOGY BASED CORRELATION OF THRESHOLD CROSSING ALARMS
    Publication number: 20110161741
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for correlating performance events in a data processing system. A first event is received at one of a first device and a second device of the data processing system, and a second event is received at one of the first device and the second device. A type of a connection between the first device and the second device is identified to form an identified type of connection, and a relationship between the first event and the second event is determined based on the identified type of connection between the first device and the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William P. Berriss, Matthew Duggan, Daniel Martin, David J. Pennell, SR.
  • Method and apparatus for searching for and retrieving colour images
    Publication number: 20030086627
    Abstract: A method of searching for an image or images corresponding to a query comprises comparing a colour descriptor of the query with stored colour descriptors of each of a collection of reference images, and deriving a matching value indicating the degree of matching between the query and a reference image using the query and reference descriptors, and classifying the reference images by said matching value, each colour descriptor including an indication of one or more dominant colours within the corresponding query or reference image, wherein at least one of the query descriptor and a reference descriptor indicates two or more dominant colours, so that the corresponding descriptor comprises a plurality of subdescriptors, each subdescriptor relating to at least one dominant colour in the corresponding query or reference image, the method comprising deriving the matching value by considering a subset of the dominant colours in either the query or reference descriptor or both using a subdescriptor of either the quer
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2002
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Inventors: William P. Berriss, Miroslaw Z. Bober