Christopher D Atwood

US Patent:

20030066049, Apr 3, 2003

Filed:

Oct 3, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/970281

Inventors:

Christopher Atwood - Santa Clara CA, US
Yousef Yacoub - San Jose CA, US
Eric Reid - Richland MI, US
James Liu - Sunnyvale CA, US
Angelo Rajadurai - Attleboro MA, US
Prashant Srinivasan - Mountain View CA, US
Mehdi Ghazizadeh - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06F009/44

US Classification:

717/101000

Abstract:

A method of rating a bug, including reporting the bug to a business entity by an interested party, entering information regarding the bug into a database, assigning a priority number for the bug, calculating a sigma number for the bug using the priority number, evaluating the bug to be fixed using the sigma number, and escalating the bug. A bug council rating apparatus, including a database to store the information entered using a graphical user interface, a priority number module configured to generate a priority number, and a sigma number module configured to generate a sigma number.