Christopher T Mitchell

US Patent:

6915341, Jul 5, 2005

Filed:

Jan 8, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/041379

Inventors:

Jason R. McGee - Morrisville NC, US
Christopher C. Mitchell - Raleigh NC, US
Michael J. Morton - Cary NC, US
Brent A. Peters - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F015/173

US Classification:

709223, 709203, 709206, 714 48, 715733

Abstract:

A system of selectively sending messages to clients interacting with a server in a distributed network computing environment. The message is sent from the system administrator to the users by posting a message to a server, detecting receipt at the server of requests for data from users, and sending the message to the users in response to received requests from the users.

US Patent:

7051117, May 23, 2006

Filed:

Jul 25, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/202791

Inventors:

Jason R. McGee - Apex NC, US
Christopher C. Mitchell - Raleigh NC, US
Michael John Morton - Cary NC, US
Brent A. Peters - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709245, 709203, 709217, 709218, 709219, 715530

Abstract:

A smart bookmark article of manufacture can include both a network address pointing to the network location of content specifying a form; and, one or more field references, each field reference corresponding to fields specified in the form. The smart bookmark article of manufacture also can include at least one field attribute corresponding to at least one of the field references.

US Patent:

7318070, Jan 8, 2008

Filed:

Mar 11, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/799301

Inventors:

Jason Robert McGee - Apex NC, US
Christopher C. Mitchell - Raleigh NC, US
Leigh Allen Williamson - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30
G06F 9/44

US Classification:

7071041, 707 10, 707203, 717168

Abstract:

A method, apparatus and computer instructions are disclosed for maintaining the compatibility of a multiple nodes in a distributed systems management environment with multiple configuration settings, by transforming the configuration data stored in the master repository (one possible realization is where XML documents contain the configuration data) from one version of the product to a previous version of the product. For multiple versions of the systems management environment, a transformation pipeline process (one possible realization of such a process may utilize XSLT) can be used by a “master” node to transform the configuration data multiple times for each version of the environment, until the configuration data has the format of the intended recipient “slave” node. Also, by performing the transformation process on the “master” side of the computing environment, “slave” nodes with older version configuration settings can continue to operate without having to upgrade their software applications in this regard.

US Patent:

7337349, Feb 26, 2008

Filed:

Jun 30, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/881596

Inventors:

Brent Hames Daniel - Morrisville NC, US
Michael Peter Etgen - Cary NC, US
Christopher Creighton Mitchell - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 11/00

US Classification:

714 4, 714 47, 714 48, 714 57

Abstract:

System, method and computer program product for monitoring the status of components in a data processing system that improves the accessibility of JMX monitoring information in web content. The system includes a mechanism for acquiring a text representation of component status for display as ALT and TITLE content associated with each status image. Because the component status is displayed in a manner that is indistinguishable from ALT/TITLE text that has already been statically included in an image attribute, user experience is improved for users with and without accessibility needs.

US Patent:

7444633, Oct 28, 2008

Filed:

Mar 5, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/795007

Inventors:

Joseph A. Bohn - Durham NC, US
Kathryn H. Britton - Chapel Hill NC, US
Samar Choudhary - Morrisville NC, US
Jason R. McGee - Apex NC, US
Christopher C. Mitchell - Raleigh NC, US
Elizabeth A. Schreiber - Cary NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 9/455
G06F 9/46
G06F 3/00

US Classification:

718100, 718 1, 718104, 719312, 719313, 719319, 719330

Abstract:

Content from multiple remote/legacy consoles is aggregated within a central console to provide a single point-of-access for managing remote resources. Preferred embodiments deploy the central console as a network-accessible application, and this console application communicates with remotely-located console applications (and/or other locally-executing functions) that carry out tasks selected from the central console by an administrator and then return content generated by those tasks for rendering in the central console. The run-time environment used at the central console is not required to match the run-time environment of the remote/legacy consoles.

US Patent:

7480895, Jan 20, 2009

Filed:

Nov 24, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/721818

Inventors:

David N. Brauneis - Raleigh NC, US
Christopher C. Mitchell - Raleigh NC, US
Brent H. Daniel - Morrisville NC, US
Richard A. Backhouse - Apex NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 9/44
G06F 15/16

US Classification:

717120, 709201

Abstract:

A computer implemented method is provided to increase the efficiency of the development of JAVA™ Enterprise Edition (J2EE™ ) applications. A project may be divided into modules which may be developed by independent teams. The files within each module are classified as independent of resources in other modules or dependent. Independent files may be packaged into a single, integrated web application archive (WAR) file without further processing. Corresponding dependent files are compared and any conflicts are resolved. The resulting files may then be packaged into the WAR file.

US Patent:

7493563, Feb 17, 2009

Filed:

Mar 5, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/795008

Inventors:

Joseph A. Bohn - Durham NC, US
Kathryn H. Britton - Chapel Hill NC, US
Samar Choudhary - Morrisville NC, US
Donald F. Ferguson - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Carol A. Jones - Raleigh NC, US
Richard A. King - Cary NC, US
Jason R. McGee - Apex NC, US
Christopher C. Mitchell - Raleigh NC, US
Vijay Pandiarajan - Morrisville NC, US
Douglas R. Petty - Rochester MN, US
Elizabeth A. Schreiber - Cary NC, US
Timothy G. Shortley - Raleigh NC, US
Shikha Srivastava - Cary NC, US
John W. Sweitzer - Austin TX, US
Robert T. Uthe - Morrisville NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

715736, 715738, 709218, 709222, 709224

Abstract:

Content aggregation is used to build administration consoles. Preferred embodiments enable providing a solution-based approach to information technology (“IT”) administration, whereby content can be flexibly arranged to provide a content view that is adapted for the IT solution deployed in a particular IT environment. In preferred embodiments, portal technology is used for the aggregation framework, and portlets are used for creating content. Alternatively, other approaches such as struts and tiles may be used. Preferred embodiments deploy an administration console as a Web-accessible application, and this console consolidates the administration interfaces for an arbitrary set of management operations, including administration of an arbitrary collection of hardware and/or software resources. Roles/permissions may be used when rendering content for the console, thereby customizing a view to individual end users (or user groups).

US Patent:

7509413, Mar 24, 2009

Filed:

Nov 24, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/721819

Inventors:

Brent H. Daniel - Morrisville NC, US
Michael P. Etgen - Cary NC, US
Christopher C. Mitchell - Raleigh NC, US
David N. Brauneis - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/00
G06F 17/00

US Classification:

709224, 709202, 714 4, 714 47, 714 48, 714 57, 715513, 715760

Abstract:

A method, system and computer program product are provided to allow the status of components obtained through JMX queries to be loaded asynchronously in web content such that the status value of each component is displayed as soon as it becomes available, without having to wait for the completion of any other query.