Frederick H Hunter

US Patent:

6369820, Apr 9, 2002

Filed:

Jun 2, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/088525

Inventors:

Randal Lee Bertram - Raleigh NC
Frederick Scott Hunter Krauss - Raleigh NC
Margherita LaFauci - Holly Springs NC
Thomas John Sluchak - Apex NC

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1500

US Classification:

345440, 345736, 709223, 709224

Abstract:

A system and method for graphically displaying data from a plurality of selected data sets on a computer system including a display is disclosed. Each selected data set has a plurality of values corresponding to a plurality of parameter values. The method and system include determining a plurality of average values for a plurality of intervals. The plurality of average values are determined for each selected data set. Each of the plurality of average values is determined from a portion of the plurality of values. The portion of the plurality of values correspond to an interval of the plurality of intervals. Each of the plurality of intervals includes a portion of the plurality of parameter values. The method and system further include plotting the average value for each of the plurality of intervals on the display for each selected data set. The average value is depicted as a first symbol.

US Patent:

6470464, Oct 22, 2002

Filed:

Feb 23, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/255680

Inventors:

Randal Lee Bertram - Raleigh NC
Frederick Scott Hunter Krauss - Raleigh NC
Gregory J. McKnight - Chapel Hill NC

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

H02H 305

US Classification:

714 37, 713100, 702186, 707 2

Abstract:

A system and method of monitoring and analyzing the performance of a computer system and its components in a data processing network and for proposing changes to the network to improve the performance. The system involves identifying undesirable conditions (sometimes called bottlenecks) in the system, determining which bottlenecks are the most severe in affecting the performance of the system and in proposing changes to the components of the system to improve performance of the network. The present invention uses historical data and forecasting techniques to predict bottlenecks which have not occurred yet but which can be expected, so that further bottlenecks can be projected, along with a prediction interval to indicate the confidence of the prediction. The further projections and the prediction interval are provided in a graph which is available to the user over the Internet, if desired, using HTML and hot links.

US Patent:

6667743, Dec 23, 2003

Filed:

Jan 31, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/062043

Inventors:

Randal Lee Bertram - Raleigh NC
Frederick Scott Hunter Krauss - Raleigh NC
Margherita LaFauci - Holly Springs NC
Thomas John Sluchak - Apex NC

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06T 1120

US Classification:

345440, 3454402, 345736, 709223

Abstract:

A system and method for graphically displaying data from a plurality of selected data sets on a computer system including a display is disclosed. Each selected data set has a plurality of values corresponding to a plurality of parameter values. The method and system include determining a plurality of average values for a plurality of intervals. The plurality of average values are determined for each selected data set. Each of the plurality of average values is determined from a portion of the plurality of values. The portion of the plurality of values correspond to an interval of the plurality of intervals. Each of the plurality of intervals includes a portion of the plurality of parameter values. The method and system further include plotting the average value for each of the plurality of intervals on the display for each selected data set. The average value is depicted as a first symbol.

US Patent:

7188156, Mar 6, 2007

Filed:

Mar 20, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/392654

Inventors:

Randal Lee Bertram - Raleigh NC, US
Dawn Ashley Comfort - Raleigh NC, US
Frederick Scott Hunter Krauss - Raleigh NC, US
James C. Cook - Georgetown KY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 13/00

US Classification:

709219, 719328, 345736

Abstract:

Disclosed are embodiments of a method, a system and a computer program product for selecting data to be presented in a report form. A selector window is displayed to a user, the selector window displaying periods of time for indicating those periods of time for which data is available. The periods of time are displayed as a stack of temporally aligned time lines that are each partitioned into time periods of different duration, where each partition of a given time line has a spatial extent that differs from the spatial extent of partitions of other time lines, with longer partitions encompassing a plurality of shorter partitions. In response to the user selecting a point on a time line, the method, system and computer program product displays a report of that data. The method, system and computer program product further display a partition within a time line to comprise a visual indicator to indicate the occurrence of at least one event of interest that occurred during the time that corresponds to that partition. The data may represent computer system performance metric data that includes rolled-up data, and an absence of a displayed partition indicates to the user that the corresponding data is not available.

US Patent:

60880309, Jul 11, 2000

Filed:

Apr 21, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/063914

Inventors:

Randal Lee Bertram - Raleigh NC
Frederick Scott Hunter Krauss - Raleigh NC
Margherita LaFauci - Holly Springs NC

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1500

US Classification:

345349

Abstract:

Described is a mapping function and Graphic User Interface (GUI) for use in an interactive computer system. The GUI is generated by a computer program and includes a view of events or objects associated icons and graphical representations of the objects. A different symbol is overlaid on each icon and a common symbol is overlaid on the graph that relates to the object and associated icon. Consequently, mapping is provided between the objects and graph lines and a viewer can easily associate an object with its associated graph.

US Patent:

61443794, Nov 7, 2000

Filed:

Nov 20, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/975144

Inventors:

Randal Lee Bertram - Raleigh NC
Frederick Scott Hunter Krauss - Raleigh NC
Margherita LaFauci - Holly Springs NC

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1300
G06T 1120

US Classification:

345348

Abstract:

A computer managed communication network with user interactive access via a plurality of display terminals and including a plurality of linked network objects with a system for managing said network in which values of a selected parameter are sensed respectively for each of a plurality of selected objects and stored. The stored data is presented in a graph display including a plurality of icons, each icon representing aspects of said values with respect to one of said selected objects. User interactive means for selecting one of said icons are provided together with means responsive to said selecting means for graphically presenting other aspects of said values. In the monitoring of networks, the invention may be used to track network servers which are monitored via a distribution graph in which icons representative of servers are linked to more detailed line graphs of such servers showing the changes in parameter values versus a time line parameter.