Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7007104 | Method and apparatus for integrated network management and systems management in communications networks A computer system includes a gateway which provides integration between a network management platform and a system management platform. Such a gateway facilitates sharing of network management and system management events and alarms, as well as sharing of network ma... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6421719 | Method and apparatus for reactive and deliberative configuration management Configuration management of managed objects is performed based upon performance data. Configuration management is performed on varying levels according to the amount of interpretation of the performance data that is required. A new configuration for an ob... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6374293 | Network management system using model-based intelligence A network management system includes a user interface, a virtual network and a device communication manager. The virtual network includes models which represent network entities and model relations which represent relations between network entities. Each ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6373383 | Method and apparatus for policy-based alarm notification in a distributed network management environment Apparatus and method for receiving alarms from multiple network management servers and applying a plurality of policy-based filters to the alarms. The filters may be named and stored in a database, and application of the policy-based filters may be schedu... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6349306 | Method and apparatus for configuration management in communications networks Apparatus and method for monitoring parameters that govern the operational characteristics of a network device, including the use of templates for generating configuration records of network devices of a selected model type. A database of models is provid... | 02/19/2002 |
