Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8108183 | System and method for load testing a web-based application A computer-based method for load testing a web application. The computer-based method includes selecting one or more uniform resource locator (URL) parameters, identifying the selected parameters by parameter type, and loading the web application with URLs created b... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103480 | Evaluating service level agreement violations A technique for evaluating service level agreement (SLA) violations occurring in a computing system with agreed-upon model for exemptions is provided. The technique includes storing in a memory a model of the SLA and identifying occurrence of an SLA violation in a c... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103479 | Two dimensional exponential smoothing A method of estimating the average response time and average I/O size that can be used as an alternative for or addition to existing response time and I/O estimation techniques. One method involves initializing values for an average response time and an average I/O ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095339 | Integrated portable electronics tester A device and method for testing the functionality of various electronic device components. The device is portable and is capable of being upgraded with changes in technology. The device is enclosed within a housing, which may include a power supply and a display. Th... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8060342 | Self-learning integrity management system and related methods An integrity management system predicts abnormalities in complex systems before they occur based upon the prior history of abnormalities within the complex system. A topology of the nodes of a complex system is generated and data is collected from the system based o... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055477 | Identifying deterministic performance boost capability of a computer system A benchmark tester retrieves a voltage margin that corresponds to a device that a system includes. The voltage margin indicates an additional amount of voltage to apply to a nominal voltage that, when added, results in the device operating at a power limit while exe... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046195 | Performance testing of enterprise service bus Performance of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is measured using a service deployed on a server. A client runs a compiler to add an aspect to an archive that provides a service when deployed to the server. The aspect causes the server to timestamp marked messages. T... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041543 | Input/output workload analysis method and system for a storage area network A system and method of input/output (I/O) workload analysis of the components in a storage area network (SAN) are disclosed. In one embodiment, I/O workloads of components in the SAN are analyzed by determining host bus adapter (HBA) port to storage port oversubscri... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032331 | Detection of airflow anomalies in electronic equipment Thermal diagnostic systems and methods are provided for improved detection of airflow anomalies in a computer system. In particular, processor load is selectively increased to amplify the effects caused by any airflow anomaly that may be present in the computer syst... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027808 | Methods and systems for estimating throughput of a simultaneous multi-threading processor Methods and systems are disclosed for determining a CPU usage adjustment factor and for automatically applying the CPU usage adjustment factor to provide a CPU usage estimate for an SMT processor. In one implementation, the methods and systems obtain samples of CPU ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8014976 | Secure digital forensics A security module is used to perform an audit of both a computer memory and the computer's processor status. The security module may assert itself as a bus master to read the computer memory without dependence on a program running on the computer. In addition, using... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7991588 | Power consumption measurement The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes transitioning an electrical load from a primary power supply to an alternative power supply, measuring power drawn from the alternative power supply, transitionin... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7970584 | Performance abnormality analysis apparatus, method, and program, and analysis result display method for performance abnormality analysis apparatus In determining a condition of a case under which the occurrence rate of the performance abnormality is high based on information related to a resource utilization situation acquired in a resource utilization situation acquisition step and an occurrence frequency of ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962314 | Mechanism for profiling program software running on a processor A processor having one or more processor cores includes execution logic that may execute instructions including one or more processes. Each process may include one or more execution threads. The processor also includes a profiling mechanism that includes monitor log... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7941296 | Benchmarking and gap analysis system and method A computer-implemented method is provided for creating a peer unit and comparing that peer unit to a target unit in order to determine the difference in performance between the target unit and a peer unit. The peer unit is a hypothetical construct of user-defined pe... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933745 | System and method for profiling resource constraints of web servers Disclosed is a method and system for determining one or more performance characteristics of a target server. A command is transmitted from a coordinator to a plurality of clients. The command instructs the plurality of clients to each transmit a request targeting a ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930143 | Systems and methods for sensor-based computing Various embodiments of the invention provide devices, methods and systems, including without limitation data acquisition systems, that can provide flexible sensing and/or data acquisition solutions. An exemplary sensing device, which may be in communication with one... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925473 | Method and apparatus for analyzing idle states in a data processing system A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to collect information for a system or processor having a transition between an idle state and a non-idle state to form collected system or processor information. The collected system or proc... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7908119 | System and method for automating the analysis of computer system load testing A method for analyzing load run test results of a computer system includes providing a plurality of performance measure sets derived from a first series of load run tests performed over a same time period. Each set comprises a plurality of records and each record ha... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904278 | Methods and system for program execution integrity measurement The present disclosure is directed towards methods and systems and methods for measuring the integrity of an operating system's execution and ensuring that the system's code is performing its intended functionality. This includes examining the integrity of the code ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7890298 | Managing the performance of a computer system Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that manages a performance of a computer system. During operation, a current expert policy in a set of expert policies is executed, wherein the expert policy manages one or more aspects of the performance of... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7881906 | Method, system and computer program product for event-based sampling to monitor computer system performance A system, method and computer program product for event-based sampling to monitor computer system performance are provided. The system includes a sample buffer to store a sample of instrumentation data, where the instrumentation data enables measurement of computer ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7865335 | System and methods for integrating authoring with complexity analysis for computing system operation procedures Techniques are disclosed for integrating complexity analysis with procedure authoring (design and/or documentation). By way of example, a technique for authoring a procedure associated with a computing system operation based on a complexity analysis associated with ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7831412 | Systems and methods for providing guidance by category on the potential impact of an application on the health of a computing system Embodiments of the instant disclosure may provide users with access to information that details, by application category, the potential impact an application may have on the health of a user's computing device. A method for determining the impact of a new applicatio... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7813897 | Method for measuring quantity of usage of CPU The present invention relates to a method for measuring a quantity of usage of a CPU, in particular to a method for measuring a quantity of usage of a CPU which is capable of getting a credible quantity of usage of a CPU without amending an algorithm in order to ada... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7801703 | Self-learning integrity management system and related methods An integrity management system predicts abnormalities in complex systems before they occur based upon the prior history of abnormalities within the complex system. A topology of the nodes of a complex system is generated and data is collected from the system based o... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797135 | Method and apparatus for correcting the time of recordal of a series of recordings A process for correcting the time stamp of recordings such as photographs, obtained in many locations. An onboard clock records a time stamp for each photograph. GPS tracking data is obtained during movement of the camera. A time correction is sought, to account for... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7797136 | Metrics to evaluate process objects A method and system to evaluate process objects for acceptability for use. New metrics that measure both object components and their relationships are used. The method selects metrics for the process objects that measure both the components and their relationships, ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7797134 | System and method for testing a memory with an expansion card using DMA A computer system that includes a processor, a memory controller coupled to the processor, a memory coupled to the memory controller, a first input/output (I/O) controller coupled to the memory controller, a first expansion slot coupled to the first I/O controller, ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7778801 | Automated test script for communications server For use in a communication system having at least one enterprise server for facilitating communications and delivery of services to users of handheld mobile communication devices and an administrative program for managing the enterprise server, the improvement compr... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7769735 | System, service, and method for characterizing a business intelligence workload for sizing a new database system hardware configuration A workload characterization system characterizes an exemplary business intelligence workload for use in sizing a hardware configuration required by a new database system running a similar business intelligence workload. The workload characterization system uses perf... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7765087 | System performance profiling device integrated inside a system-on-chip A system performance profiling device is provided inside a system-on-chip (SoC). Selectors respectively select values of predetermined bit positions of counters and output the selected values to the outside of the system-on-chip, during a period of acquisition of pr... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7752016 | System and method for data analysis A system includes a monitoring system that provides at least one signal as a function of at least some data provided on a bus. A measure of performance for the at least some data is adjusted based on the at least one signal. An analysis system is operative to perfor... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747414 | Run-Time performance verification system A method and apparatus that allow packet based communication transactions between devices over an interconnect bus to be captured to measure performance. Performance metrics may be determined by capturing events at various locations as they pass through the system. ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7725296 | Estimating processor usage Methods and systems are disclosed for determining a processor usage adjustment factor and for automatically applying the processor usage adjustment factor to provide an accurate processor usage estimate for an SMT processor. In one implementation, the methods and sy... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720643 | Estimating processor usage Methods and systems are disclosed for determining a processor usage adjustment factor and for automatically applying the processor usage adjustment factor to provide an accurate processor usage estimate for an SMT processor. In one implementation, the methods and sy... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716016 | Method and apparatus for automatic uncertainty-based management feedback controller Improved management feedback-based controller techniques are disclosed for use in accordance with a computing system. For example, a method for managing a computing system includes the following steps. At least one measured performance metric is obtained from the co... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7698106 | System and method for benchmarking correlated stream processing systems A system, method, and computer program product for benchmarking a stream processing system are disclosed. The method comprises generating a plurality of correlated test streams. A semantically related data set is embedded within each of the test streams in the plura... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693687 | Controller and method to mediate data collection from smart sensors for fab applications The present invention relates to control of and data collection from sensors associated with tools. In particular, it relates to using a controller to mediate communications among a tool, sensors associated with the tool and data users, such as a host system or dist... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7684962 | Hardware/software capability rating system Techniques and tools for rating computer products are described. For example, software ratings are based on subjective evaluations to determine computer system requirements for a positive user experience, while a computer running a capability tool rates a computer s... | 03/23/2010 |
