| COMPUWARE CORPORATION Patent applications |
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| 20110320540 | SERVICE MODEL CREATION USING MONITORED DATA OF THE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT TOOL - An automated method is provided for constructing or updating a service model that defines the entities in an enterprise's computing environment. The method includes: defining a group of templates for updating the service model, where the group of templates identify different types of entities which comprise the service model and relationships between the types of entities including an entity that links software applications to respective computing infrastructure that supports the software applications; monitoring messages received from monitoring tools residing in the computing environment; and updating a service model in accordance with the group of templates using data encapsulated in the messages. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110307590 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A BUSINESS CALENDAR ACROSS A SHARED COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE - A method of scheduling availability for a computing infrastructure in a shared computing environment is disclosed. The method comprises assigning a new schedule of service to a software application in the computing environment, propagating the new schedule of service assigned to the software application to a plurality of computing components that support the software application, where the computing infrastructure is comprised of the plurality of computing components having a hierarchical relationship with each other, and determining a schedule of service for a given computing component in the computing infrastructure by aggregating schedules of service propagated to the given computing component. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110302294 | SERVICE QUALITY EVALUATOR HAVING ADAPTIVE EVALUATION CRITERIA - An improved method is provided for evaluating service quality of a software application residing in a computing environment. The method includes: monitoring first and second metrics indicative of performance of the software application; evaluating the first metric in relation to a first evaluation criterion; evaluating the second metric in relation to a second evaluation criterion different than the first evaluation criterion; and determining the state of service for the software application based in part on the evaluation of the second metric. Over time, the second evaluation criterion is adapted based on the outcome of the evaluation of the first metric. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110213985 | TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION SCHEME - An improved method is provided for generating an authentication factor for authenticating a user. The method includes: assigning a unique identifier to a user of the computing resource; determining a value for a challenge to the user, where the value is determined by a random determination method; concatenating the identifier with the value to form an input string; encrypting the input string using a one-way hash function to yield an output string of characters; and selecting a subset of characters from the output string to serve as the authentication factor for the user. This improved method may be used to generate grids used in a grid authentication scheme. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110196936 | Computer System Tools and Method for Development and Testing - The current invention allows a user to evaluate web pages, emails, or software across different operating systems without requiring the user to have the operating system being tested. The patent has a novel method to (1) generate screen captures in parallel, (2) create counter-anti-spam reporting and (3) a method to remotely interact any arbitrary operating system (DVA). | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110055817 | PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT TOOL HAVING UNIFIED ANALYSIS REPORT - An improved method is provided for identifying a cause of a performance problem experienced by an application in a computing environment. To help a user find and isolate the problem quicker, the method proposes a unified performance analysis report that presents the most likely indicators of the source of the performance problem. The report presents performance metrics for the software services used by the application and charts the metric values over time since it is often the change in a metric that indicates a problem. Each metric chart should also include an indicator for the state of service for the application. This will help the user correlate metrics from multiple sources to the time period in which the application experienced a problem. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20100031252 | Method And System For Monitoring The Performance Of An Application And At Least One Storage Device For Storing Code Which Performs The Method - A method and system of monitoring the performance of an application running across multiple virtual machines using thread instance data are provided. The application runs or executes in an environment in which a first thread is processed on a first virtual machine in response to an invocation process and a second thread is processed on a second virtual machine in response to a request to invoke from the first thread. The method includes automatically generating first and second sets of thread instance data. The first set of thread instance data is based on the processing of the first thread and the second set of thread instance data is based on the processing of the second thread. The method also includes correlating the first and second sets of thread instance data to tie the invocation and performance of the processing of the first thread to the performance of the processing of the second thread. The invocation process is followed across the threads of execution of the multiple virtual machines. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20090240720 | Method and system for dynamically controlling functionality of an application program and storage medium for storing instructions which effectuate the method - A method and system for dynamically controlling functionality of an application program and storage medium for storing instructions which effectuate the method are provided The method includes providing a data structure containing modifiable data which indicates current functionality of the application program. The method also includes providing a set of common instructions and first and second sets of optional instructions. The application program has a first functionality when the application program includes the set of common instructions and the first set of optional instructions. The application program has a second functionality different from the first functionality when the application program includes the set of common instructions and the second set of optional instructions. The method further includes modifying the modifiable data if a desired functionality for the application program is different from the current functionality of the application program. The method still further includes causing the application program to include either the first or second set of optional instructions based on the modifiable data to obtain the desired functionality. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20080307269 | Resolution of Computer Operations Problems Using Fault Trend Analysis - A set of fault records representing faults previously detected in an enterprise computer system is received and analyzed. The analysis comprises a variety of analytical operations and results in a report provided to a user, the report particularly including a set of fault sources identified as highly important to address, with respect both to the system as a whole and to particular categories of faults. | 12-11-2008 |
