Digital Equipment Corporation

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.p.

Mark J Seger

Mark W Sylor

Richard L Rosenbaum

Leonard G Fehskens

Sheryl F Namoglu

Linsey B O'Brien

Stanley I Goldfarb

Kenneth W Chapman

Robert C Schuchard

G Paul Koning

Colin Strutt

Jeffrey R Harrow

Ruth E Kohls

Jill F Callander

David L Aronson

Dennis O Rogers

Danny L Smith

Matthew J Guertin

Timothy M Dixon

Benjamin M England

Philip John Trasatti

Arundahati G Sankar

Steven K Wong

Robert R Ross

Kathy J Nelson

Allan B Moore

Peter H Burgess

James L Lemmon, Jr

Christine C Chan-Lizardo

William C Adams, Jr

Gerard R Plouffe

Anil V Navkal

Larry W Emlich

Russell L Myers

Gerhard K Heider

Ruth E J Kohls

Michael C Li

Bruce H Luhrs

Jeffrey L Gardiner

Michael R Masters

Harlo A Peterson

Frank M Robbins

Kathy Jo Nelson

Robert R N Ross

Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for monitoring windows on computers. In one embodiment, movement of a mouse or cursor in a focused window of the computer is analyzed to determine whether an application is properly executing in the computer.

Monitoring of windows on computers

A system for managing an assemblage of entities. The entities interface within the assemblage for control of primary information handling functions and further interface with the system to permit the carrying out of management functions. The system includes management modules adapted to carry out management functions by independently interpreting and executing commands and a kernel including a table of dispatch pointers for directing the commands to the respective modules in which they are to be interpreted and executed. In addition, the system includes storage containing domain information defining groups of entities, where the kernel may issue a command to a group by issuing individual commands to appropriate modules.

Entity management system

A system for managing an assemblage of entities. The entities interface within the assemblage for control of primary information handling functions and further interface with the system to permit the carrying out of management functions. The system includes management modules adapted to carry out management functions by independently interpreting and executing commands, a kernel including a table of dispatch pointers for directing the commands to the respective modules in which they are to be interpreted and executed, and an enroller for enrolling new modules into the system by adding further pointers to the table. In addition, the system includes: a module adapted to independently interpret and execute selected management-related commands; stored records relating to accessed management information, each record indicating an associated time; an information manager, responsive to commands having a time schedule, for retrieving information from the records or accessing information from the entities, including a scheduler for issuing subsidiary accesses or retrievals at possibly multiple times according to the schedule; storage containing domain information defining groups of entities, where the kernel may issue a commands to a group by issuing individual commands to appropriate modules; a common command syntax including fields for identifying the entity and the operation to be performed; a module that stores rules identifying alarm conditions, including a generator for generating rules and an alarm detector for detecting an alarm condition in response to the rules; a module adapted to carry out self-management functions by interpreting and executing commands.

A method of managing faults in a computer system including the steps of detecting an error, handling the error along a functional hierarchy and, further, handling a fault that caused the error in a management hierarchy which can be operated separately from the functional hierarchy.

Generic fault management of a computer system

Extensible entity management system including a dispatching kernel and

Extensible entity management system including rule-based alarms

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Harvard, MA, United States of America

Mark J Seger