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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2001
Christopher A. Atwood, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yousef R. Yacoub, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric R. Reid, Richland, MI (US);
James C. Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Angelo Rajadurai, Attleboro, MA (US);
Prashant Srinivasan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mehdi Ghazizadeh, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher A. Atwood, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yousef R. Yacoub, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric R. Reid, Richland, MI (US);
James C. Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Angelo Rajadurai, Attleboro, MA (US);
Prashant Srinivasan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mehdi Ghazizadeh, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of rating a bug, including reporting the bug to a business entity by an interested party, entering information regarding the bug into a database, assigning a priority number for the bug, calculating a sigma number for the bug using the priority number, evaluating the bug to be fixed using the sigma number, and escalating the bug. A bug council rating apparatus, including a database to store the information entered using a graphical user interface, a priority number module configured to generate a priority number, and a sigma number module configured to generate a sigma number.