WILLIAM GABRIEL PAGAN
Pilots at Hamilton Grn Dr, Durham, NC

2008010, May 8, 2008

Nov 6, 2006

11/556857

Gabriel A. Cohen - Durham NC, US
William G. Pagan - Durham NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/00

463 32, 463 29, 463 43

Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to embedded ad placements and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for intelligent ad placements for video gaming. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for intelligent ad integration for video gaming can be provided. The method can include monitoring a video game supported by computing resources to detect events in the video game, measuring performance of the computing resources in the detected events, associating advertisements with the events based upon the measured performance of the computing resources for the detected events, and presenting the associated advertisements in association with the video game. Notably, monitoring a video game to detect events in the video game can include monitoring user activities, game activities, and computing environment attributes to detect events related to user actions, game actions and computing environment attributes, respectively, in the video game.

2009009, Apr 16, 2009

Oct 11, 2007

11/870634

Aaron E. Merkin - Holly Springs NC, US
William G. Pagan - Durham NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06Q 30/00, G01C 21/00, G06F 17/30, G06F 17/40

705 14, 701118

A system and method for counting vehicle traffic, for providing electronic advertising, for providing a billing system, and for providing an auction system having the following features: enabling the owner of an electronic advertising display device to charge advertisers per number of vehicles which pass the advertisement; enabling advertisers to bid to have their respective advertisement shown for a particular congestion level and dynamically changing the advertisement shown; cycling through a series of advertisements and based on calculated average vehicle speed; determining how many of the advertisements were likely viewed by the occupants of a vehicle; and calculating the average number of viewers of the advertisements.

2011005, Mar 10, 2011

Sep 10, 2009

12/556685

Keith M. Campbell - Cary NC, US
William G. Pagan - Durham NC, US
Marc V. Stracuzza - Durham NC, US
Michael N. Womack - Raleigh NC, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - ARMONK NY

H04K 1/00, H04L 9/08

380270, 380278

Secure communication of information over a wireless link with apparatus including a blade management module and a plurality of blade servers, the blade servers connected for data communications with the blade management module through at least one wired link, the blade servers also connected for data communications with the blade management module through at least one wireless link, including sharing an encryption key between the blade management module and one or more of the blade servers only through the at least one wired link connecting the blade management module to the one or more blade servers; encrypting information by the blade management module with the encryption key; transmitting the encrypted information by the blade management module to the one or more blade servers through the at least one wireless link; and decrypting the encrypted information by the blade server with the encryption key.

2011010, May 5, 2011

Nov 4, 2009

12/612013

Michael H. Nolterieke - Raleigh NC, US
William G. Pagan - Durham NC, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

G06F 9/44, G06F 15/16

709204, 717173

Propagating firmware updates in a peer-to-peer network including identifying, that one or more nodes in the network have firmware that is uplevel with respect to the downlevel node; broadcasting an update request requesting an update to the firmware; receiving, from a plurality of nodes having firmware uplevel with respect to the downlevel node, a plurality of portions of the update, metadata describing each portion of the update received, and metadata describing the firmware installed on each of the plurality of nodes having firmware uplevel with respect to the downlevel node; determining, in dependence upon the metadata describing each portion of the update received and the metadata describing the firmware installed on each of the plurality of nodes having firmware uplevel with respect to the downlevel node, whether the portions of the update received comprise an entire update; and updating the firmware if the portions of the update received comprise the entire update.

2013021, Aug 15, 2013

Mar 27, 2013

13/851227

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - , US
William G. Pagan - Durham NC, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

G06F 15/173

709224

Dynamically balancing resources in a server farm, where the server farm includes servers organized in functional server groups with the servers in each functional server group assigned a same type of data processing task, the servers operatively coupled to data storage through a packet switching fabric, the servers operatively coupled to a system management server, and the balancing of resources includes: monitoring, by a resource balancing module of the system management server, CPU utilization in at least one of the functional server groups; identifying, by the resource balancing module in dependence upon the monitored CPU utilization, an overburdened functional server group, the overburdened functional server group's CPU utilization exceeding a CPU overburden threshold; and increasing, by the resource balancing module, CPU resources of the overburdened functional server group, including moving a transfer server from a source functional server group into the overburdened functional server group.

2010011, May 6, 2010

Oct 31, 2008

12/262296

Eric R. Kern - Chapel Hill NC, US
William G. Pagan - Durham NC, US
Marc V. Stracuzza - Durham NC, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

G06F 9/455, G06F 1/26

718 1

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for power optimization via virtualization opportunity determination. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for power optimization via virtualization opportunity determination can be provided. The method can include monitoring power utilization in individual server hosts in a cluster and determining a set of the server hosts in the cluster demonstrating low power utilization. The method also can include selecting a subset of server hosts in the set and migrating each VM in non-selected server hosts in the set to the subset of server hosts. Finally, the method can include powering down the non-selected server hosts.

2014007, Mar 13, 2014

Dec 13, 2012

13/713016

Shunrong Hu - Shanghai, CN
William G. Pagan - Durham NC, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

H04L 29/08

713 2

A method initializes a federated computer system from a fabric of nodes connected by a federated interface. Each node casts a vote to the federated interface for a candidate firmware version supported by the node casting the vote. The candidate firmware version having received the greatest number of votes is identified, and the computer system is initialized as a federated system of the nodes that support the firmware version identified as having received the greatest number of votes. A process of iterative voting may be used to identify a greater number of nodes supporting a compatible firmware version.

2012029, Nov 22, 2012

May 19, 2011

13/111470

Mark Molander - Research Triangle Park NC, US
William G. Pagan - Research Triangle Park NC, US
Devon Snyder - Research Triangle Park NC, US
Patrick Bohrer - Austin TX, US
Todd Eischeid - Research Triangle Park NC, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

G06F 3/048

715765

A method for providing control signals may include, but is not limited to: detecting a first user input associated with at least one graphical user interface element; transmitting one or more control signals associated with the at least one graphical user interface element in response to the first user input; detecting a second user input associated with a grouping of two or more graphical user interface elements; and transmitting one or more control signals associated with the grouping of two or more graphical user interface elements in response to the second user input.

2012027, Oct 25, 2012

Jul 3, 2012

13/541422

Michael H. Nolterieke - Raleigh NC, US
William G. Pagan - Durham NC, US
Edward S. Suffern - Chapel Hill NC, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

G06F 9/455

718 1

A method includes running a plurality of virtual machine workloads across a plurality of servers within a common power domain, and setting an operating level for each of a plurality of hardware resources within the common power domain in response to receiving an early power off warning from a power source that supplies power to the common power domain, wherein the operating level for each of the hardware resources is determined as a function of the priority of the virtual machine workloads that are utilizing each of the hardware resources.

8037364, Oct 11, 2011

Jan 9, 2009

12/351078

Eric Richard Kern - Chapel Hill NC, US
William Gabriel Pagan - Durham NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 11/00

714 471, 714 11, 714 472

A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for managing failover of Management Modules (MMs) in a blade chassis are presented. Each server blade in the blade chassis evaluates a performance of a primary MM. If a threshold number of server blades determine that the primary MM is not meeting pre-determined minimum performance standards, then a secondary MM impeaches the primary MM and takes over the management of the server blades.