Stephen N Owen

US Patent:

6625590, Sep 23, 2003

Filed:

Aug 10, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/371446

Inventors:

David De-Hui Chen - Cary NC
Michael Frederick Gering - Hillsborough NC
Stephen Anton Owen - Raleigh NC
Allen Lewis Springer - Raleigh NC

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1730

US Classification:

707 1, 709223, 709320, 709328, 345740, 345966

Abstract:

A command line interface for a network management platform includes a parser that parses and validates inputs entered at a command line, a command processor that, responsive to validation of a command, causes an operation specified by the command to be performed, and an output facility that presents outputs of the command line interface. The parser preferably enforces a syntax addressing a plurality of attributes of a network device as a tree-like hierarchy including at least two containers. The parser permits network device attributes, which are each contained in at least one container, to be contained by multiple containers of the same type so that such attributes are addressable via a plurality of different access paths. The output facility preferably provides one or more outputs for operations specified by processed input commands, and the one or more outputs preferably include at least one output command specifying a network management operation to be performed. To facilitate entry of valid inputs, the command line interface may be further equipped with an input assistance facility that causes the output facility to present, for a selected network device in the communication network, a prompt for each of a plurality of attribute names that specifies possible attribute values for the plurality of attribute names.

US Patent:

6724408, Apr 20, 2004

Filed:

Aug 10, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/371447

Inventors:

David De-Hui Chen - Cary NC
Michael Frederick Gering - Hillsborough NC
Stephen Anton Owen - Raleigh NC
Allen Lewis Springer - Raleigh NC

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1338

US Classification:

345853, 345854

Abstract:

A command line interface for a data processing system includes an output facility that displays outputs to an operator, a parser that validates inputs entered a command line, a command processor that processes commands validated by the parser. The command line interface preferably supports a prompt mode in which the output facility displays an editable prompt that may be modified by the user to construct a command. In addition, the parser preferably defines separate validation and execution point inputs including at least one validation-only point input, so that inputs are permitted to span multiple input lines and so that atomic sets of commands can be constructed by entering multiple commands on a single input line. The command line interface is also equipped with an in-line help facility that, in response to the parser detecting a help request in a partial command entered at the command line, automatically presents possible input options that can be entered at the command line to complete the partial command.

US Patent:

63246465, Nov 27, 2001

Filed:

Sep 11, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/150977

Inventors:

David De-Hui Chen - Cary NC
Joseph Brendan Kerr - Cary NC
Stephen Anton Owen - Raleigh NC

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1214
G06F 1730
H04L 932

US Classification:

713201

Abstract:

A method and system for securing confidential data in a computer network, wherein the computer network includes a management information database that assists in the management of the computer network. Initially, confidential data are identified within the management information database. Next, particular data objects are associated with the identified confidential data. Thereafter, the identified confidential data are accessed from the management information database. Finally each particular data object and its associated confidential data are automatically converted into a secure data object, in response to accessing the confidential data from the management information database, such that the confidential data may only be understood or altered external to the management information database by converting the secure data object back into the particular data objects and the associated confidential data. The particular data objects may comprise primitive data objects while the secure data object may be composed of an opaque data object. Network management format and conventions may be governed by a network management protocol.

US Patent:

20140155822, Jun 5, 2014

Filed:

Mar 28, 2012

Appl. No.:

14/004381

Inventors:

Gregory Dale Buckner - Cary NC, US
Arun Shankar Veeramani - Glendale CA, US
Stephen B. Owen - Raleigh NC, US
Shaphan R. Jernigan - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

North Carolina State University - Raleigh NC

International Classification:

A61M 25/01

US Classification:

604 9504, 604 9505

Abstract:

An active catheter device is provided. At least one elongate catheter segment includes an elongate flexible tube member defining an axis, and a pair of ferrule members operably engaged with and spaced apart along the tube member. The ferrule members are not rotatable about the axis relative to each other. At least one articulation member is operably engaged with and extends at least between the ferrule members along the tube member. Each articulation member is configured to be actuatable to cause a change in a distance between the ferrule members so as to articulate the tube member. Associated systems and methods are also provided.