Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for tracking processes

• US 20050076341A1
• Filed: 11/12/2004
• Published: 04/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Christopher Thomas Gloe, Dawn Marie May, Jay Robert Weeks, Mark Linus Bauman, Paul Richard Chmielewski
• Original Assignee: Christopher Thomas Gloe, Dawn Marie May, Jay Robert Weeks, Mark Linus Bauman, Paul Richard Chmielewski
• Inventors: Gloe, Christopher Thomas, Bauman, Mark Linus, Weeks, Jay Robert, May, Dawn Marie, Chmielewski, Paul Richard
• Granted Patent: US 7,409,443 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/310
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3466 Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/362 Software debugging
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/162 involving adaptations of sockets based mechanisms secure socket layer H04L63/168

Abstract

A method, apparatus and computer readable medium is provided for tracking processes using a socket object. The processes are utilized to execute an application program. Initially, a process list for the socket object is created, such that the process list contains a process identifier for a first process using the socket object. If a second process is using the socket object, the process list is updated to include the process identifier for the second process.

Claims

1. A method for administering network information, the method comprising:

displaying a user interface containing a list of socket objects used for a computer system; and

providing a process list for a socket object selected by a user from the list of socket objects, where the process list contains a process identifier for at least one process using the selected socket object.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein each of the at least one process using the selected socket object comprises an active process using the socket object.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein each socket object in the list of socket objects is associated with a client computer communicating with a server computer.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the process identifier comprises at least one of a process name, a user name associated with the process name and a process number.

5. A computer readable medium storing a software program that, when executed by a processor of a computer, causes the computer to perform a method comprising:

displaying a user interface containing a list of socket objects used for a computer system; and

providing a process list for a socket object selected by a user from the list of socket objects, where the process list contains a process identifier for at least one process using the selected socket object.

6. The computer readable medium of claim 5 wherein each of the at least one process using the selected socket object comprises an active process using the socket object.

7. The computer readable medium of claim 5 wherein each socket object in the list of socket objects is associated with a client computer communicating with a server computer.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 5 wherein the process identifier comprises at least one of a process name, a user name associated with the process name and a process number.

9. A method for deploying computing infrastructure, comprising integrating computer readable code into a computing system, wherein the code in combination with the computing system is capable of performing a method for managing one or more goals utilizing a user interface, the method comprising:

displaying a user interface containing a list of socket objects used for a computer system; and

providing a process list for a socket object selected by a user from the list of socket objects, where the process list contains a process identifier for at least one process using the selected socket object.