US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "System monitoring by playing sound" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,774, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"System monitoring by playing sound" was invented by Albert Alexander Chung (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for system monitoring. A computer system convert a time domain representation of first sound into a frequency domain representation, maps monitoring datasets of a monitored system to frequencies in the frequency domain representation, modifies the amplitudes of the respective frequencies according mapping rules defined by a user, convert the f...