Patents by Inventor Alice M. Williams-Obleton

Alice M. Williams-Obleton has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method, system and program storage device for accessing memory to perform messaging using a channel coupled to a sender and a receiver
    Patent number: 7577956
    Abstract: A plurality of batch lists are maintained by a channel in order to improve the efficiency of the channel in performing messaging between a sender and a receiver. For example, a Next Batch list is used to prefetch messages to be sent to the receiver from the sender; a Current Batch list includes the messages currently being transmitted to the receiver or waiting confirmation; and an Acknowledged Batch List includes the messages confirmed by the receiver. This allows the functions of prefetching messages, sending messages and deleting confirmed messages to be performed in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shawfu Chen, Robert O. Dryfoos, Allan Feldman, David Y. Hu, Jason A. Keenaghan, Peter A. Lewis, Peter G. Sutton, Alice M. Williams-Obleton, Mei-Hui Wang
  • Performance of channels used in communicating between senders and receivers
    Patent number: 7140017
    Abstract: A plurality of batch lists are maintained by a channel in order to improve the efficiency of the channel in performing messaging between a sender and a receiver. For example, a Next Batch list is used to prefetch messages to be sent to the receiver from the sender; a Current Batch list includes the messages currently being transmitted to the receiver or waiting confirmation; and an Acknowledged Batch List includes the messages confirmed by the receiver. This allows the functions of prefetching messages, sending messages and deleting confirmed messages to be performed in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shawfu Chen, Robert O Dryfoos, Allan Feldman, David Y Hu, Jason A Keenaghan, Peter A Lewis, Peter G Sutton, Alice M Williams-Obleton, Mei-Hui Wang
  • Managing memory resident queues to control resources of the systems using the queues
    Patent number: 7068604
    Abstract: Memory resident queues are monitored at predefined time intervals. When the monitoring indicates that a particular queue is not being serviced at a desired level, then action is taken to sweep one or more messages from the queue. The sweeping of the messages frees up system resources associated with the messages, thus allowing other tasks to be serviced. If, after the sweeping, it is determined that the queue can handle additional messages, then one or more messages are placed back on the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shawfu Chen, Robert O. Dryfoos, Allan Feldman, David Y. Hu, Jason A. Keenaghan, Peter A. Lewis, Peter G. Sutton, Mei-Hui Wang, Alice M. Williams-Obleton
  • Managing memory resident queues to control resources of the systems using the queues
    Publication number: 20030041115
    Abstract: Memory resident queues are monitored at predefined time intervals. When the monitoring indicates that a particular queue is not being serviced at a desired level, then action is taken to sweep one or more messages from the queue. The sweeping of the messages frees up system resources associated with the messages, thus allowing other tasks to be serviced. If, after the sweeping, it is determined that the queue can handle additional messages, then one or more messages are placed back on the queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2001
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shawfu Chen, Robert O. Dryfoos, Allan Feldman, David Y. Hu, Jason A. Keenaghan, Peter A. Lewis, Peter G. Sutton, Mei-Hui Wang, Alice M. Williams-Obleton
  • Performance of channels used in communicating between senders and receivers
    Publication number: 20020116435
    Abstract: A plurality of batch lists are maintained by a channel in order to improve the efficiency of the channel in performing messaging between a sender and a receiver. For example, a Next Batch list is used to prefetch messages to be sent to the receiver from the sender; a Current Batch list includes the messages currently being transmitted to the receiver or waiting confirmation; and an Acknowledged Batch List includes the messages confirmed by the receiver. This allows the functions of prefetching messages, sending messages and deleting confirmed messages to be performed in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shawfu Chen, Robert O. Dryfoos, Allan Feldman, David Y. Hu, Jason A. Keenaghan, Peter A. Lewis, Peter G. Sutton, Alice M. Williams-Obleton, Mei-Hui Wang