Patents by Inventor Atul K. Mathur

Atul K. Mathur 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).

  • Generous tit-for-tat cooperative distributed computing
    Patent number: 6061744
    Abstract: A distributed computing method is disclosed. The method includes a requester making a number of requests to a number of other computers to perform a number of operations for the requestor's computer using the other computers' resources. The method further includes each corresponding grantor of the other computers to determine whether the other computer should grant the request(s). Each grantor is to make the determination at least at times in accordance with the requestor's computer's prior response(s) to the grantor's computer's prior request(s) of the requestor's computer to perform one or more operations for the grantor's computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventor: Atul K. Mathur