Patents by Inventor Bernard Krummenacher

Bernard Krummenacher 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 and apparatus for a parallel data storage and processing server
    Patent number: 5737549
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a parallel multiprocessor-multidisk storage server which offers low delays and high throughputs when accessing and processing one-dimensional and multi-dimensional file data such as pixmap images, text, sound or graphics. The invented parallel multiprocessor-multidisk storage server may be used as a server offering its services to a computer, to client stations residing on a network or to a parallel host system to which it is connected. The parallel storage server comprises (a) a server interface processor interfacing the storage system with a host computer, with a network or with a parallel computing system; (b) an array of disk nodes, each disk node being composed by one processor electrically connected to at least one disk and (c) an interconnection network for connecting the server interface processor with the array of disk nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
    Inventors: Roger D. Hersch, Bernard Krummenacher
  • Method and apparatus for a parallel data storage and processing server
    Patent number: RE38410
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a parallel multiprocessor-multidisk storage server which offers low delays and high throughputs when accessing and processing one-dimensional and multi-dimensional file data such as pixmap images, text, sound or graphics. The invented parallel multiprocessor-multidisk storage server may be used as a server offering its services to computer, to client stations residing on a network or to a parallel host system to which it is connected. The parallel storage server comprises (a) a server interface processor interfacing the storage system with a host computer, with a network or with a parallel computing system; (b) an array of disk nodes, each disk node being composed by one processor electrically connected to at least one disk and (c) an interconnection network for connecting the server interface processor with the array of disk nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: AXS Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger D. Hersch, Bernard Krummenacher