Patents by Inventor Christina Heidi Crane

Christina Heidi Crane 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).

  • Configuration and unconfiguration of distributed computing environment components
    Patent number: 5784612
    Abstract: Methods of configuring and unconfiguring resources in and from a distributed computing environment are effected by identifying those configuration/unconfiguration tasks which must be carried out locally (that is, on the resource being configured/unconfigured) and then enforcing the cell administrator's preexisting restriction on root user access to the machine at least with respect to the identified local configuration/unconfiguration task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christina Heidi Crane, Edwin Michael Philpot, Jr., Stephna Jeanne Sirkin, Kenneth Walker, Jr.