Patents by Inventor Douglas M. Tolbert

Douglas M. Tolbert 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).

  • Patent number: 9330147
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing distributed data using any of a plurality of data models are disclosed. One method includes receiving a data request from one of a plurality of database interfaces, each database interface associated with a different data model type. The method further includes translating the data request to a second data request based at least in part on a data model neutral description of a data model in the data store that is associated with data and the database interface, wherein the data store maintains descriptions of each of a plurality of different data models corresponding to the different data model types. The method also includes executing the second data request, thereby reflecting the data request in data storage such that data is managed consistently across each of the plurality of database interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventor: Douglas M Tolbert
  • Publication number: 20140310705
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a commodity infrastructure operating system that manages and implements the resources and services found in the heterogeneous components of the common infrastructure. The infrastructure operating system managing one or more services residing within an operating system image of a partition. The infrastructure operating system capable of providing a service of a first partition's operating system to a second partition's operating system when the second partition is in need of the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Unisys Corporation
    Inventors: Kelsey L. Bruso, Michael A. Salsburg, Philip J. Erickson, Douglas M. Tolbert, Nandish Jayaram Kopri
  • Publication number: 20140310706
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a commodity infrastructure operating system that manages and implements the resources and services found in the heterogeneous components of the common infrastructure using a fabric manager. A fabric manager managing computing resources in one or more platforms and one or more partitions residing on the platform by monitoring each platform and partitions, and issuing instructions to a hypervisor or other management agent on a platform to execute one or more platform management commands, such as commission a new partition onto a platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Unisys Corporation
    Inventors: Kelsey L. Bruso, Michael A. Salsburg, Philip J. Erickson, Douglas M. Tolbert, Nandish Jayaram Kopri
  • Publication number: 20140310287
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and a system for data storage and retrieval that is agnostic to the database models of any of the databases in embodiments of the common infrastructure. Data may be stored via one database, according to a corresponding model, and then stored such that the data may be retrieved by a second database with a different database model. The data is stored in key-value pairs, and is thus not stored according to any database model. However, metadata perspectives construct a set of retrieved data into a format expected by the database retrieving the set of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Unisys Corporation
    Inventors: Kelsey L. Bruso, Michael A. Salsburg, Philip J. Erickson, Douglas M. Tolbert, Nandish Jayaram Kopri
  • Publication number: 20140164431
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing distributed data using any of a plurality of data models are disclosed. One method includes receiving a data request from one of a plurality of database interfaces, each database interface associated with a different data model type. The method further includes translating the data request to a second data request based at least in part on a data model neutral description of a data model in the data store that is associated with data and the database interface, wherein the data store maintains descriptions of each of a plurality of different data models corresponding to the different data model types. The method also includes executing the second data request, thereby reflecting the data request in data storage such that data is managed consistently across each of the plurality of database interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Unisys Corporation
    Inventor: Douglas M. Tolbert