Patents by Inventor Kenneth Bruce MacKenzie

Kenneth Bruce MacKenzie 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: 9164818
    Abstract: A computer implemented method to handle events based on historic actions. An event-handler receives an event, wherein the event has an associated event-type. The event-handler records the event to an event-action history table. The event-handler determines a history associated with the event by reading the event-action history table. The event-handler looks up a row entry in an action table based at least in part on the event-type, wherein the row entry comprises an action. The event-handler executes at least one instruction of the action. The event-handler records the event and action data to the event-action history table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sanaa Abdelhadi, Guoyou Chen, Kenneth Bruce MacKenzie, David W. Nip
  • Publication number: 20120197951
    Abstract: A computer implemented method to handle events based on historic actions. An event-handler receives an event, wherein the event has an associated event-type. The event-handler records the event to an event-action history table. The event-handler determines a history associated with the event by reading the event-action history table. The event-handler looks up a row entry in an action table based at least in part on the event-type, wherein the row entry comprises an action. The event-handler executes at least one instruction of the action. The event-handler records the event and action data to the event-action history table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sanaa Abdelhadi, Guoyou Chen, Kenneth Bruce MacKenzie, David W. Nip
  • Publication number: 20110072442
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computer implemented method, computer program product, and apparatus to handle events based on historic actions. An event-handler receives an event, wherein the event has an associated event-type. The event-handler records the event to an event-action history table. The event-handler determines a history associated with the event by reading the event-action history table. The event-handler looks up a row entry in an action table based at least in part on the event-type, wherein the row entry comprises an action. The event-handler executes at least one instruction of the action. The event-handler records the event and action data to the event-action history table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sanaa Abdelhadi, Guoyou Chen, Kenneth Bruce MacKenzie, David W. Nip
  • Patent number: 7870241
    Abstract: Power and redundancy management policies are applied individually to the tiers of redundant servers of an application service such that power is reduced while maintaining a high level of system availability. Servers which are determined to be relatively inactive are moved to a free pool. Certain servers of the free pool are maintained in a hot standby state, while others are powered-off or set to operate in a low power mode. During times of high load, the servers in the hot standby state can be provisioned quickly into the application service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ofer Biran, Richard Edwin Harper, Srirama Mandyam Krishnakumar, Kenneth Bruce MacKenzie, Gregory Brian Pruett, Ben-Ami Yassour
  • Publication number: 20040107273
    Abstract: Power and redundancy management policies are applied individually to the tiers of redundant servers of an application service such that power is reduced while maintaining a high level of system availability. Servers which are determined to be relatively inactive are moved to a free pool. Certain servers of the free pool are maintained in a hot standby state, while others are powered-off or set to operate in a low power mode. During times of high load, the servers in the hot standby state can be provisioned quickly into the application service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ofer Biran, Richard Edwin Harper, Srirama Mandyam Krishnakumar, Kenneth Bruce MacKenzie, Gregory Brian Pruett, Ben-Ami Yassour
  • Patent number: 6363495
    Abstract: A method in a computer for handling a network partition of a clustered computer system, wherein the computer is part of a number of computers located within the cluster. Data is periodically written into a data structure in a shared resource, wherein the data provides a status of the computer and wherein a data structure is associated with each cluster node. Monitoring for a partition of the cluster is performed. All data structures located in the shared resource are read in response to detecting a network partition of the cluster. A determination is made as to whether the computer is in the preferred partition, one containing the largest number of computers or is otherwise determined to be viable for continued operation. Should the computer determine that it is not a member of a preferred or otherwise viable partition, it must relinquish access to shared cluster resources requiring mutually exclusive access, such as a database on a shared disk volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Bruce MacKenzie, Richard James McCarty, Amal Ahmed Shaheen