Patents by Inventor Kenneth L. Astl

Kenneth L. Astl 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: 7895602
    Abstract: Provided are a system and article of manufacture for duplicate message elimination during recovery when multiple threads are delivering messages from a message store to a destination queue. A plurality of message threads process operations to deliver messages from a message store to a destination queue, wherein one message thread processes one message. An in-doubt list is generated identifying messages that are in-progress of being delivered form the message store to the destination queue by the message threads. One message thread processing one message adds an entry including the message identifier and the thread identifier to a monitor queue. The message thread further adds the message to the destination queue. A recovery thread is generated in response to detecting a failure in the processing by the threads to deliver the messages from the message store to the destination queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Astl, Subramanyam Agraharam Gooty, Arul Sundaramurthy, Kai Mike Zhang
  • Publication number: 20090119680
    Abstract: Provided are a system and article of manufacture for duplicate message elimination during recovery when multiple threads are delivering messages from a message store to a destination queue. A plurality of message threads process operations to deliver messages from a message store to a destination queue, wherein one message thread processes one message. An in-doubt list is generated identifying messages that are in-progress of being delivered form the message store to the destination queue by the message threads. One message thread processing one message adds an entry including the message identifier and the thread identifier to a monitor queue. The message thread further adds the message to the destination queue. A recovery thread is generated in response to detecting a failure in the processing by the threads to deliver the messages from the message store to the destination queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenneth L. ASTL, Subramanyam Agraharam GOOTY, Arul SUNDARAMURTHY, Kai Mike ZHANG
  • Patent number: 7480918
    Abstract: Provided is a method for duplicate message elimination A plurality of message threads process operations to deliver messages from a message store to a destination queue. An in-doubt list is generated identifying messages that are in-progress of being delivered from the message store to the destination queue by the message threads. One message thread processing one message adds an entry including the message identifier to a monitor queue. The message thread further adds the message to the destination queue. A recovery thread is generated in response to detecting a failure in the processing by the threads to deliver the messages from the message store to the destination queue. The recovery thread processes the messages indicated in the in-doubt list and compares with message identifiers in the monitor queue to prevent duplicate delivery of messages to the destination queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Astl, Subramanyam Agraharam Gooty, Arul Sundaramurthy, Kai Mike Zhang
  • Publication number: 20040205770
    Abstract: A method for preventing the delivery of duplicate messages in a message system, wherein each message comprises a unique message identifier that identifies itself from adjacent messages, comprises the steps of polling a message store for messages directed to a specified receiver; receiving from the message store at least one message directed to the specified receiver; processing the at least one message; receiving, from a monitor queue, a message identifier for the last message successfully delivered to the specified receiver; and comparing the message identifier received from the monitor queue to the message identifier of the message received from the message store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kai Mike Zhang, Kenneth L. Astl, Subramanyam Agraharam Gooty, Arul Prabhu Sundaramurthy