Patents by Inventor Orvalle Theordore Kirby

Orvalle Theordore Kirby 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 for managing membership of a group of processors in a distributed computing environment
    Patent number: 5787249
    Abstract: Membership of a group of processors in a distributed computing environment is managed. Specific actions are identified and performed in order to manage the group membership. A processor requests to join the group of processors and thus, is added to the group. Similarly, processors may request to leave the group or may fail and then are removed from the group. The group of members also receives multicasts initiated from one member of the group to other members of the group. Additionally, each group of processors within a distributed computing environment has a group leader that controls the actions being performed for the group of members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Coporation
    Inventors: Peter Richard Badovinatz, Tushar Deepak Chandra, Ajei Sarat Gopal, Orvalle Theordore Kirby, John Arthur Pershing, Jr.