Patents by Inventor Ronald T. Goering
Ronald T. Goering 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).
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Patent number: 8458694Abstract: A method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for managing virtual machine imaging. The method includes receiving a request for an imaging operation associated with at least one virtual machine. A notification is sent to at least one operating system associated with the at least one virtual machine of the request for the imaging operation. The operating system is determined to be in a state for the virtual machine to be imaged. The request for the imaging operation is granting in response to determining.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2007Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David M. Chess, Sean L. Dague, Ronald T. Goering, Hidayatullah H. Shaikh, Ian N. Whalley, Steve R. White, Jian Yin
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Publication number: 20080271016Abstract: A method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for managing virtual machine imaging. The method includes receiving a request for an imaging operation associated with at least one virtual machine. A notification is sent to at least one operating system associated with the at least one virtual machine of the request for the imaging operation. The operating system is determined to be in a state for the virtual machine to be imaged. The request for the imaging operation is granting in response to determining.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2007Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: David M. Chess, Sean L. Dague, Ronald T. Goering, Hidayatullah H. Shaikh, Ian N. Whalley, Steve R. White, Jian Yin
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Publication number: 20080256534Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the customization of virtual machine images. The method comprises identifying and retrieving a virtual machine image template. A customized virtual machine image is created from the virtual machine image template. The customized virtual machine image template being created by identifying at least one file-system or memory image that is associated with the virtual machine image template, identifying within the at least one file-system or memory image at least one data set, wherein the at least one data set comprises metadata. The metadata contains information detailing the required execution context customization aspects for at least one specified image subset of the virtual machine. Execution context-specific information that is required to customize the image subset of the virtual machine is retrieved. Further, the image subset of the virtual machine is modified in accordance with the retrieved execution context-specific information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2007Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: David M. Chess, Sean L. Dague, Tamar Eilam, Ronald T. Goering, Ryan P. Grimm, James E. Hanson, Giovanni Pacifici, Benny Rochwerger, Hidayatullah H. Shaikh, Ian N. Whalley, Jian Yin
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Patent number: 7185076Abstract: Various components are provided to manage a clustered environment. These components include a System Registry that provides a global data storage; a Configuration manager that stores data locally on nodes of the clustered environment and globally within the System Registry; a Liveness component to provide status of communications paths of the cluster; a Group Services component that provides services to one or more other components of the clustered environment; and a Resource Management component that communicates with one or more resource controllers of the clustered environment. Each of the components of the clustered environment has one or more data and/or functional dependencies on one or more other components of the environment. However, relationships between the components are created such that the data and functional dependencies form an acyclic graph (i.e., a cycle of dependency relationships is avoided).Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marcos N. Novaes, Gregory D. Laib, Ronald T. Goering, Jeffrey S. Lucash, Peter R. Badovinatz, Michael A. Schmidt
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Patent number: 7103664Abstract: Various components are provided to manage a clustered environment. These components include a System Registry that provides a global data storage; a Configuration manager that stores data locally on nodes of the clustered environment and globally within the System Registry; a Liveness component to provide status of communications paths of the cluster; a Group Services component that provides services to one or more other components of the clustered environment; and a Resource Management component that communicates with one or more resource controllers of the clustered environment. Each of the components of the clustered environment has one or more data and/or functional dependencies on one or more other components of the environment. However, relationships between the components are created such that the data and functional dependencies form an acyclic graph (i.e., a cycle of dependency relationships is avoided).Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marcos N. Novaes, Gregory D. Laib, Ronald T. Goering, Jeffrey S. Lucash, George Sohos
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Patent number: 6973473Abstract: Various components are provided to manage a clustered environment. These components include a System Registry that provides a global data storage; a Configuration manager that stores data locally on nodes of the clustered environment and globally within the System Registry; a Liveness component to provide status of communications paths of the cluster; a Group Services component that provides services to one or more other components of the clustered environment; and a Resource Management component that communicates with one or more resource controllers of the clustered environment. Each of the components of the clustered environment has one or more data and/or functional dependencies on one or more other components of the environment. However, relationships between the components are created such that the data and functional dependencies form an acyclic graph (i.e., a cycle of dependency relationships is avoided).Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: December 6, 2005Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marcos N. Novaes, Gregory D. Laib, Jeffrey S. Lucash, Ronald T. Goering, George Sohos
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Patent number: 6925490Abstract: Various components are provided to manage a clustered environment. These components include a System Registry that provides a global data storage; a Configuration manager that stores data locally on nodes of the clustered environment and globally within the System Registry; a Liveness component to provide status of communications paths of the cluster; a Group Services component that provides services to one or more other components of the clustered environment; and a Resource Management component that communicates with one or more resource controllers of the clustered environment. Each of the components of the clustered environment has one or more data and/or functional dependencies on one or more other components of the environment. However, relationships between the components are created such that the data and functional dependencies form an acyclic graph (i.e., a cycle of dependency relationships is avoided).Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marcos N. Novaes, Gregory D. Laib, Ronald T. Goering, George Sohos, Felipe Knop
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Patent number: 6847993Abstract: Various components are provided to manage a clustered environment. These components include a System Registry that provides a global data storage; a Configuration manager that stores data locally on nodes of the clustered environment and globally within the System Registry; a Liveness component to provide status of communications paths of the cluster; a Group Services component that provides services to one or more other components of the clustered environment; and a Resource Management component that communicates with one or more resource controllers of the clustered environment. Each of the components of the clustered environment has one or more data and/or functional dependencies on one or more other components of the environment. However, relationships between the components are created such that the data and functional dependencies form an acyclic graph (i.e., a cycle of dependency relationships is avoided).Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marcos N. Novaes, Gregory D. Laib, Jeffrey S. Lucash, Ronald T. Goering, George Sohos
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Patent number: 6807557Abstract: Various components are provided to manage a clustered environment. These components include a System Registry that provides a global data storage; a Configuration manager that stores data locally on nodes of the clustered environment and globally within the System Registry; a Liveness component to provide status of communications paths of the cluster; a Group Services component that provides services to one or more other components of the clustered environment; and a Resource Management component that communicates with one or more resource controllers of the clustered environment. Each of the components of the clustered environment has one or more data and/or functional dependencies on one or more other components of the environment. However, relationships between the components are created such that the data and functional dependencies form an acyclic graph (i.e., a cycle of dependency relationships is avoided).Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marcos N. Novaes, Gregory D. Laib, Ronald T. Goering, George Sohos, Jeffrey S. Lucash
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Patent number: 6801937Abstract: Various components are provided to manage a clustered environment. These components include a System Registry that provides a global data storage; a Configuration manager that stores data locally on nodes of the clustered environment and globally within the System Registry; a Liveness component to provide status of communications paths of the cluster; a Group Services component that provides services to one or more other components of the clustered environment; and a Resource Management component that communicates with one or more resource controllers of the clustered environment. Each of the components of the clustered environment has one or more data and/or functional dependencies on one or more other components of the environment. However, relationships between the components are created such that the data and functional dependencies form an acyclic graph (i.e., a cycle of dependency relationships is avoided).Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marcos N. Novaes, Gregory D. Laib, Jeffrey S. Lucash, Ronald T. Goering, George Sohos
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Patent number: 6725261Abstract: Various components are provided to manage a clustered environment. These components include a System Registry that provides a global data storage; a Configuration manager that stores data locally on nodes of the clustered environment and globally within the System Registry; a Liveness component to provide status of communications paths of the cluster; a Group Services component that provides services to one or more other components of the clustered environment; and a Resource Management component that communicates with one or more resource controllers of the clustered environment. Each of the components of the clustered environment has one or more data and/or functional dependencies on one or more other components of the environment. However, relationships between the components are created such that the data and functional dependencies form an acyclic graph (i.e., a cycle of dependency relationships is avoided).Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marcos N. Novaes, Gregory D. Laib, Jeffrey S. Lucash, Ronald T. Goering, George Sohos