Patents by Inventor Senthil K. Ponnuswamy

Senthil K. Ponnuswamy 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).

  • Remote procedural call component management method for a heterogeneous computer network
    Patent number: 5926636
    Abstract: In response to a component management function call by a remote client application, the component management application programming interface (API) generates a message that identifies the called function and the version of the component management API. The component management API calls a local message transfer RPC command to send the message to a RPC command module. The RPC command module processes the local message transfer RPC command, and packages the message for transfer as a RPC over the heterogenous network. The RPC command module sends the packaged RPC to a network stack which in turn transmits the packaged RPC over the heterogenous network to a network stack in the server computer. The server network stack provides the packaged RPC to a server RPC command module that unpacks the RPC in a conventional manner to obtain the original message. The message is passed to a server component management API.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Adaptec, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey T. Lam, Ajay Malik, Senthil K. Ponnuswamy, Thomas M. Battle