Patents by Inventor Stephen Paul Reiser
Stephen Paul Reiser 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: 10067791Abstract: Embodiments of an event-driven resource management technique may enable the management of cluster resources at a sub-computer level (e.g., at the thread level) and the decomposition of jobs at an atomic (task) level. A job queue may request a resource for a job from a resource manager, which may locate a resource in a resource list and grant the resource to the job queue. After the resource is granted, the job queue sends the job to the resource, on which the job may be partitioned into tasks and from which additional resources may be requested from the resource manager. The resource manager may locate additional resources in the list and grant the resources to the resource. The resource sends the tasks to the granted resources for execution. As resources complete their tasks, the resource manager is informed so that the status of the resources in the list can be updated.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Sandford P. Bostic, Stephen Paul Reiser, Andrey J. Bigney
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Patent number: 9804889Abstract: Embodiments of a mobile state object for storing and transporting job metadata on a cluster computing system may use a database as an envelope for the metadata. A state object may include a database that stores the job metadata and wrapper methods. A small database engine may be employed. Since the entire database exists within a single file, complex, extensible applications may be created on the same base state object, and the state object can be sent across the network with the state intact, along with history of the object. An SQLite technology database engine, or alternatively other single file relational database engine technologies, may be used as the database engine. To support the database engine, compute nodes on the cluster may be configured with a runtime library for the database engine via which applications or other entities may access the state file database.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: David C. Adams, Andrey J. Bigney, Stephen Paul Reiser
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Publication number: 20160117194Abstract: Embodiments of an event-driven resource management technique may enable the management of cluster resources at a sub-computer level (e.g., at the thread level) and the decomposition of jobs at an atomic (task) level. A job queue may request a resource for a job from a resource manager, which may locate a resource in a resource list and grant the resource to the job queue. After the resource is granted, the job queue sends the job to the resource, on which the job may be partitioned into tasks and from which additional resources may be requested from the resource manager. The resource manager may locate additional resources in the list and grant the resources to the resource. The resource sends the tasks to the granted resources for execution. As resources complete their tasks, the resource manager is informed so that the status of the resources in the list can be updated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2016Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Sandford P. Bostic, Stephen Paul Reiser, Andrey J. Bigney
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Patent number: 9262218Abstract: Embodiments of an event-driven resource management technique may enable the management of cluster resources at a sub-computer level (e.g., at the thread level) and the decomposition of jobs at an atomic (task) level. A job queue may request a resource for a job from a resource manager, which may locate a resource in a resource list and grant the resource to the job queue. After the resource is granted, the job queue sends the job to the resource, on which the job may be partitioned into tasks and from which additional resources may be requested from the resource manager. The resource manager may locate additional resources in the list and grant the resources to the resource. The resource sends the tasks to the granted resources for execution. As resources complete their tasks, the resource manager is informed so that the status of the resources in the list can be updated.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Sandford P. Bostic, Stephen Paul Reiser, Andrey J. Bigney
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Patent number: 8996469Abstract: Embodiments of a state tracking technique may enable real-time tracking of jobs in a computer cluster. A state object is provided that allows a job to be implemented as a distributable database. The job may be tracked while the job is processing via the state tracking technique. Using the state tracking technique, the cluster may track the location of the state objects for jobs in a database. However, only location information for the state object, and not the job metadata itself, is stored in the central database. This reduces the amount of data stored in the central database, distributing the metadata across the cluster, thus improving database performance and reducing bandwidth requirements on the network. Information about a job may be acquired via a query to the central database to find the location of the respective state object, and then a query to the state object (or to a proxy).Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Andrey J. Bigney, Stephen Paul Reiser
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Publication number: 20140143787Abstract: Embodiments of an event-driven resource management technique may enable the management of cluster resources at a sub-computer level (e.g., at the thread level) and the decomposition of jobs at an atomic (task) level. A job queue may request a resource for a job from a resource manager, which may locate a resource in a resource list and grant the resource to the job queue. After the resource is granted, the job queue sends the job to the resource, on which the job may be partitioned into tasks and from which additional resources may be requested from the resource manager. The resource manager may locate additional resources in the list and grant the resources to the resource. The resource sends the tasks to the granted resources for execution. As resources complete their tasks, the resource manager is informed so that the status of the resources in the list can be updated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Sandford P. Bostic, Stephen Paul Reiser, Andrey J. Bigney
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Patent number: 8640137Abstract: Embodiments of an event-driven resource management technique may enable the management of cluster resources at a sub-computer level (e.g., at the thread level) and the decomposition of jobs at an atomic (task) level. A job queue may request a resource for a job from a resource manager, which may locate a resource in a resource list and grant the resource to the job queue. After the resource is granted, the job queue sends the job to the resource, on which the job may be partitioned into tasks and from which additional resources may be requested from the resource manager. The resource manager may locate additional resources in the list and grant the resources to the resource. The resource sends the tasks to the granted resources for execution. As resources complete their tasks, the resource manager is informed so that the status of the resources in the list can be updated.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Sandford P. Bostic, Stephen Paul Reiser, Andrey J. Bigney
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Publication number: 20130232164Abstract: Embodiments of a state tracking technique may enable real-time tracking of jobs in a computer cluster. A state object is provided that allows a job to be implemented as a distributable database. The job may be tracked while the job is processing via the state tracking technique. Using the state tracking technique, the cluster may track the location of the state objects for jobs in a database. However, only location information for the state object, and not the job metadata itself, is stored in the central database. This reduces the amount of data stored in the central database, distributing the metadata across the cluster, thus improving database performance and reducing bandwidth requirements on the network. Information about a job may be acquired via a query to the central database to find the location of the respective state object, and then a query to the state object (or to a proxy).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2010Publication date: September 5, 2013Inventors: Andrey J. Bigney, Stephen Paul Reiser
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Publication number: 20130219397Abstract: Embodiments of a mobile state object for storing and transporting job metadata on a cluster computing system may use a database as an envelope for the metadata. A state object may include a database that stores the job metadata and wrapper methods. A small database engine may be employed. Since the entire database exists within a single file, complex, extensible applications may be created on the same base state object, and the state object can be sent across the network with the state intact, along with history of the object. An SQLite technology database engine, or alternatively other single file relational database engine technologies, may be used as the database engine. To support the database engine, compute nodes on the cluster may be configured with a runtime library for the database engine via which applications or other entities may access the state file database.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2010Publication date: August 22, 2013Inventors: David C. Adams, Andrey J. Bigney, Stephen Paul Reiser