Patents by Inventor Tony W. Offer

Tony W. Offer 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).

  • Publication number: 20140067771
    Abstract: A method and system for remotely managing a scalable computer system is provided. Elements of an associated tool are embedded on a server and associated console. A service processor for each partition is provided, wherein the service processor supports communication between the server and the designated partition. An operator can discover and validate availability of elements in a computer system. In addition, the operator may leverage data received from the associated discovery and validation to configure or re-configure a partition in the system that support projected workload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James J. Bozek, Conor B. Flynn, Deborah L. McDonald, Vinod Menon, Tony W. Offer, Paul Skoglund
  • Patent number: 8589932
    Abstract: Data processing workload control in a data center is provided, where the data center includes computers whose operations consume power and a workload controller composed of automated computing machinery that controls the overall data processing workload in the data center. The data processing workload is composed of a plurality of specific data processing jobs, including scheduling, by the workload controller in dependence upon power performance information, the data processing jobs for execution upon the computers in the data center, the power performance information including power consumption at a plurality of power-conserving states for each computer in the data center that executes data processing jobs and dispatching by the workload controller the data processing jobs as scheduled for execution on computers in the data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Fred A. Bower, III, Deepak W. Elias, Nikhil Hegde, Jason M. Heim, Sandhya Kapoor, Gregory J. McKnight, Peter J. Morjan, Tony W. Offer
  • Publication number: 20120005683
    Abstract: Data processing workload control in a data center is provided, where the data center includes computers whose operations consume power and a workload controller composed of automated computing machinery that controls the overall data processing workload in the data center. The data processing workload is composed of a plurality of specific data processing jobs, including scheduling, by the workload controller in dependence upon power performance information, the data processing jobs for execution upon the computers in the data center, the power performance information including power consumption at a plurality of power-conserving states for each computer in the data center that executes data processing jobs and dispatching by the workload controller the data processing jobs as scheduled for execution on computers in the data center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fred A. Bower, III, Deepak W. Elias, Nikhil Hegde, Jason M. Heim, Sandhya Kapoor, Gregory J. McKnight, Peter Morjan, Tony W. Offer