Patents by Inventor Yolanda Kay Dickinson

Yolanda Kay Dickinson 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).

  • System and program to automatically identify a server on which to deploy an application
    Patent number: 8321554
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for determining one of a plurality of servers on which to install and execute an application. First program instructions obtain information from each of the plurality of servers as to amounts of availability of their respective CPUs, RAMs and storage. Second program instructions determine one or more of the servers which have sufficient CPU, RAM and storage to execute the application. Third program instructions determine a weight for each of the amounts for the one or more servers. Fourth program instructions sum together, for each of the one or more servers, the weights for their respective amounts of availability of the CPUs, RAMs and storage. Fifth program instructions determine which of the one or more servers has a highest sum, whereby the server with the highest sum is recommended to execute the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Yolanda Kay Dickinson