Patents Represented by Law Firm Clark, Thomas & Winters, a P.C.
  • Patent number: 5706516
    Abstract: Data processing application requests are processed in a computer system configured as a plurality of nodes with a plurality of interacting processes. Data is requested by an application request originating on a first node. The request data includes data located on a plurality of the nodes. A portion of computer memory on the nodes is established as agent message queues ("AMQ's"). A first process, acting as a coordinating agent, receives an application request on the first node. The coordinating agent generates a plurality of internal requests for the application request. The coordinating agent communicates the internal requests to a fast communication manager process ("FCM") on the first node. The first FCM, sends the internal requests to FCM's on the nodes having the request data ("request data nodes"), for storage in selected AMQ's on the request data nodes. The internal requests are retrieved from the selected AMQ's by processes acting as subordinate agents on the request data nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Yu Chang, Marc Gregory Smith
  • Patent number: 5662408
    Abstract: The night light has a case with a front side and a rear side. The front side of the case has a portion defining a window. The lamp is secured between the sides and covering the window. The lamp has conductors for connecting to an electrical supply which are in electrical contact with a first and second blade, the blades extending from the rear exterior face of the case for engaging an electrical outlet. The blades are held in a slot through the rear side of the case and by a portion of the blades which engages the interior face of the front side of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Austin Innovations, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph E. Marischen