Patents by Inventor Ahmed Gheith

Ahmed Gheith 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).

  • Patent number: 10129366
    Abstract: For location-based communication with mobile devices, a set of callee conditions is received at a caller's device, which has to be satisfied by a callee according to information descriptive of a condition of the callee. The state information is distinct from the location and a time of the callee's presence at the location. An evaluation is made that each device associated with each potential callee in a first subset has been present at the location at a specified time, and that each potential callee in the first subset satisfies the set of callee conditions. At the caller's device, an instruction is received for making a telecommunication call to a device of a potential callee in a first subset. The call is initiated from the caller's device to mobile devices associated with the first subset of potential callees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kanak B. Agarwal, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Brian L. White Eagle, James Xenidis
  • Publication number: 20180262555
    Abstract: To manage channel ownership in a publish-subscribe data processing environment, a determination is made at a first server that a subscription request from a client relates to a channel, the channel having a channel identifier. At an exchange component in a messaging middleware, a session queue associated with the client is bound to the channel. A mandatory delivery message is configured to be routed using a publisher identifier by the exchange component, the publisher identifier being related to the channel identifier. The mandatory delivery message is communicated from the first server to the exchange component to indicate an intent of the first server to become a publisher of the channel. The mandatory delivery message causes the channel ownership of the channel to be limited to a single publisher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: KANAK B. AGARWAL, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony
  • Patent number: 10063623
    Abstract: To manage channel ownership in a publish-subscribe data processing environment, a determination is made at a first server that a subscription request from a client relates to a channel, the channel having a channel identifier. At an exchange component in a messaging middleware, a session queue associated with the client is bound to the channel. A mandatory delivery message is configured to be routed using a publisher identifier by the exchange component, the publisher identifier being related to the channel identifier. The mandatory delivery message is communicated from the first server to the exchange component to indicate an intent of the first server to become a publisher of the channel. The mandatory delivery message causes the channel ownership of the channel to be limited to a single publisher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kanak B. Agarwal, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony
  • Publication number: 20180167475
    Abstract: A dynamic data distribution system allows publication of data values for hierarchical keys (paths) and subscriptions to key (path) patterns which include wildcard characters. Permission to publish or subscribe is controlled by an access control list associated with each key. An agent receives a publication request from a client, verifies client access permissions on the subject key, and transmits the publication to a data storage server which performs the write. Following a successful write, the agent forwards the publication to a message routing exchange which routes the publication to the session queue for all clients that are permitted to receive the publication and have subscribed to a key pattern matching this publication. For data synchronization, the data storage server assigns a virtual time stamp to each write, and the subscriber verifies the count of updates received for a subscription within a sliding window of virtual time stamps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Kanak B. Agarwal, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony
  • Patent number: 9934079
    Abstract: A system, and computer usable program product for fast remote communication and computation between processors are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A direct core to core communication unit (DCC) is configured to operate with a first processor, the first processor being a remote processor. A memory associated with the DCC receives a set of bytes, the set of bytes being sent from a second processor. An operation specified in the set of bytes is executed at the remote processor such that the operation is invoked without causing a software thread to execute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Bruce Carter, Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy, Ahmed Gheith, Eric Van Hansbergen, Karthick Rajamani, William Evan Speight, Lixin Zhang
  • Patent number: 9864698
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for resolving cache lookup of large pages with variable granularity are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A number of unused bits in an available number of bits is identified. The available number of bits is configured to address a page of data in memory, wherein the page exceeding a threshold size, and the page comprising a set of parts. The unused bits are mapped to the plurality of parts such that a value of the unused bits corresponds to existence of a subset of the set of parts in a memory. A virtual address is translated to a physical address of a requested part in the set of parts. A determination is made, using the unused bits, whether the requested part exists in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ahmed Gheith, Eric Van Hensbergen, James Xenidis
  • Patent number: 9800648
    Abstract: To manage channel ownership in a publish-subscribe data processing environment, a determination is made at a first server that a subscription request from a client relates to a channel, the channel having a channel identifier. At an exchange component in a messaging middleware, a session queue associated with the client is bound to the channel. A mandatory delivery message is configured to be routed using a publisher identifier by the exchange component, the publisher identifier being related to the channel identifier. The mandatory delivery message is communicated from the first server to the exchange component to indicate an intent of the first server to become a publisher of the channel. The mandatory delivery message causes the channel ownership of the channel to be limited to a single publisher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kanak B. Agarwal, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony
  • Publication number: 20170272346
    Abstract: To provide client-side fault-tolerance in a publish-subscribe system, a message is received on a channel from a server. At a function executing using a processor and a memory, a determination is made whether the message contains a heartbeat data. When the message contains the heartbeat data, a determination is made whether a content signature contained in the message matches a last known content signature saved from a previous message. When the content signature contained in the message does not match the last known content signature saved from a previous message, a refresh message is sent to the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: KANAK B. AGARWAL, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony
  • Publication number: 20170257421
    Abstract: To manage channel ownership in a publish-subscribe data processing environment, a determination is made at a first server that a subscription request from a client relates to a channel, the channel having a channel identifier. At an exchange component in a messaging middleware, a session queue associated with the client is bound to the channel. A mandatory delivery message is configured to be routed using a publisher identifier by the exchange component, the publisher identifier being related to the channel identifier. The mandatory delivery message is communicated from the first server to the exchange component to indicate an intent of the first server to become a publisher of the channel. The mandatory delivery message causes the channel ownership of the channel to be limited to a single publisher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kanak B. Agarwal, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony
  • Patent number: 9742651
    Abstract: To provide client-side fault-tolerance in a publish-subscribe system, a message is received on a channel from a server. At a function executing using a processor and a memory, a determination is made whether the message contains a heartbeat data. When the message contains the heartbeat data, a determination is made whether a content signature contained in the message matches a last known content signature saved from a previous message. When the content signature contained in the message does not match the last known content signature saved from a previous message, a refresh message is sent to the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kanak B. Agarwal, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony
  • Patent number: 9622043
    Abstract: For location-based communication with mobile devices, a condition is received, at a device associated with a caller, where the condition has to be satisfied by a callee at a past location, the past location being a place where different callees with different mobile devices are present at different times. At the device associated with the caller, an instruction is received for making a telecommunication call to a mobile device of a potential callee in a set of potential callees, where each mobile device associated with each potential callee in set of potential callees was present at the past location at a past time, and where each potential callee in the set of potential callees satisfies the condition at the past location. Using a processor and a memory in the device associated with the caller, the telecommunication call is initiated to mobile devices associated with a subset of potential callees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kanak B. Agarwal, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Brian L. White Eagle, James Xenidis
  • Patent number: 9615216
    Abstract: For location-based communication with mobile devices, a condition is received at a device associated with a caller. The condition has to be satisfied by a callee at a future time and at a location, the location being a place where different callees with different mobile devices are present at different times. An instruction is received at the device for making a telecommunication call to the location where the callee is present with a mobile device and satisfies the condition at the future time. A set of potential callees is identified. Each mobile device associated with each callee in set of potential callees is present at the location at the future time, and each potential callee in the set of potential callees satisfies the condition. The telecommunication call is initiated to mobile devices associated with a subset of potential callees, the subset of potential callees including the callee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kanak B. Agarwal, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Brian L. White Eagle, James Xenidis
  • Patent number: 9602964
    Abstract: For current location-based telecommunication, an instruction is sent from a caller communication device to initiate a telecommunication with a set of destination communication devices. The instruction includes identifying information for a reference device but does not include any identifying information for the set of destination communication devices. Telecommunication data is received at the caller communication device from a destination communication device in the set of destination communication devices, where a server has established a communication channel between the caller communication device and the destination communication device based on a geolocation proximity of the destination communication devices relative to the reference device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kanak B. Agarwal, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Brian L. White Eagle, James Xenidis
  • Publication number: 20170070848
    Abstract: For current location-based telecommunication, an instruction is sent from a caller communication device to initiate a telecommunication with a set of destination communication devices. The instruction includes identifying information for a reference device but does not include any identifying information for the set of destination communication devices. Telecommunication data is received at the caller communication device from a destination communication device in the set of destination communication devices, where a server has established a communication channel between the caller communication device and the destination communication device based on a geolocation proximity of the destination communication devices relative to the reference device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: KANAK B. AGARWAL, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Brian L. White Eagle, James Xenidis
  • Publication number: 20170070596
    Abstract: For location-based communication with mobile devices, a set of callee conditions is received at a caller's device, which has to be satisfied by a callee according to information descriptive of a condition of the callee. The state information is distinct from the location and a time of the callee's presence at the location. An evaluation is made that each device associated with each potential callee in a first subset has been present at the location at a specified time, and that each potential callee in the first subset satisfies the set of callee conditions. At the caller's device, an instruction is received for making a telecommunication call to a device of a potential callee in a first subset. The call is initiated from the caller's device to mobile devices associated with the first subset of potential callees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: KANAK B. AGARWAL, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Brian L. White Eagle, James Xenidis
  • Publication number: 20170070860
    Abstract: For location-based communication with mobile devices, a condition is received, at a device associated with a caller, where the condition has to be satisfied by a callee at a past location, the past location being a place where different callees with different mobile devices are present at different times. At the device associated with the caller, an instruction is received for making a telecommunication call to a mobile device of a potential callee in a set of potential callees, where each mobile device associated with each potential callee in set of potential callees was present at the past location at a past time, and where each potential callee in the set of potential callees satisfies the condition at the past location. Using a processor and a memory in the device associated with the caller, the telecommunication call is initiated to mobile devices associated with a subset of potential callees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kanak B. Agarwal, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Brian L. White Eagle, James Xenidis
  • Publication number: 20170070859
    Abstract: For location-based communication with mobile devices, a condition is received at a device associated with a caller. The condition has to be satisfied by a callee at a future time and at a location, the location being a place where different callees with different mobile devices are present at different times. An instruction is received at the device for making a telecommunication call to the location where the callee is present with a mobile device and satisfies the condition at the future time. A set of potential callees is identified. Each mobile device associated with each callee in set of potential callees is present at the location at the future time, and each potential callee in the set of potential callees satisfies the condition. The telecommunication call is initiated to mobile devices associated with a subset of potential callees, the subset of potential callees including the callee.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kanak B. Agarwal, Patrick J. Bohrer, Ahmed Gheith, Michael D. Kistler, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Brian L. White Eagle, James Xenidis
  • Publication number: 20170011058
    Abstract: A request to access to a logical location in a file stored in a content addressable storage (CAS) system can be processed by retrieving first tree data from a first node in a first hash tree that represents a first version of the file. Based on the first tree data, a second node is selected from which a CAS signature is compared to a reserved CAS signature to determine the proper file version. In response to a match, a third node is accessed in a second hash tree that represents a second version of the file. Tree data is retrieved from a third node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Ahmed Gheith, Eric Van Hensbergen, James Xenidis
  • Publication number: 20170011057
    Abstract: A request to access to a logical location in a file stored in a content addressable storage (CAS) system can be handled by retrieving first tree data from a first node in a hash tree that represents the file, the first tree data including a first hash tree depth, a first CAS signature, a block size and a file size. Based on the tree data, a second node is selected from a higher level in the hash tree. Second tree data from the second node of the hash tree that represents the file is retrieved, including a second CAS signature. The second CAS signature is determined to match a reserved CAS signature, and in response, an indication that the requested logical location is unallocated within the file is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Ahmed Gheith, Eric Van Hensbergen, James Xenidis
  • Patent number: 9495373
    Abstract: A request to access to a logical location in a file stored in a content addressable storage (CAS) system can be processed by retrieving first tree data from a first node in a first hash tree that represents a first version of the file. Based on the first tree data, a second node is selected from which a CAS signature is compared to a reserved CAS signature to determine the proper file version. In response to a match, a third node is accessed in a second hash tree that represents a second version of the file. Tree data is retrieved from a third node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmed Gheith, Eric Van Hensbergen, James Xenidis