Patents by Inventor Ahmed-Sameh Afif Fakhouri

Ahmed-Sameh Afif Fakhouri 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).

  • Method, system and program products for managing the checkpointing/restarting of resources of a computing environment
    Patent number: 6594779
    Abstract: Resources are checkpointed in order to save the state of the resources. The resources can then be brought back to the same running state, during a restart procedure, by making use of the saved state. The determination of when to take a checkpoint or when to restart a resource is made by an entity, such as a cluster manager, external to the entity initiating or taking the checkpoint or performing the restart. The decision to checkpoint/restart a resource is provided by the cluster manager to a resource manager associated with the resource. This communication is facilitated by interfaces to the cluster manager provided by the resource manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tushar Deepak Chandra, Ahmed-Sameh Afif Fakhouri, Liana Liyow Fong, William Francis Jerome, Srirama Mandyam Krishnakumar, Vijay Krishnarao Naik, John Arthur Pershing, Jr.