Patents by Inventor Andrew Stephen Marcus Edwards

Andrew Stephen Marcus Edwards 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: 11055156
    Abstract: A method and related system to concurrently process a temporal message stream. The method comprises obtaining messages of a message stream, each message having an associated timestamp. The method further comprises storing each message in at least one of a plurality of queues, wherein the messages of each queue are ordered based on their timestamp such that a message with the earliest timestamp is positioned at the front of the queue. The method then comprises controlling retrieval of the target message from the front of a target queue based on a timing difference between the timestamp of the message and the timestamps of the front message of each of the other queues of the plurality of queues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Martin A. Ross, Andrew Stephen Marcus Edwards
  • Publication number: 20210055976
    Abstract: A method and related system to concurrently process a temporal message stream. The method comprises obtaining messages of a message stream, each message having an associated timestamp. The method further comprises storing each message in at least one of a plurality of queues, wherein the messages of each queue are ordered based on their timestamp such that a message with the earliest timestamp is positioned at the front of the queue. The method then comprises controlling retrieval of the target message from the front of a target queue based on a timing difference between the timestamp of the message and the timestamps of the front message of each of the other queues of the plurality of queues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Martin A. Ross, Andrew Stephen Marcus Edwards
  • Patent number: 8732228
    Abstract: Documents are published in a publish subscribe data processing system. A first document to be published may have an associated topic. The first document is retained as a retained document. A second document to be published is retained as the retained document in response to receiving the second document before a predetermined time interval has passed. A copy of the second document is sent to a subscriber of the topic. A copy of the retained document is sent to the subscriber of the topic in response to a determination that the predetermined time interval has passed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Stephen Marcus Edwards, Andrew Ian Hickson, Martin Robert Holder, Trevor Lobban