Patents by Inventor Andrew Whatson

Andrew Whatson 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).

  • Load balancing lottery system
    Patent number: 9626838
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lottery system for redirecting an online lottery client to impede crashing owing to increased traffic during a lottery jackpot. The system includes node servers including a first node server and a second node server. A broker server indicates to the first node server that the second node server is allocated to the client so that the first node server can redirect the client to the second node server to distribute traffic among node servers and impede crashing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: TMS Global Services Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Mike Veverka, Andrew Whatson, Xavier Bergade
  • LOTTERY SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140302907
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lottery system for redirecting an online lottery client to impede crashing owing to increased traffic during a lottery jackpot. The system includes node servers including a first node server and a second node server. A broker server indicates to the first node server that the second node server is allocated to the client so that the first node server can redirect the client to the second node server to distribute traffic among node servers and impede crashing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Mike Veverka, Andrew Whatson, Xavier Bergade