Patents by Inventor Brent Alan Kingsbury

Brent Alan Kingsbury 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).

  • Multiprocessor computer system with user specifiable process placement
    Patent number: 6247041
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for allowing a user process to advise or control an operating system to place a process on a particular node or a node within a set of nodes. When a user process makes a system call to the operating system to either create, execute, move, or attach a process, a specified system resource is passed to the operating system with the system call. This advises the operating system to store the process on a node containing the system resource identified in the system call. The user process can also require the operating system to store a process on a particular node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Phillip Eric Krueger, Corene Casper, Kenneth Frank Dove, Brent Alan Kingsbury, Paul Edward McKenney