Patents by Inventor Brian Michael Rivera

Brian Michael Rivera 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 and system for self-organizing computer systems
    Patent number: 8140651
    Abstract: A system and method to self-configure a distributed system includes obtaining a description of a distributed system which has a plurality of computing nodes, each node being capable of performing any of a plurality of tasks in the description. At each node, a persona of that node is determined in accordance with the description such that the nodes are assigned tasks in the distributed system. Each node is reconfigured in accordance with the persona such that the nodes are linked in the distributed system to provide a self-configured distributed system for performing at least one application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vasileios Pappas, Dinesh Chandra Verma, Brian Michael Rivera, Ananthram Swami
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELF-ORGANIZING COMPUTER SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20090282132
    Abstract: A system and method to self-configure a distributed system includes obtaining a description of a distributed system which has a plurality of computing nodes, each node being capable of performing any of a plurality of tasks in the description. At each node, a persona of that node is determined in accordance with the description such that the nodes are assigned tasks in the distributed system. Each node is reconfigured in accordance with the persona such that the nodes are linked in the distributed system to provide a self-configured distributed system for performing at least one application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Vasileios Pappas, Dinesh Chandra Verma, Brian Michael Rivera, Ananthram Swami