Patents by Inventor Bruce D. Parker

Bruce D. Parker 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).

  • System and method for "N" primary servers to fail over to "1" secondary server
    Patent number: 5852724
    Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a system and method for server back-up. A set of Primary servers and at least on secondary server is coupled to a set of networks. Each server has a host file module for assigning it a common node name and a unique node name. Each server has a high availability module for transmitting a server status over a network. The primary servers each have a set of services operating on their respective networks. The secondary server has a duplicate set of each service running on each primary server. Upon detecting a primary server status which indicates that a primary server is inoperative, the secondary server starts the duplicate set of the primary set of services corresponding to the now inoperative primary server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Veritas Software Corp.
    Inventors: Fletcher M. Glenn, II, Bruce D. Parker