Patents by Inventor Bryan T. Whitmore

Bryan T. Whitmore 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: 7877511
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide an adaptive load balancer that presents a virtual data system to client computer systems. The virtual data system provides access to an aggregated set of data, such as files or web service objects, available from a plurality of server data systems respectively operating within a plurality of server computer systems. The adaptive load balancer receives a client data access transaction from a client computer system that specifies a data access operation to be performed relative to the virtual data system presented to the client computer system. The adaptive load balancer processes the client data access transaction in relation to metadata associated with the virtual data system to provide access to the file or service object within a server computer system, or to access the metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: F5 Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Berger, Robert T. Curley, Daniel J. Dietterich, JC Ferguson, Michael J. Homberg, Benjamin E. McCann, Jonathan C. Nicklin, David Porter, Suchi Raman, Craig S. Rasmussen, Michael J. Soha, Thomas J. Teixeira, Bryan T. Whitmore, Leonard F. Wisniewski, Chin-Cheng Wu