Patents by Inventor Clarles Kevin Shank

Clarles Kevin Shank 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).

  • Resource management for CORBA-based applications
    Patent number: 6629112
    Abstract: To provide resource management in a distributed object-oriented client/server computer system, resources allocated on a server on behalf of processes running on a client are recovered when the processes on the client no longer need to access the resource or when they terminate normally or abnormally. Reference counting is used on the server in combination with the use of smart proxies on the client so that resources on the server can be recovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Clarles Kevin Shank, R. Alberto Villarica