Patents by Inventor Curt L. Cotner

Curt L. Cotner 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 of assigning work requests based on classifying into an eligible class where the criteria is goal oriented and capacity information is available
    Patent number: 5603029
    Abstract: Apparatus and accompanying methods for use preferably in a multi-system shared data (sysplex) environment (100), wherein each system (110) provides one or more servers (115), for dynamically and adaptively assigning and balancing new work and for new session requests, among the servers in the sysplex, in view of attendant user-defined business importance of these requests and available sysplex resource capacity so as to meet overall business goals. Specifically, systems and servers are categorized into two classes: eligible, i.e., goal-oriented servers running under a policy and for which capacity information is currently available, and candidate, i.e., servers which lack capacity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Aman, Curt L. Cotner, Donna N. T. Dillenberger, David B. Emmes
  • System and method for including stored procedures, user-defined functions, and trigger processing in an existing unit of work
    Patent number: 5553234
    Abstract: A system and method for incorporating an external predefined procedure into an existing unit of work. The existing unit of work is part of a client application process, wherein the client application process is not able to execute external programs. A logical representation of the client application process is created in a database environment. The logical representation is disconnected from the client application process, and is connected to a procedure operating environment capable of executing external programs. The external predefined procedure is caused to be executed in the procedure operating environment. Then, the logical representation is reconnected to the client application process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Curt L. Cotner, Robert J. Heaps, Wendy L. Koontz, Benjamin R. Little, Thomas J. Toomire