Patents by Inventor David Bruce Emmes

David Bruce Emmes 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).

  • Apparatus and accompanying method for assigning session requests in a multi-server sysplex environment
    Patent number: 6249800
    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: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporartion
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Aman, David Bruce Emmes, David Walsh Palmieri
  • System for assignment of work requests by identifying servers in a multisystem complex having a minimum predefined capacity utilization at lowest importance level
    Patent number: 5881238
    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: February 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Aman, Curt Lee Cotner, Donna Ngar Ting Dillenberger, David Bruce Emmes