Patents by Inventor David Byron Shefner

David Byron Shefner 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).

  • Method and apparatus for preventing overload using scaled recovery
    Patent number: 7240117
    Abstract: In the scaled recovery system of the present invention, clients delay for an additional period of time prior to attempting to access a previously unavailable resource that has since become available, rather than accessing the shared resource at full speed once an initial back off interval is over. Through the continual increment and decrement of client back off intervals, the present invention provides dynamic tuning of overall system load in the case of overloaded shared resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Hall Aluminum LLC
    Inventors: Peter Zatloukal, David Byron Shefner
  • Method and apparatus for preventing overload using scaled recovery
    Publication number: 20020147835
    Abstract: In the scaled recovery system of the present invention, clients delay for an additional period of time prior to attempting to access a previously unavailable resource that has since become available, rather than accessing the shared resource at full speed once an initial back off interval is over. Through the continual increment and decrement of client back off intervals, the present invention provides dynamic tuning of overall system load in the case of overloaded shared resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: Peter Zatloukal, David Byron Shefner