Patents by Inventor Emeline Yvonne Germain

Emeline Yvonne Germain 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, method, and program for managing I/O requests to a storage device
    Patent number: 6408348
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method, and program for limiting input/output (I/O) requests from an application program to a storage device to facilitate the processing of data in memory. A determination is made as to whether an amount of a set of data in memory exceeds at least one threshold. At least one of multiple paths to the storage device is indicated as blocked to I/O requests from the application program. Each indicated blocked path is available for processing the set of data in memory. An I/O request from the application program is received and a determination is made as to whether the received I/O request intends to access the storage device using one indicated blocked path. The I/O request is denied access to the storage device via the blocked path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence Carter Blount, Emeline Yvonne Germain, Vernon John Legvold, William Frank Micka, Warren Keith Stanley, Stephen Charles West