Patents by Inventor Frances Chang

Frances Chang 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).

  • Adaptive timeout value setting for distributed computing environment (DCE) applications
    Patent number: 6526433
    Abstract: An adaptive timeout value setting is determined for DCE applications, wherein the timeout value setting is adapted and adjusted according to environmental factors and communication conditions between a client/server pair. The adaptive timeout value setting takes into consideration the communication time between a client and a server in each client/server pair in determining and setting a timeout value for each pair. The timeout value for a client/server pair is adjusted in a dynamic fashion so that the client is able to be more adaptive to real environment changes and so that the server's performance is not degraded due to ineffective timeouts. The system and method determines an adaptive timeout value setting in distributed computing environment (DCE) applications for a client/server pair wherein each pair has a client system and a server system. A server response time of the server system is tracked to a remote procedure call from the client system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frances Chang, I-Lung Kao, Chiang-lung Lin