Patents by Inventor Franklin Emmert McCune

Franklin Emmert McCune 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).

  • Publication number: 20090222599
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for enqueue prioritization. The apparatus for enqueue prioritization is provided with a plurality of modules configured to functionally execute the necessary steps of anticipating a need to access a computing resource, generating a dummy request, the dummy request configured to hold a place for an actual request in a queue of requests to access the computing resource, and generating an actual request to access the computing resource, wherein the actual request is configured to replace the dummy request in the queue. These modules in the described embodiments include a forecast module, a dummy generator, and a request generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Douglas Lee Lehr, Franklin Emmert McCune, David Charles Reed, Max Douglas Smith
  • Publication number: 20080256312
    Abstract: A method is disclosed to detect and repair a broken dataset. The method creates and maintains a backup log and an update log for a dataset. If the method finds a dataset structural error, then the method deletes the corrupted dataset, obtains the most current backup copy of the dataset, obtains all dataset updates made after the most current backup copy of the dataset was saved, and generates a recovered dataset using the most current backup and the dataset updates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Douglas Lee Lehr, Franklin Emmert McCune, David Charles Reed, Max Douglas Smith