Patents by Inventor Gary F. Tom

Gary F. Tom 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).

  • Distributed pipes and fifos in a multiprocessor
    Patent number: 5968134
    Abstract: A multiprocessor that includes a virtual file system providing a file system interface to user application code. This interface allows users to access files in many types of file systems in a consistent, file system-independent manner. In a preferred embodiment, the higher interface of the file system is the Posix file system interface, though it can be any file system interface supporting the capabilities required by a user process. The Posix file system supports regular files, pipes, fifos and special files.A pipe server, a pipe library and a name server together implement the fifo semantics required by the Posix standard for Posix processes. The present invention provides these fifo capabilities to any process which uses the Posix interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Tandem Computers Incorporated
    Inventors: Franco Putzolu, Srinivasa D. Murthy, Alan M. Usas, Gary F. Tom, Minoo Gupta, Eric G. Strellis