Patents by Inventor Gary J. DeVal

Gary J. DeVal 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).

  • Patent number: 8051266
    Abstract: The present invention manages the execution of multiple AMM cycles to reduce or eliminate any overlap. Specifically, the present invention provides an external supervisory process to monitor the AMM behavior of VMs on one or more nodes, and intervene when coincident AMM activity appears to be imminent. If AMM patterns suggest that two VMs are likely to perform a (e.g., a major) AMM cycle simultaneously (or with significant overlap) in the near future, the supervisory process can trigger one of the VMs to AMM immediately, or at the first ‘safe’ interval prior to the predicted AMM collision. This will have the effect of desynchronizing the AMM behavior of the VMs and maintaining AMM latency for both VMs within the expected bounds for their independent operation, without any inter-VM effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gary J. DeVal, Curtis E. Hrischuk
  • Publication number: 20080307183
    Abstract: The present invention manages the execution of multiple AMM cycles to reduce or eliminate any overlap. Specifically, the present invention provides an external supervisory process to monitor the AMM behavior of VMs on one or more nodes, and intervene when coincident AMM activity appears to be imminent. If AMM patterns suggest that two VMs are likely to perform a (e.g., a major) AMM cycle simultaneously (or with significant overlap) in the near future, the supervisory process can trigger one of the VMs to AMM immediately, or at the first ‘safe’ interval prior to the predicted AMM collision. This will have the effect of desynchronizing the AMM behavior of the VMs and maintaining AMM latency for both VMs within the expected bounds for their independent operation, without any inter-VM effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventors: Gary J. DeVal, Curtis E. Hrischuk
  • Publication number: 20080162709
    Abstract: A system for processing application protocol requests is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an Application Protocol Assignment System having a controller element that assigns each of one or more application protocol requests to a select one or more of a plurality of application servers according to a memory utilization of each of the plurality of application servers. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: CURTIS E. HRISCHUK, Gary J. Deval, Michael J. Spreitzer, Jin Feng Hu