Patents by Inventor Gary S. Puchkoff
Gary S. Puchkoff 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).
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Publication number: 20120254467Abstract: A method includes receiving a message in a JavaScript object notation (JSON) format from a first processor, converting the message from the JSON format into a hypertext markup language (HTML) format, and presenting the content of the message in the HTML format to a user on a display.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2011Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Michael P. Kasper, Ulrich Kurz, Gary S. Puchkoff, Bertold Reddemann, Peter D. Van Dyke
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Patent number: 8281315Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include a system and storage medium for managing computer processing functions in a multi-processor computer environment. The system includes a physical processor, a standard logical processor, an assist logical processor sharing a same logical partition as the standard logical processor, and a single operating system instance associated with the logical partition, the single operating system instance including a switch-to service and a switch-from service. The system also includes a dispatch component managed by the single operating system instance. Upon invoking the switch-to service by standard code, the switch-to service checks to see if an assist logical processor is online and, if so, it updates an integrated assist field of a work element block associated with the task for indicating the task is eligible to be executed on the assist logical processor. The switch-to service also assigns a work queue to the work element block.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Donald F. Ault, Jose R. Castano, Jeffrey P. Kubala, Robert J. Maddison, Bernard R. Pierce, Gary S. Puchkoff, Peter J. Relson, Robert R. Rogers, Donald W. Schmidt, Leslie W. Wyman
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Patent number: 8276155Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include a system and storage medium for managing computer processing functions in a multi-processor computer environment. The system includes a physical processor, a standard logical processor, an assist logical processor sharing a same logical partition as the standard logical processor, and a single operating system instance associated with the logical partition, the single operating system instance including a switch-to service and a switch-from service. The system also includes a dispatch component managed by the single operating system instance. Upon invoking the switch-to service by standard code, the switch-to service checks to see if an assist logical processor is online and, if so, it updates an integrated assist field of a work element block associated with the task for indicating the task is eligible to be executed on the assist logical processor. The switch-to service also assigns a work queue to the work element block.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2011Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Donald F. Ault, Jose R. Castano, Jeffrey P. Kubala, Robert J. Maddison, Bernard R. Pierce, Gary S. Puchkoff, Peter J. Relson, Robert R. Rogers, Donald W. Schmidt, Leslie W. Wyman
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Publication number: 20110113434Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include a system and storage medium for managing computer processing functions in a multi-processor computer environment. The system includes a physical processor, a standard logical processor, an assist logical processor sharing a same logical partition as the standard logical processor, and a single operating system instance associated with the logical partition, the single operating system instance including a switch-to service and a switch-from service. The system also includes a dispatch component managed by the single operating system instance. Upon invoking the switch-to service by standard code, the switch-to service checks to see if an assist logical processor is online and, if so, it updates an integrated assist field of a work element block associated with the task for indicating the task is eligible to be executed on the assist logical processor. The switch-to service also assigns a work queue to the work element block.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2011Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Donald F. Ault, Jose R. Castano, Jeffrey P. Kubala, Robert J. Maddison, Bernard R. Pierce, Gary S. Puchkoff, Peter J. Relson, Robert R. Rogers, Donald W. Schmidt, Leslie W. Wyman
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Publication number: 20080189714Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include a system and storage medium for managing computer processing functions in a multi-processor computer environment. The system includes a physical processor, a standard logical processor, an assist logical processor sharing a same logical partition as the standard logical processor, and a single operating system instance associated with the logical partition, the single operating system instance including a switch-to service and a switch-from service. The system also includes a dispatch component managed by the single operating system instance. Upon invoking the switch-to service by standard code, the switch-to service checks to see if an assist logical processor is online and, if so, it updates an integrated assist field of a work element block associated with the task for indicating the task is eligible to be executed on the assist logical processor. The switch-to service also assigns a work queue to the work element block.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: August 7, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Donald F. Ault, Jose R. Castano, Jeffrey P. Kubala, Robert J. Maddison, Bernard R. Pierce, Gary S. Puchkoff, Peter J. Relson, Robert R. Rogers, Donald W. Schmidt, Leslie W. Wyman
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Patent number: 7392524Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include a method, system, and storage medium for managing computer processing functions in a multi-processor computer environment that includes a standard logical processor and an assist logical processor, each of which share the same operating system instance within a logical partition. The method includes invoking a switch-to service by standard code. The standard code is running on a standard logical processor and is executing a task. The switch-to service checks to see if an assist logical processor is online, and it if finds one, the switch-to service updates an integrated assist field of a work element block associated with the task and assigns a queue to the work element block. The task is dispatched, in accordance with business rules identified in a system control block, on either of said assist logical processor or said standard logical processor.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2004Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Donald F. Ault, Jose R. Castano, Jeffrey P. Kubala, Robert J. Maddison, Bernard R. Pierce, Gary S. Puchkoff, Peter J. Relson, Robert R. Rogers, Donald W. Schmidt, Leslie W. Wyman
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Publication number: 20040019898Abstract: A local access proxy is used to access a requested object, when the requested object is located in the same address space as the requester of the object. The local access proxy is built by a container of the address space, when the container receives a reference to the object. The local access proxy provides decoupling of one or more object references to the object from management of virtual memory copies of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2003Publication date: January 29, 2004Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jeffrey A. Frey, Carroll E. Fulkerson, Rodney A. Little, Gary S. Puchkoff, Christopher P. Vignola
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Publication number: 20030177182Abstract: Ensuring that a given transactional unit of work arrives at an appropriate server instance. A server instance receives a request that is associated with a unit of work. The server instance that received the request determines whether it is responsible for the unit of work associated with that request. When the server instance is responsible for the unit of work, the server instance processes the request. When the server instance is not responsible for the unit of work, it attempts to register its interest in the unit of work. If this attempt is successful, then the server instance can process the request. If the attempt is unsuccessful, then the responsible server instance is located and the request is forwarded to the responsible server instance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2003Publication date: September 18, 2003Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Carl E. Clark, Jeffrey A. Frey, Carroll E. Fulkerson, Rodney A. Little, Gary S. Puchkoff
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Patent number: 6594671Abstract: A server instance includes a first region to perform one or more privileged functions and a second region to perform one or more non-privileged functions. Thus, the privileged functions are separate from the non-privileged functions. The first region includes at least a portion of an object request broker, which is used in communicating with one or more clients coupled to the server instance. The second region executes non-privileged application code, and can be replicated within the server instance based on workload management criteria.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1999Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jeffrey D. Aman, Jeffrey A. Frey, Rodney A. Little, Gary S. Puchkoff, Nancy P. Riggs
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Patent number: 6567818Abstract: A set of management policies, selectable by the customer at object installation time, is used to manage one or more instances of an object. The set of policies includes at least one of an activation isolation policy, a passivation policy, a flush policy, and a refresh policy. The policies are managed by one or more containers of the computing environment.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1999Date of Patent: May 20, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jeffrey A. Frey, Carroll E. Fulkerson, Jr., Rodney A. Little, Gary S. Puchkoff
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Patent number: 6560609Abstract: Management functions typically performed by containers of a server instance are delegated to resource managers coupled to the server instance. For example, responsibility for such management functions as locking, security control, multisystem caching and commitment control are removed from the containers and delegated to the resource managers. This enables ongoing improvements and functional extensions provided in the underlying resource managers to be immediately leveraged transparently in the server instance.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1999Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jeffrey A. Frey, Carroll E. Fulkerson, Jr., Rodney A. Little, Gary S. Puchkoff
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Patent number: 6505210Abstract: Resolution of a compound name of an object may indicate that a disjunction exists within the object name. This disjunction represents a foreign binding indicating that the resolve cannot be completed on one system or an alias name of the object. When a disjunction in the object name is identified, the object associated with the disjunction is obtained. Thereafter, a resolve operation on that object is performed using at least a portion of the object name.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1999Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jeffrey A. Frey, Timothy J. Hahn, Theodore R. Maeurer, Gary S. Puchkoff
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Patent number: 6502103Abstract: A composed business object of a server instance is provided. The server instance is coupled to a plurality of resource managers using a container of the server instance. A data object corresponding to the business object is populated with data retrieved using the plurality of resource managers. Thus, a business object is composed of data from multiple and/or diverse resource managers using a single container.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1999Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jeffrey A. Frey, Carroll E. Fulkerson, Jr., Rodney A. Little, Gary S. Puchkoff
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Patent number: 6442564Abstract: Workload management of a computing environment is facilitated. A location service agent located within a server instance of the computing environment is used to facilitate workload management of the computing environment. The location service agent receives a request for an object of the computing environment. The location service agent then requests a workload manager of the server instance to determine which server instance of a plurality of server instances is to handle the request. The request is forwarded to the selected server instance using a direct reference.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1999Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jeffrey A. Frey, Rodney A. Little, Gary S. Puchkoff
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Patent number: 6425014Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided which provide connection information about connections to communication protocol stacks in a cluster of data processing systems by distributing location information between communication protocol stacks in a group of stacks within the cluster. The distributed location information about addresses and operating system images or data processing systems of communication protocol stacks is utilized to generate a list of addresses corresponding to stacks in the group so that this information may be provided to applications requesting the information from the communication protocol stacks.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1999Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: John Andrew Aiken, Jr., Michael Edward Baskey, Sue L. Huang, Gary S. Puchkoff
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Patent number: 6418447Abstract: An object factory is registered under multiple interface names. The interface names have an inheritance relationship with an object implementation associated with the object factory. The names are registered in a repository of a name space, such as a Life Cycle Repository. Thus, an object factory can be located using any one of the interface names.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1999Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jeffrey A. Frey, Rodney A. Little, Theodore R. Maeurer, Gary S. Puchkoff
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Patent number: 6122631Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing dynamically controlling access to files in a client/server system. A client wanting access to a file first requests a token from an object server. The object server generates the token as a function of the file name and ephemeral information and provides the token to both the client and the file system. Upon receiving the token from the object server, the client presents an access request to the file system, using the token rather than the file name as an identifier. The file system compares the received identifier with the file names in the specified directory as well as with a list of valid tokens that it maintains. If the identifier corresponds to a valid token for a file in the directory, the access request is granted. Otherwise, the access request is denied. The procedure is transparent to the client, which uses the token in the same manner as it would use a regular file name.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1997Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert R. Berbec, John L. Brady, James M. Caffrey, Joanne T. Crimi, Arthur P. Fenaroli, Matthew C. Iatridis, Gary S. Puchkoff, Roberto J. Sanchez, Madeline R. Whalen, Joseph A. Williams