Patents by Inventor Geoffrey Robert Atkinson

Geoffrey Robert Atkinson 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).

  • Resilience in a multi-computer system
    Patent number: 6460144
    Abstract: A multi-node computer system is described which includes a number of active nodes and a standby node. Each node hosts a server installation. Each server has a system disk, and a recovery disk, which holds a synchronised recovery copy of data held on the system disk. In the event of failure of a node, a recovery process is run to reconfigure the system, by connecting the recovery disk corresponding to the failed computer to the system disk of the standby computer, and copying the contents of this recovery disk to the system disk. This causes the server in the failed node to migrate to the standby node, which thus becomes an active node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: International Computers Limited
    Inventors: Derek William Ashcroft, Geoffrey Robert Atkinson, Philip McKirgan, Stephen Paul Tickhill