Patents by Inventor Glenn Rowan Wightwick

Glenn Rowan Wightwick 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: 11755435
    Abstract: A first logical partition in a first processing complex of a server cluster is operated in an active mode and a second logical partition in the processing complex is operated in a standby mode. Upon detection of a failure in a second processing complex of the server cluster. the standby mode logical partition in the first processing complex is activated to an active mode. In one embodiment, partition resources are transferred from an active mode logical partition to the logical partition activated from standby mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Michael Howard Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
  • Publication number: 20190303255
    Abstract: A first logical partition in a first processing complex of a server cluster is operated in an active mode and a second logical partition in the processing complex is operated in a standby mode. Upon detection of a failure in a second processing complex of the server cluster. the standby mode logical partition in the first processing complex is activated to an active mode. In one embodiment, partition resources are transferred from an active mode logical partition to the logical partition activated from standby mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Michael Howard Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
  • Patent number: 10394672
    Abstract: A first logical partition in a first processing complex of a server cluster is operated in an active mode and a second logical partition in the processing complex is operated in a standby mode. Upon detection of a failure in a second processing complex of the server cluster. the standby mode logical partition in the first processing complex is activated to an active mode. In one embodiment, partition resources are transferred from an active mode logical partition to the logical partition activated from standby mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Michael Howard Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
  • Patent number: 8205137
    Abstract: An apparatus for improving the reliability of host data stored on Fiber Channel attached storage subsystems by performing end-to-end data integrity checks. When a read or write operation is initiated, an initial checksum for data in the read/write operation is generated and associated with the data, wherein the association exists through a plurality of layers of software and attached storage subsystems. The initial checksum is passed with the data in the read/write path. When a layer of software in the read/write path receives the initial checksum and data, the layer performs an integrity check of the data, which includes generating another checksum and comparing it to the initial checksum. If the checksums do not match, the read/write operation fails and the error is logged. If the checksums match, the integrity check is repeated through each layer in the read/write path to enable detecting data corruption at the point of source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Patrick Allen, Thomas Stanley Mathews, Ravi A. Shankar, Satya Prakash Sharma, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
  • Publication number: 20110173493
    Abstract: A first logical partition in a first processing complex of a server cluster is operated in an active mode and a second logical partition in the processing complex is operated in a standby mode. Upon detection of a failure in a second processing complex of the server cluster. the standby mode logical partition in the first processing complex is activated to an active mode. In one embodiment, partition resources are transferred from an active mode logical partition to the logical partition activated from standby mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Michael Howard Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
  • Patent number: 7971004
    Abstract: Provided are a system and article of manufacture for dumping data in processing systems to a shared storage. A plurality of processing systems receive a signal indicating an event. Each of the processing systems write data used by the processing system to a shared storage device in response to receiving the signal, wherein each processing system writes the data to the shared storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Cheng Hsu, David Frank Mannenbach, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
  • Patent number: 7937616
    Abstract: A first logical partition in a first processing complex of a server cluster is operated in an active mode and a second logical partition in the processing complex is operated in a standby mode. Upon detection of a failure in a second processing complex of the server cluster. the standby mode logical partition in the first processing complex is activated to an active mode. In one embodiment, partition resources are transferred from an active mode logical partition to the logical partition activated from standby mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Michael Howard Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
  • Patent number: 7774785
    Abstract: A first logical partition in a first processing complex of a server cluster is operated at a first level of a software code. Software code in a second logical partition in the same processing complex is changed to a second level. Processing operations are transferred from the first logical partition in the first processing complex to a third logical partition in a second processing complex of the server cluster. In another aspect, the transferring of processing operations includes quiescing the first logical partition to cause a failover of processing operations from the first logical partition in the first processing complex, to the third logical partition in the second processing complex. In yet another aspect, a failback operation is performed and a first portion of the processing operations are transferred from the third logical partition in the second processing complex, to the second logical partition in the first processing complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Howard Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
  • Patent number: 7743372
    Abstract: A first logical partition in a first processing complex of a server cluster is operated at a first level of a software code. Software code in a second logical partition in the same processing complex is updated to a second level. Processing operations are assumed by the second logical partition operating at the second level of software code. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Internatinal Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Michael Howard Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
  • Publication number: 20090119463
    Abstract: Provided are a system and article of manufacture for dumping data in processing systems to a shared storage. A plurality of processing systems receive a signal indicating an event. Each of the processing systems write data used by the processing system to a shared storage device in response to receiving the signal, wherein each processing system writes the data to the shared storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Cheng Hsu, David Frank Mannenbach, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
  • Publication number: 20090077661
    Abstract: A method for improving the reliability of host data stored on Fibre Channel attached storage subsystems by performing end-to-end data integrity checks. When a read or write operation is initiated, an initial checksum for data in the read/write operation is generated and associated with the data, wherein the association exists through a plurality of layers of software and attached storage subsystems. The initial checksum is passed with the data in the read/write path. When a layer of software in the read/write path receives the initial checksum and data, the layer performs an integrity check of the data, which includes generating another checksum and comparing it to the initial checksum. If the checksums do not match, the read/write operation fails and the error is logged. If the checksums match, the integrity check is repeated through each layer in the read/write path to enable detecting data corruption at the point of source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Patrick Allen, Thomas Stanley Mathews, Ravi A. Shankar, Satya Prakash Sharma, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
  • Patent number: 7490203
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system and program for dumping data in processing systems to a shared storage. A plurality of processing systems receive a signal indicating an event. Each of the processing systems write data used by the processing system to a shared storage device in response to receiving the signal, wherein each processing system writes the data to the shared storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Cheng Hsu, David Frank Mannenbach, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
  • Patent number: 7472332
    Abstract: A method for improving the reliability of host data stored on Fiber Channel attached storage subsystems by performing end-to-end data integrity checks. When a read or write operation is initiated, an initial checksum for data in the read/write operation is generated and associated with the data, wherein the association exists through a plurality of layers of software and attached storage subsystems. The initial checksum is passed with the data in the read/write path. When a layer of software in the read/write path receives the initial checksum and data, the layer performs an integrity check of the data, which includes generating another checksum and comparing it to the initial checksum. If the checksums do not match, the read/write operation fails and the error is logged. If the checksums match, the integrity check is repeated through each layer in the read/write path to enable detecting data corruption at the point of source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Patrick Allen, Thomas Stanley Mathews, Ravi A. Shankar, Satya Prakash Sharma, Glenn Rowan Wightwick