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).
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Patent number: 11755435Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Michael Howard Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
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Publication number: 20190303255Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Michael Howard Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
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Patent number: 10394672Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 25, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Michael Howard Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
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Patent number: 8205137Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 24, 2008Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James Patrick Allen, Thomas Stanley Mathews, Ravi A. Shankar, Satya Prakash Sharma, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
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Publication number: 20110173493Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Michael Howard Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
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Patent number: 7971004Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 6, 2009Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yu-Cheng Hsu, David Frank Mannenbach, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
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Patent number: 7937616Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2005Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Michael Howard Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
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Patent number: 7774785Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2005Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Howard Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
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Patent number: 7743372Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2005Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Internatinal Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Michael Howard Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
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Publication number: 20090119463Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2009Publication date: May 7, 2009Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yu-Cheng Hsu, David Frank Mannenbach, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
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Publication number: 20090077661Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: James Patrick Allen, Thomas Stanley Mathews, Ravi A. Shankar, Satya Prakash Sharma, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
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Patent number: 7490203Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 12, 2005Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yu-Cheng Hsu, David Frank Mannenbach, Glenn Rowan Wightwick
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Patent number: 7472332Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 26, 2005Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James Patrick Allen, Thomas Stanley Mathews, Ravi A. Shankar, Satya Prakash Sharma, Glenn Rowan Wightwick