Patents by Inventor Gordon J. Bowring

Gordon J. Bowring 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).

  • Replication of operations on objects distributed in a storage system
    Patent number: 8306947
    Abstract: One embodiment is a method that reads audit from an audit trail of a source database distributed across multiple storage systems with independent audit trails and then replicates the audit trail to a target database distributed across multiple storage systems with independent audit trails without manual coordination by a database administrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sean L. Broeder, Gordon J. Bowring, James J. Collison, Vilmar Olsen, David W. Birdsall, Gary M. Gilbert
  • REPLICATION OF OPERATIONS ON OBJECTS DISTRIBUTED IN A STORAGE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100114817
    Abstract: One embodiment is a method that reads audit from an audit trail of a source database distributed across multiple storage systems with independent audit trails and then replicates the audit trail to a target database distributed across multiple storage systems with independent audit trails without manual coordination by a database administrator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Sean L. Broeder, Gordon J. Bowring, James J. Collison, Vilmar Olsen, David W. Birdsall, Gary M. Gilbert
  • Remote duplicate databased facility with triple contingency protection
    Patent number: 5799323
    Abstract: A primary computer system has a database, application programs that modify the local database, and a transaction manager that stores audit records in a local audit trail reflecting those application program modifications to the local database. A plurality of parallel backup systems are used to provide "triple contingency protection" of the data on the primary computer system. However, if the primary system suffers a sudden catastrophic failure, the parallel backup systems will generally be left in inconsistent states. To restart the application programs on one of the backup system, the parallel backup are first synchronized with each other, and then transaction processing is restarted with one of the backup systems as the new primary system, and the other backup systems as the backups to the new primary system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Assignee: Tandem Computers, Inc.
    Inventors: Malcolm Mosher, Jr., Gordon J. Bowring