Patents by Inventor Greg M. Dritschler

Greg M. Dritschler 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).

  • Method for controlling the number of servers in a hierarchical resource environment
    Patent number: 7734676
    Abstract: The invention relates to the control of servers which process client work requests in a computer system on the basis of resource consumption. Each server contains multiple server instances (also called “execution units”) which execute different client work requests in parallel. A workload manager determines the total number of server containers and server instances in order to achieve the goals of the work requests. The number of server instances started in each server container depends on the resource consumption of the server instances in each container and on the resource constraints, service goals and service goal achievements of the work units to be executed. At predetermined intervals during the execution of the work units the server instances are sampled to check whether they are active or inactive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Greg M. Dritschler, Guenter Vater, Robert Vaupel, Peter B. Yocom
  • Method and apparatus for controlling the number of servers in a hierarchical resource environment
    Publication number: 20030005028
    Abstract: The invention relates to the control of servers which process client work requests in a computer system on the basis of resource consumption. Each server contains multiple server instances (also called “execution units”) which execute different client work requests in parallel. A workload manager determines the total number of server containers and server instances in order to achieve the goals of the work requests. The number of server instances started in each server container depends on the resource consumption of the server instances in each container and on the resource constraints, service goals and service goal achievements of the work units to be executed. At predetermined intervals during the execution of the work units the server instances are sampled to check whether they are active or inactive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Greg M. Dritschler, Guenter Vater, Robert Vaupel, Peter B. Yocom