Patents by Inventor Gregory David Doolittle

Gregory David Doolittle 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, system and program products for managing thread pools of a computing environment to avoid deadlock situations
    Patent number: 8181183
    Abstract: Deadlock situations within a computing environment are avoided by properly managing pools of threads used to service requests of the computing environment. When a server of the computing environment receives a request to be processed and that request is waiting on a response from a client of the computing environment, the set of eligible thread pools for the response is dynamically altered. This dynamic altering allows the response to be serviced by a thread pool different from the thread pool servicing the request, thereby avoiding a deadlock situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory David Doolittle, Timothy Peter Krein, Scott Thomas Marcotte
  • Method, system and program products for managing thread pools of a computing environment to avoid deadlock situations by dynamically altering eligible thread pools
    Patent number: 6898617
    Abstract: Deadlock situations within a computing environment are avoided by properly managing pools of threads used to service requests of the computing environment. When a server of the computing environment receives a request to be processed and that request is waiting on a response from a client of the computing environment, the set of eligible thread pools for the response is dynamically altered. This dynamic altering allows the response to be serviced by a thread pool different from the thread pool servicing the request, thereby avoiding a deadlock situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory David Doolittle, Timothy Peter Krein, Scott Thomas Marcotte
  • METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING THREAD POOLS OF A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT TO AVOID DEADLOCK SITUATIONS
    Publication number: 20020194377
    Abstract: Deadlock situations within a computing environment are avoided by properly managing pools of threads used to service requests of the computing environment. When a server of the computing environment receives a request to be processed and that request is waiting on a response from a client of the computing environment, the set of eligible thread pools for the response is dynamically altered. This dynamic altering allows the response to be serviced by a thread pool different from the thread pool servicing the request, thereby avoiding a deadlock situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 1999
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: GREGORY DAVID DOOLITTLE, TIMOTHY PETER KREIN, SCOTT THOMAS MARCOTTE