Patents by Inventor Gregory P. McGrath

Gregory P. McGrath 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).

  • Share resources and increase reliability in a server environment
    Patent number: 8082470
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a low-cost high density compute environment with increased fail-over support through resource sharing and resources chaining. In one embodiment, one of a number of servers qualified to share resources is elected as a resource server. The shared resource can be firmware memory, hard-drive, co-processor, etc. The elected server responds to requests from individual requesters and provides the responses, such as firmware images. In one embodiment, all the blade servers on a rack use an image server for their firmware image so that these blade servers can automatically adopt a common personality across the entire rack. If the elected image server fails, a dynamic process elects an alternate image server. In one embodiment, among a set of qualified servers, only one is actively elected at a given time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Rothman, Vincent J. Zimmer, Gregory P. McGrath
  • Share Resources and Increase Reliability in a Server Environment
    Publication number: 20100153603
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a low-cost high density compute environment with increased fail-over support through resource sharing and resources chaining. In one embodiment, one of a number of servers qualified to share resources is elected as a resource server. The shared resource can be firmware memory, hard-drive, co-processor, etc. The elected server responds to requests from individual requesters and provides the responses, such as firmware images. In one embodiment, all the blade servers on a rack use an image server for their firmware image so that these blade servers can automatically adopt a common personality across the entire rack. If the elected image server fails, a dynamic process elects an alternate image server. In one embodiment, among a set of qualified servers, only one is actively elected at a given time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Michael A. Rothman, Vincent J. Zimmer, Gregory P. McGrath
  • Share resources and increase reliability in a server environment
    Patent number: 7698487
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a low-cost high density compute environment with increased fail-over support through resource sharing and resources chaining. In one embodiment, one of a number of servers qualified to share resources is elected as a resource server. The shared resource can be firmware memory, hard-drive, co-processor, etc. The elected server responds to requests from individual requesters and provides the responses, such as firmware images. In one embodiment, all the blade servers on a rack use an image server for their firmware image so that these blade servers can automatically adopt a common personality across the entire rack. If the elected image server fails, a dynamic process elects an alternate image server. In one embodiment, among a set of qualified servers, only one is actively elected at a given time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Rothman, Vincent J. Zimmer, Gregory P. McGrath