Patents by Inventor James Allen Parker

James Allen Parker 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).

  • System and method for restoring a distributed checkpointed database
    Patent number: 5845292
    Abstract: For use with a central database associated with a server of a network, the central database having distributed counterparts stored in volatile memories of clients of the network to allow operations to be performed locally thereon, the central database further having multiple checkpoints and a stable log stored in the server for tracking operations on the central database to allow corresponding operations to be made to the multiple checkpoints, the stable log having tails stored in the volatile memories to track operations on corresponding ones of the distributed counterparts, the distributed counterparts to corruption, a system for, and method of, restoring a distributed counterpart stored in one of the volatile memories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Philip L. Bohannon, James Allen Parker, Rajeev Rastogi, Abraham Silberschatz