Patents by Inventor James Joseph Lippard

James Joseph Lippard 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).

  • Distributed computing system and method for distributing user requests to replicated network servers
    Patent number: 8683075
    Abstract: Routing requests for data objects from clients includes receiving a request for a data object from a client, providing content servers capable of serving data objects, determining a server from the content servers, and informing the client of an address associated with the determined server accessible by the selected route. Determining a server includes, for each content server, identifying routes between the content server and the client, determining traversal times for the routes, and selecting a route from among the routes based on the traversal times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignees: Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc., Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Rodney Lance Joffe, Barry A. Dykes, Jason Alan Brittain, Victor Joseph Oppleman, Brian Everett Pettingell, James Joseph Lippard, Ian Burke Vandeventer, Brett Dean Watson, Steven Michael Hotz, Nils Herbert McCarthy
  • Method and apparatus for balancing the process load on network servers according to network and serve based policies
    Patent number: 6185619
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a method and system provides the ability to assign requests for data objects made by clients among multiple network servers. The invention provides a distributed computing system and methods to assign user requests to replicated servers contained by the distributed computing system in a manner that attempts to meet the goals of a particular routing policy. Policies may include minimizing the amount of time for the request to be completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignees: Genuity Inc., GTE Service Corporation
    Inventors: Rodney Lance Joffe, Barry A. Dykes, Jason Alan Brittain, Victor Joseph Oppleman, Brian Everett Pettingell, James Joseph Lippard, Ian Burke Vandeventer, Brett Dean Watson, Steven Michael Hotz, Nils Herbert Mc Carthy