Patents by Inventor James R. H. Whyte

James R. H. Whyte 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 determining participation in a distributed transaction
    Patent number: 7953716
    Abstract: A method and system for determining whether a plurality of participants who are participating in a distributed transaction have registered their intention to commit their part of the transaction with a transaction manager, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a message from a participant, the message comprising a character sequence identifying the participant and the part of the transaction which the participant is processing; analyzing the character sequence to determine whether the character sequence further comprises an identifier for identifying whether a subsequent message is to be received by a second participant; and in dependence on the identifier identifying that there are no further subsequent messages to be received, informing each of the participants to commit their part of the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: James R. H. Whyte
  • METHOD FOR DETERMINING PARTICIPATION IN A DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION
    Publication number: 20090113431
    Abstract: A method and system for determining whether a plurality of participants who are participating in a distributed transaction have registered their intention to commit their part of the transaction with a transaction manager, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a message from a participant, the message comprising a character sequence identifying the participant and the part of the transaction which the participant is processing; analyzing the character sequence to determine whether the character sequence further comprises an identifier for identifying whether a subsequent message is to be received by a second participant; and in dependence on the identifier identifying that there are no further subsequent messages to be received, informing each of the participants to commit their part of the transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventor: James R. H. Whyte
  • Method for determining participation in a distributed transaction
    Patent number: 7487160
    Abstract: A method for determining whether a plurality of participants who are participating in a distributed transaction have registered their intention to commit their part of the transaction with a transaction manager, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a message from a participant, the message comprising a character sequence identifying the participant and the part of the transaction which the participant is processing; analysing the character sequence to determine whether the character sequence further comprises an identifier for identifying whether a subsequent message is to be received by a second participant; and in dependence on the identifier identifying that there are no further subsequent messages to be received, informing each of the participants to commit their part of the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: James R. H. Whyte