Patents by Inventor Jay Kurtz

Jay Kurtz 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 and apparatus for implementing feedback directed deferral of nonessential DASD operations
    Publication number: 20070198774
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing feedback directed deferral on nonessential direct access storage device (DASD) operations. A kernel DASD I/O manager maintains a queue depth count value for a DASD unit and maintains a busy flag that indicates when the queue depth count value is greater than a predefined threshold. The kernel DASD I/O manager defers optional operations responsive to the busy flag being set for the DASD unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Larry Cravens, Jay Kurtz, Kenneth Linn, Glen Nelson, Kenneth Vossen, Donald Ward
  • Virtual flight recorder hosted by system tracing facility
    Publication number: 20070050683
    Abstract: An apparatus, program product and method utilize a virtual flight recorder to harvest a subset of events being collected by an active system tracing facility during operation of a computer system. The virtual flight recorder is “virtual” from the sense that it is not specifically instrumented into a component with which the virtual flight recorder is associated, which eliminates the burden on developers to specifically instrument components of interest, and minimizes the impact on system performance as a result of performance metric collection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Attinella, Larry Cravens, Michael Denney, Edwin Grazier, Jay Kurtz, David Legler