Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Michael Dangel

Jeffrey Michael Dangel 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 system for automatically performing an operation on multiple computer systems within a cluster
    Patent number: 5946463
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically performing one or more operations on multiple computer systems within a cluster are disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, a begin operations command construct is defined within an input file. In addition, an input command indicating one or more operations to be performed on at least two computer systems within the cluster and an end operations command construct are defined. In response to a selected input, one or more operations indicated by the input command are automatically performed on at least two computer systems. In accordance with one embodiment, the begin operations command construct indicates selected computer systems within the cluster on which the one or more operations are to be performed and whether the operations are to be performed on the selected computer systems serially or in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Duncan Carr, Jeffrey Michael Dangel, Michael Nelson Galassi, Kevin Forress Rodgers, Emy Ying-Mei Tseng, Thomas Van Weaver