Patents by Inventor Joerg Droste

Joerg Droste 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).

  • Patent number: 8689222
    Abstract: A method, a system and a computer program product for controlling the hardware priority of hardware threads in a data processing system. A Thread Priority Control (TPC) utility assigns a primary level and one or more secondary levels of hardware priority to a hardware thread. When a hardware thread initiates execution in the absence of a system call, the TPC utility enables execution based on the primary level. When the hardware thread initiates execution within a system call, the TPC utility dynamically adjusts execution from the primary level to the secondary level associated with the system call. The TPC utility adjusts hardware priority levels in order to: (a) raise the hardware priority of one hardware thread relative to another; (b) reduce energy consumed by the hardware thread; and (c) fulfill requirements of time critical hardware sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vaijayanthimala K. Anand, Joerg Droste, Bruce Mealey, Bret Ronald Olszewski
  • Publication number: 20100115522
    Abstract: A method, a system and a computer program product for controlling the hardware priority of hardware threads in a data processing system. A Thread Priority Control (TPC) utility assigns a primary level and one or more secondary levels of hardware priority to a hardware thread. When a hardware thread initiates execution in the absence of a system call, the TPC utility enables execution based on the primary level. When the hardware thread initiates execution within a system call, the TPC utility dynamically adjusts execution from the primary level to the secondary level associated with the system call. The TPC utility adjusts hardware priority levels in order to: (a) raise the hardware priority of one hardware thread relative to another; (b) reduce energy consumed by the hardware thread; and (c) fulfill requirements of time critical hardware sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vaijayanthimala K. Anand, Joerg Droste, Bruce Mealey, Bret R. Olszewski
  • Patent number: 7475422
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a process which will limit multiple active sessions of the same e-mail account to be active in multiple computers. Moreover, this embodiment allows the user of the email system to query the active session on the network with the ability to disable the active session in order to have the ability to open a new session from the user's present location. The process is done by querying a session database to find the state of the e-mail account if the first login attempt fails because of another open session. These safeguards are introduced to prevent multiple login sessions to an Internet Browser based email service for given login credentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Damon R Bull, Mark Trbojevic, Venkataravikumar Dadi, Joerg Droste