Patents by Inventor JOHN BUISSON

JOHN BUISSON 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: 10768983
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating a quorum-based coordination of broker health for management of resources for application servers in an on-demand services environment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes monitoring, via health checkers, health of a cluster of brokers in a distributed environment having application servers in communication over a network, receiving an indication from at least one health checker that a broker is failing, wherein the broker is associated with a cluster of worker nodes, collecting health status reports relating to the broker from the health checkers, examining the health status reports based on a quorum-based voting policy, and classifying the broker as unhealthy if, based on the quorum-based voting policy, a percentage of the health status reports regards the broker as failed, wherein the percentage is greater than a first threshold percentage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Xiaodan Wang, John Buisson, Vijayanth Devadhar, Praveen Murugesan
  • Publication number: 20140075017
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating a quorum-based coordination of broker health for management of resources for application servers in an on-demand services environment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes monitoring, via health checkers, health of a cluster of brokers in a distributed environment having application servers in communication over a network, receiving an indication from at least one health checker that a broker is failing, wherein the broker is associated with a cluster of worker nodes, collecting health status reports relating to the broker from the health checkers, examining the health status reports based on a quorum-based voting policy, and classifying the broker as unhealthy if, based on the quorum-based voting policy, a percentage of the health status reports regards the broker as failed, wherein the percentage is greater than a first threshold percentage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: SALESFORCE.COM,INC.
    Inventors: XIAODAN WANG, JOHN BUISSON, VIJAYANTH DEVADHAR, PRAVEEN MURUGESAN