Patents by Inventor John Edmund Ahern

John Edmund Ahern 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).

  • Administration of groups of computer programs, data processing systems, or system resources
    Patent number: 7346910
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program, method and system providing simplified administration of groups of computer programs. Command target qualifiers are defined which enable a command to be targeted at either an individual computer program or all members of a group of computer programs. Additionally, scope parameters are defined which enable a command to be targeted at specific computer system resources managed by the computer programs within the group. The computer system resources which are to be accessible to all members of a group have an associated scope parameter defining shared or group access and are held in shared storage, whereas computer system resources to be accessed by only one computer program in the group have a corresponding scope parameter and are held in the local storage of the individual computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Incorporation
    Inventors: John Edmund Ahern, Keith Andrews, Arndt Douglas Eade, Hazel Heather Fix, Paul Kettley, Daniel Noel Millwood, Sharuff Morsa, Peter Siddall