Patents by Inventor John Franklin Isenberg, Jr.

John Franklin Isenberg, Jr. 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 performing conditional operations on externally shared data
    Patent number: 5742830
    Abstract: A Structured External Storage (SES) processor is linked by a communication means to one or more general purpose processors. Two or more applications executing on the one or more general purpose processors communicate function request messages to a message processor within the SES to effect serialized sharing of data within the SES. Within the message processor, a predicate function means executes unconditionally on receipt of one of the function request messages, and a data function means executes conditionally and atomically with respect to the predicate function means following a "successful" condition produced by the predicate function means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Arlen Elko, Jeffrey Alan Frey, Audrey Ann Helffrich, John Franklin Isenberg, Jr., Jeffrey Mark Nick, Jimmy Paul Strickland, Michael Dustin Swanson, Brian Barry Moore