Patents by Inventor John Simon Tilling

John Simon Tilling 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).

  • Publication number: 20210096959
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include a continuous availability for workload and site switches with no data loss at unlimited distances in an active-active sites configuration. A non-limiting example computer-implemented method includes synchronously replicating commit records of changed workload data, by a processor, from an active site to a bunker site upon a workload data commit. The method asynchronously replicates committed transactions on changed workload data, by the processor, from the bunker site to a recovery site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: David PETERSEN, Paul M. CADARETTE, Serge BOURBONNAIS, Michael Gerard FITZPATRICK, John Simon TILLING, Pamela L. MCLEAN, Gregory Walter VANCE, Matthew J. WARD, Theresa Mary BROWN, Nicolas Marc CLAYTON, Wei LIU, Hua ZHU, Xing Jun ZHOU
  • Patent number: 9086911
    Abstract: A multiprocessing transaction recovery manager, operable with a transactional application manager and a resource manager, comprises a threadsafety indicator for receiving and storing positive and non-positive threadsafety data of at least one transactional component managed by one of the transactional application manager and the resource manager; a commit protocol component for performing commit processing for the at least one transactional component; and a thread selector responsive to positive threadsafety data for selecting a single thread for the commit processing to be performed by the commit protocol component. The thread selector is further operable to select plural threads for the commit processing to be performed by the commit protocol component responsive to non-positive threadsafety data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ian James Mitchell, John Simon Tilling
  • Publication number: 20130275984
    Abstract: A multiprocessing transaction recovery manager, operable with a transactional application manager and a resource manager, comprises a threadsafety indicator for receiving and storing positive and non-positive threadsafety data of at least one transactional component managed by one of the transactional application manager and the resource manager; a commit protocol component for performing commit processing for the at least one transactional component; and a thread selector responsive to positive threadsafety data for selecting a single thread for the commit processing to be performed by the commit protocol component. The thread selector is further operable to select plural threads for the commit processing to be performed by the commit protocol component responsive to non-positive threadsafety data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Ian James Mitchell, John Simon Tilling
  • Patent number: 8499298
    Abstract: A multiprocessing transaction recovery manager, operable with a transactional application manager and a resource manager, comprises a threadsafety indicator for receiving and storing positive and non-positive threadsafety data of at least one transactional component managed by one of the transactional application manager and the resource manager; a commit protocol component for performing commit processing for the at least one transactional component; and a thread selector responsive to positive threadsafety data for selecting a single thread for the commit processing to be performed by the commit protocol component. The thread selector is further operable to select plural threads for the commit processing to be performed by the commit protocol component responsive to non-positive threadsafety data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ian James Mitchell, John Simon Tilling
  • Patent number: 5745674
    Abstract: A method of moving records, stored on a recovery log, which are associated with units of work which have waited for a long time is described. Units of work which have waited for a long time, such as those which are in-doubt have their records copied from a recovery log to a secondary log. When the earliest-written record for this in-doubt unit of work has been copied, a new record called a fork record is written on to the recovery log which has two effects: to subtract the log records currently on the recovery log for this unit of work from the recovery log and to refer to the copied records written on the secondary log. The new record achieves this using two pointers, a pointer to point to the most-recently written record on the recovery log for this unit of work and a pointer to point to the most-recently written record on the secondary log for this unit of work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Peter James Lupton, Robert Frank Buxton, Ian Hunter, Handel Glasnant Price, Adam Richards, John Simon Tilling, Dennis Jack Zimmer