Patents by Inventor John Thomas Schmidt

John Thomas Schmidt 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 system for managing concurrently executable computer processes
    Patent number: 6487580
    Abstract: A management facility for managing concurrently executable computer processes. The management facility includes a registration mechanism, which enables a plurality of interdependent processes to be considered a part of a topology of logically dependent execution groups, and a termination synchronization mechanism that synchronizes the completion of termination for the processes within the topology. Termination synchronization prevents a process within the topology from completely terminating, even if it has entered normal termination, until all of the processes within the topology have normally terminated. If one of the processes within the topology has abnormally terminated, then notification of this abnormal termination can be propagated to all of the processes within the topology of logically dependent execution groups, since none of them have completely terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roman Anthony Bobak, David Lee Meck, John Thomas Schmidt, Mythili Venkatakrishnan