Patents by Inventor Katheryn Sarah Warr

Katheryn Sarah Warr 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).

  • Centralized affinity maintenance in a workload managed client/server data processing system
    Patent number: 6466965
    Abstract: In a client/server data processing system where a client sends a work request to a server which includes a group of workload managed server data processing processes each of which is capable of performing the work request, a server data processing apparatus running a server data processing process, the apparatus has: a data storage unit storing mapping data which maps a particular server data processing process to each of a plurality of groups of workload managed server data processing processes; a means for receiving from a client a request for the identity of the mapped server data processing process corresponding to a particular group of workload managed server data processing processes, the particular group being specified in the request; a means for accessing the data storage unit to determine, for the particular group specified in the received request, the identity of the mapped server data processing process; and a means for returning the identity of the mapped server data processing process to the cli
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Amanda Elizabeth Chessell, Stephen James Cocks, Katheryn Sarah Warr