Patents by Inventor Kenneth B. KENT

Kenneth B. KENT 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).

  • Patent number: 10990519
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide devices that determine a load for each tenant of a plurality of tenants running applications on a shared computer server for a predetermined interval of time, wherein the computer server includes a plurality of computer processor cores, compute a capacity for each tenant of the plurality of tenants which includes a difference between the load and a service level agreement for each tenant, determine computer processor cores corresponding to the capacity of a largest capacity tenant, wherein the processors cores include a subset of the plurality of computer processor cores for the shared computer server, pin the subset of computer processor cores to perform garbage collection for one or more tenants, and invoke the garbage collection using the pinned subset of computer processor cores which deallocates no longer used memory in a corresponding heap for the one or more tenants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Dawson, Kenneth B. Kent, Panagiotis Patros
  • Patent number: 10678482
    Abstract: Aspects provide multi-tier data synchronization based on a concurrent linked monitor list. A computer processor associates each of different data regions of a packed data object with different mutual exclusion monitor nodes of a linked list, the data regions defined by a data offset location within memory data and a length of the data region from the offset. In response to determining that a first data region of the packed data object is on-heap memory, the processor associates the first data region with a container representative of the linked list sorted in ascending order of the respective offset values, and a hash code of the container; and in response to determining that a second data region of the packed data object is off-heap memory, stores container information for the second data region in the linked list and resorts the linked-list nodes of container information in ascending order of offset values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oluwatobi A. Ajila, Eric Aubanel, Kenneth B. Kent, Angela Lin, Bing Yang
  • Publication number: 20200142822
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide devices that determine a load for each tenant of a plurality of tenants running applications on a shared computer server for a predetermined interval of time, wherein the computer server includes a plurality of computer processor cores, compute a capacity for each tenant of the plurality of tenants which includes a difference between the load and a service level agreement for each tenant, determine computer processor cores corresponding to the capacity of a largest capacity tenant, wherein the processors cores include a subset of the plurality of computer processor cores for the shared computer server, pin the subset of computer processor cores to perform garbage collection for one or more tenants, and invoke the garbage collection using the pinned subset of computer processor cores which deallocates no longer used memory in a corresponding heap for the one or more tenants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Dawson, Kenneth B. Kent, Panagiotis Patros
  • Patent number: 10606629
    Abstract: A first execution of an application is performed on a virtual machine. A set of virtual machine parameters associated with the first execution is determined. One or more command lines of the application are mapped to the set of virtual machine parameters. The mapping is stored in a cache. A second execution of the application is performed on the virtual machine. The second execution retrieves the set of virtual machine parameters from the cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Heidinga, Peter D. Shipton, Aleksandar Micic, Devarghya Bhattacharya, Kenneth B. Kent
  • Patent number: 10585692
    Abstract: A first execution of an application is performed on a virtual machine. A set of virtual machine parameters associated with the first execution is determined. One or more command lines of the application are mapped to the set of virtual machine parameters. The mapping is stored in a cache. A second execution of the application is performed on the virtual machine. The second execution retrieves the set of virtual machine parameters from the cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Heidinga, Peter D. Shipton, Aleksandar Micic, Devarghya Bhattacharya, Kenneth B. Kent
  • Patent number: 10338899
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose systems, methods and computer program products to perform an operation for sharing artifacts between instances of an application deployed in a cloud computing environment. The operation generally includes upon determining, during staging of the application, that a set of artifacts are not available for instances of the application to share in the cloud computing environment, generating the set of artifacts via a first application instance, storing the set of artifacts, and requesting a re-staging of the application. The operation also includes during the re-staging of the application, generating a file for deploying scaled instances of the application and packing the stored set of artifacts into the generated file via a second application instance. The operation further includes executing an instance scale out of the application with the generated file comprising the stored set of artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael H. Dawson, Dayal D. Dilli, Kenneth B. Kent, Panagiotis Patros, Peter D. Shipton
  • Publication number: 20190056965
    Abstract: A first execution of an application is performed on a virtual machine. A set of virtual machine parameters associated with the first execution is determined. One or more command lines of the application are mapped to the set of virtual machine parameters. The mapping is stored in a cache. A second execution of the application is performed on the virtual machine. The second execution retrieves the set of virtual machine parameters from the cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel Heidinga, Peter D. Shipton, Aleksandar Micic, Devarghya Bhattacharya, Kenneth B. Kent
  • Publication number: 20190056967
    Abstract: A first execution of an application is performed on a virtual machine. A set of virtual machine parameters associated with the first execution is determined. One or more command lines of the application are mapped to the set of virtual machine parameters. The mapping is stored in a cache. A second execution of the application is performed on the virtual machine. The second execution retrieves the set of virtual machine parameters from the cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel Heidinga, Peter D. Shipton, Aleksandar Micic, Devarghya Bhattacharya, Kenneth B. Kent
  • Publication number: 20180329641
    Abstract: Aspects provide multi-tier data synchronization based on a concurrent linked monitor list. A computer processor associates each of different data regions of a packed data object with different mutual exclusion monitor nodes of a linked list, the data regions defined by a data offset location within memory data and a length of the data region from the offset. In response to determining that a first data region of the packed data object is on-heap memory, the processor associates the first data region with a container representative of the linked list sorted in ascending order of the respective offset values, and a hash code of the container; and in response to determining that a second data region of the packed data object is off-heap memory, stores container information for the second data region in the linked list and resorts the linked-list nodes of container information in ascending order of offset values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: OLUWATOBI A. AJILA, Eric Aubanel, Kenneth B. Kent, Angela Lin, Bing Yang
  • Patent number: 10073646
    Abstract: Aspects provide multi-tier data synchronization based on a concurrent linked monitor list. A computer processor associates each of different data regions of a packed data object with different mutual exclusion monitor nodes of a linked list, the data regions defined by a data offset location within memory data and a length of the data region from the offset. In response to determining that a first data region of the packed data object is on-heap memory, the processor associates the first data region with a container representative of the linked list sorted in ascending order of the respective offset values, and a hash code of the container; and in response to determining that a second data region of the packed data object is off-heap memory, stores container information for the second data region in the linked list and resorts the linked-list nodes of container information in ascending order of offset values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oluwatobi A. Ajila, Eric Aubanel, Kenneth B. Kent, Angela Lin, Bing Yang
  • Publication number: 20180217776
    Abstract: Aspects provide multi-tier data synchronization based on a concurrent linked monitor list. A computer processor associates each of different data regions of a packed data object with different mutual exclusion monitor nodes of a linked list, the data regions defined by a data offset location within memory data and a length of the data region from the offset. In response to determining that a first data region of the packed data object is on-heap memory, the processor associates the first data region with a container representative of the linked list sorted in ascending order of the respective offset values, and a hash code of the container; and in response to determining that a second data region of the packed data object is off-heap memory, stores container information for the second data region in the linked list and resorts the linked-list nodes of container information in ascending order of offset values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: OLUWATOBI A. AJILA, ERIC AUBANEL, ANGELA LIN, KENNETH B. KENT, BING YANG
  • Publication number: 20180113684
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose systems, methods and computer program products to perform an operation for sharing artifacts between instances of an application deployed in a cloud computing environment. The operation generally includes upon determining, during staging of the application, that a set of artifacts are not available for instances of the application to share in the cloud computing environment, generating the set of artifacts via a first application instance, storing the set of artifacts, and requesting a re-staging of the application. The operation also includes during the re-staging of the application, generating a file for deploying scaled instances of the application and packing the stored set of artifacts into the generated file via a second application instance. The operation further includes executing an instance scale out of the application with the generated file comprising the stored set of artifacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Michael H. DAWSON, Dayal D. DILLI, Kenneth B. KENT, Panagiotis PATROS, Peter D. SHIPTON