Patents by Inventor LEO J. DAVISON

LEO J. DAVISON 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).

  • Messaging forwarding system and method
    Patent number: 10608970
    Abstract: A messaging system having a cluster of receiving applications for handling received messages, and a cluster of messaging engines for receiving messages from one or more message sources and forwarding the received messages to one of the receiving applications is provided. Each messaging engine is operable to transmit load balancing information, the load balancing information comprising an indication of the current loading on the messaging engine. The receiving applications are instructed to establish a connection to receive messages from a particular messaging engine within the cluster based on the load balancing information. Accordingly, applications are able to receive messages in such a way that the messages do not build up unprocessed on a particular messaging engine for too long, and such that messages are routed to messaging engines where messages are being consumed, and so that the receiving applications receive messages from every messaging engine where messages are arriving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Leo J. Davison, Ian C. Edwards, Jonathan Levell, Andrew J. Schofield
  • MESSAGING FORWARDING SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20170289084
    Abstract: A messaging system having a cluster of receiving applications for handling received messages, and a cluster of messaging engines for receiving messages from one or more message sources and forwarding the received messages to one of the receiving applications is provided. Each messaging engine is operable to transmit load balancing information, the load balancing information comprising an indication of the current loading on the messaging engine. The receiving applications are instructed to establish a connection to receive messages from a particular messaging engine within the cluster based on the load balancing information. Accordingly, applications are able to receive messages in such a way that the messages do not build up unprocessed on a particular messaging engine for too long, and such that messages are routed to messaging engines where messages are being consumed, and so that the receiving applications receive messages from every messaging engine where messages are arriving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: LEO J. DAVISON, IAN C. EDWARDS, JONATHAN LEVELL, ANDREW J. SCHOFIELD