Patents by Inventor Leonard Pruitt

Leonard Pruitt 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).

  • Detection of a deadlocked resource condition in a pool of shared resources
    Patent number: 6597907
    Abstract: A deadlocked resource condition in a pool of shared resources is detected by measuring a characteristic of resource utilization over a predefined time interval and comparing the measured characteristic in accordance with a predicted statistical relationship. If the measured resource utilization is inconsistent with the predicted statistical relationship, a deadlocked resource condition is determined to have occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Ericsson Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard Pruitt, Loudon Lee Campbell, Mustafa Kocaturk