Patents by Inventor Lini Mestar

Lini Mestar 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).

  • Fault tolerant computer systems and methods establishing consensus for which processing system should be the prime string
    Patent number: 11042443
    Abstract: Systems and methods for fault tolerant computing in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are disclosed. Fault tolerant computer systems in accordance with a number of embodiments of the invention include multiple processing systems supervised by a Fault Management Unit (FMU). The FMU can build a representation of the state of all of the multiple processing systems and then determines which of the processing systems to utilize to perform a particular function based upon this state representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Lini Mestar, David C Foor, William D Whitaker
  • Fault Tolerant Computer Systems and Methods
    Publication number: 20200125463
    Abstract: Systems and methods for fault tolerant computing in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are disclosed. Fault tolerant computer systems in accordance with a number of embodiments of the invention include multiple processing systems supervised by a Fault Management Unit (FMU). The FMU can build a representation of the state of all of the multiple processing systems and then determines which of the processing systems to utilize to perform a particular function based upon this state representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Lini Mestar, David C. Foor, William D. Whitaker