Patents by Inventor Lou Foss

Lou Foss 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: 7792897
    Abstract: An infrastructure and method for processing a transaction using a plurality of target systems. The method includes: generating a request from a source system, wherein the request includes an initial identifier and a counter value; submitting the request to at least two target systems; processing the request at a first target system and ignoring the request at a second target system based on the initial identifier; submitting a resubmitted request to the at least two target systems if a timely response is not received by the source system, wherein the resubmitted request includes an incremented counter value; and processing the resubmitted request by only one of the first and second target systems based on the incremented counter value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lou Foss, Israel Alan Halachmi
  • Publication number: 20090300622
    Abstract: An infrastructure and method for processing a transaction using a plurality of target systems. A method is disclosed including: generating a request from a source system, wherein the request includes an initial identifier and a counter value; submitting the request to at least two target systems; processing the request at a first target system and ignoring the request at a second target system based on the initial identifier; submitting a resubmitted request to the at least two target systems if a timely response is not received by the source system, wherein the resubmitted request includes an incremented counter value; and processing the resubmitted request by only one of the first and second target systems based on the incremented counter value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Lou Foss, Israel Alan Halachmi