Patents by Inventor Mark M. Whitney

Mark M. Whitney 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).

  • Publication number: 20040153511
    Abstract: Exchanging electronic messages between an online transaction processing host computer system and a distributed computer system. This communication exchange encompasses both guaranteed delivery of electronic messages and non-guaranteed delivery of native terminal screen and printer messages, utilizing a message queuing facility. A two-tier architecture is used for all message translations, blocking and reassembling, queuing, acknowledgments and retransmissions, generally reducing necessary message processing and reducing use of system resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2002
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Tony Maynard, David Grosskurth, Paulus Tsang, Mark M. Whitney, Richard Lowell Lawhorn, Scott P. Gosline, Dick Amin, Gustavo Pina, Rajiv Virmani
  • Patent number: 6141701
    Abstract: A system for, and method of, off-loading network transactions from a mainframe to an intelligent input/output device, including off-loading message queuing facilities. A storage controller has a processor and a memory, in which the controller receives I/O commands having corresponding addresses. In the controller memory, a communication stack is provided for receiving and transmitting information on a network. In addition, a message queue facilities (MQF) is provided that cooperates with the communication stack and that is responsive to a message queue verb. The MQF causes the communication stack to provide information to a queue in the MQF or causes a queue in the MQF to provide information to the communication stack. Moreover, interface logic is provided in the controller memory and is responsive to the I/O commands, to determine whether an I/O command is within a first set of predetermined I/O commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Inventor: Mark M. Whitney