Patents by Inventor Mark William McClintock

Mark William McClintock 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).

  • Application instance level workload distribution affinities
    Patent number: 7562145
    Abstract: Connections from a client to respective ones of a plurality of application instances that receive data from a shared communication protocol stack are assigned by defining an affinity between the client and a corresponding one of the plurality of application instances. Connection requests received from the client at the shared communication protocol stack are assigned to the corresponding one of the plurality of application instances if an affinity is defined between the client and the corresponding one of the plurality of application instances. Connection requests received from the client at the shared communication protocol stack are distributed to selected ones of the plurality of application instances if an affinity is not defined between the client and the corresponding one of the plurality of application instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Andrew Aiken, Jr., Sue Huang, Mark William McClintock