Patents by Inventor Michael J. TUNNICLIFFE

Michael J. TUNNICLIFFE 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: 11249794
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for client controlled transaction processing. The method may be carried out at a transaction server, and include: receiving a transaction request from a transaction initiator and allocating a transaction identifier to the transaction; receiving notification of the number of jobs to be completed in the transaction; maintaining a transaction status indicating the current status of the transaction; receiving job status updates from one or more participants processing the jobs included in the transaction and updating a transaction record reflecting the status of each of the jobs included in the transaction; updating the transaction status when required based on the job status updates of the jobs included in the transaction; and receiving and responding to transaction status polling to provide a current transaction status, where the transaction status polling originates from the transaction initiator and the participants processing the jobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert M. Convery, Andrew S. Edwards, Martin R. Holder, Michael J. Tunnicliffe, Shanna Xu
  • Patent number: 10965771
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for dynamically selecting transmission data formats for communicating data. A request for a server application sent from a client application is received by receiving, by a computer system. The request includes first data in a first transmission data format and identifies a set of transmission data formats acceptable to the client application. A determination is made by the computer system as whether the first transmission data format is supported. A response from the server application with second data in a selected transmission data format in the set of transmission data formats by the computer system in response to the first transmission data format being supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher N. Bailey, Michael J. Tunnicliffe
  • Patent number: 10915377
    Abstract: Methods and systems may provide for technology to determine dynamic path information and encoded type information associated with an application programming interface (API) and automatically generate a language-independent API definition based on the dynamic path information. In one example, the language-independent API definition is generated without reliance on source code annotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher N. Bailey, Michael J. Tunnicliffe
  • Publication number: 20200233698
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for client controlled transaction processing. The method may be carried out at a transaction server, and include: receiving a transaction request from a transaction initiator and allocating a transaction identifier to the transaction; receiving notification of the number of jobs to be completed in the transaction; maintaining a transaction status indicating the current status of the transaction; receiving job status updates from one or more participants processing the jobs included in the transaction and updating a transaction record reflecting the status of each of the jobs included in the transaction; updating the transaction status when required based on the job status updates of the jobs included in the transaction; and receiving and responding to transaction status polling to provide a current transaction status, where the transaction status polling originates from the transaction initiator and the participants processing the jobs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Robert M. Convery, Andrew S. Edwards, Martin R. Holder, Michael J. Tunnicliffe, Shanna Xu
  • Patent number: 10698791
    Abstract: Method and system are provided for handling request data with type safety in a remote service. The method includes providing a data structure, the data structure comprising a set of entries, each entry matching an incoming request type with a function for handling the request, the function defining a set of parameters. The method includes receiving an incoming request for a service from a remote client, wherein the request includes request data. The method includes using the data structure and identifying an entry for the incoming request by matching the request data to an incoming request type of an entry. The method includes converting the incoming request into a set of parameters using a software construct of the matching function identified in the entry, wherein the software construct comprises the matching function and associated in-scope local variables; and running the function using the converted parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Tunnicliffe, Christopher N. Bailey
  • Patent number: 10628213
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for client controlled transaction processing. The method may be carried out at a transaction server, and include: receiving a transaction request from a transaction initiator and allocating a transaction identifier to the transaction; receiving notification of the number of jobs to be completed in the transaction; maintaining a transaction status indicating the current status of the transaction; receiving job status updates from one or more participants processing the jobs included in the transaction and updating a transaction record reflecting the status of each of the jobs included in the transaction; updating the transaction status when required based on the job status updates of the jobs included in the transaction; and receiving and responding to transaction status polling to provide a current transaction status, where the transaction status polling originates from the transaction initiator and the participants processing the jobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert M. Convery, Andrew S. Edwards, Martin R. Holder, Michael J. Tunnicliffe, Shanna Xu
  • Publication number: 20200099764
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for dynamically selecting transmission data formats for communicating data. A request for a server application sent from a client application is received by receiving, by a computer system. The request includes first data in a first transmission data format and identifies a set of transmission data formats acceptable to the client application. A determination is made by the computer system as whether the first transmission data format is supported. A response from the server application with second data in a selected transmission data format in the set of transmission data formats by the computer system in response to the first transmission data format being supported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher N. Bailey, Michael J. Tunnicliffe
  • Publication number: 20200034272
    Abstract: Method and system are provided for handling request data with type safety in a remote service. The method includes providing a data structure, the data structure comprising a set of entries, each entry matching an incoming request type with a function for handling the request, the function defining a set of parameters. The method includes receiving an incoming request for a service from a remote client, wherein the request includes request data. The method includes using the data structure and identifying an entry for the incoming request by matching the request data to an incoming request type of an entry. The method includes converting the incoming request into a set of parameters using a software construct of the matching function identified in the entry, wherein the software construct comprises the matching function and associated in-scope local variables; and running the function using the converted parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Michael J. Tunnicliffe, Christopher N. Bailey
  • Publication number: 20190354414
    Abstract: Methods and systems may provide for technology to determine dynamic path information and encoded type information associated with an application programming interface (API) and automatically generate a language-independent API definition based on the dynamic path information. In one example, the language-independent API definition is generated without reliance on source code annotations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher N. Bailey, Michael J. Tunnicliffe
  • Publication number: 20190235912
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for client controlled transaction processing. The method may be carried out at a transaction server, and include: receiving a transaction request from a transaction initiator and allocating a transaction identifier to the transaction; receiving notification of the number of jobs to be completed in the transaction; maintaining a transaction status indicating the current status of the transaction; receiving job status updates from one or more participants processing the jobs included in the transaction and updating a transaction record reflecting the status of each of the jobs included in the transaction; updating the transaction status when required based on the job status updates of the jobs included in the transaction; and receiving and responding to transaction status polling to provide a current transaction status, where the transaction status polling originates from the transaction initiator and the participants processing the jobs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Robert M. Convery, Andrew S. Edwards, Martin R. Holder, Michael J. Tunnicliffe, Shanna Xu
  • Patent number: 10289444
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for client controlled transaction processing. The method may be carried out at a transaction server, and include: receiving a transaction request from a transaction initiator and allocating a transaction identifier to the transaction; receiving notification of the number of jobs to be completed in the transaction; maintaining a transaction status indicating the current status of the transaction; receiving job status updates from one or more participants processing the jobs included in the transaction and updating a transaction record reflecting the status of each of the jobs included in the transaction; updating the transaction status when required based on the job status updates of the jobs included in the transaction; and receiving and responding to transaction status polling to provide a current transaction status, where the transaction status polling originates from the transaction initiator and the participants processing the jobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert M. Convery, Andrew S. Edwards, Martin R. Holder, Michael J. Tunnicliffe, Shanna Xu
  • Publication number: 20170097847
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for client controlled transaction processing. The method may be carried out at a transaction server, and include: receiving a transaction request from a transaction initiator and allocating a transaction identifier to the transaction; receiving notification of the number of jobs to be completed in the transaction; maintaining a transaction status indicating the current status of the transaction; receiving job status updates from one or more participants processing the jobs included in the transaction and updating a transaction record reflecting the status of each of the jobs included in the transaction; updating the transaction status when required based on the job status updates of the jobs included in the transaction; and receiving and responding to transaction status polling to provide a current transaction status, where the transaction status polling originates from the transaction initiator and the participants processing the jobs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Robert M. CONVERY, Andrew S. EDWARDS, Martin R. HOLDER, Michael J. TUNNICLIFFE, Shanna XU