Patents by Inventor Michel Laviolette
Michel Laviolette 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).
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Patent number: 9477518Abstract: A method to redirect SRB routines from otherwise non-zIIP eligible processes on an IBM z/OS series mainframe to a zIIP eligible enclave is disclosed. This redirection is achieved by intercepting otherwise blocked operations and allowing them to complete processing without errors imposed by the zIIP processor configuration. After appropriately intercepting and redirecting these blocked operations more processing may be performed on the more financially cost effective zIIP processor by users of mainframe computing environments.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BMC SOFTWARE, INC.Inventor: Michel Laviolette
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Patent number: 9158572Abstract: A method to redirect SRB routines from otherwise non-zIIP eligible processes on an IBM z/OS series mainframe to a zIIP eligible enclave is disclosed. This redirection is achieved by intercepting otherwise blocked operations and allowing them to complete processing without errors imposed by the zIIP processor configuration. After appropriately intercepting and redirecting these blocked operations more processing may be performed on the more financially cost effective zIIP processor by users of mainframe computing environments.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: BMC SOFTWARE, INC.Inventor: Michel Laviolette
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Patent number: 9048854Abstract: Disclosed is a method to convert a Unicode character. The method includes intercepting a service call for a character conversion, determining if a character associated with the service call is a candidate for a first conversion service, if the character is a candidate for the first conversion service, converting the character using the first conversion service, if the character is not a candidate for the first conversion service, converting the character using a second conversion service, and returning the converted character.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: BMC Software Inc.Inventor: Michel Laviolette
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Publication number: 20140266818Abstract: Disclosed is a method to convert a Unicode character. The method includes intercepting a service call for a character conversion, determining if a character associated with the service call is a candidate for a first conversion service, if the character is a candidate for the first conversion service, converting the character using the first conversion service, if the character is not a candidate for the first conversion service, converting the character using a second conversion service, and returning the converted character.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventor: Michel LAVIOLETTE
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Patent number: 8352947Abstract: A Method to redirect SRB routines from otherwise non-zIIP eligible processes on an IBM z/OS series mainframe to a zIIP eligible enclave is disclosed. This redirection is achieved by intercepting otherwise blocked operations and allowing them to complete processing without errors imposed by the zIIP processor configuration. After appropriately intercepting and redirecting these blocked operations more processing may be performed on the more financially cost effective zIIP processor by users of mainframe computing environments.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.Inventor: Michel Laviolette
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Patent number: 8352948Abstract: A Method to redirect SRB routines from otherwise non-zIIP eligible processes on an IBM z/OS series mainframe to a zIIP eligible enclave is disclosed. This redirection is achieved by intercepting otherwise blocked operations and allowing them to complete processing without errors imposed by the zIIP processor configuration. After appropriately intercepting and redirecting these blocked operations more processing may be performed on the more financially cost effective zIIP processor by users of mainframe computing environments.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.Inventor: Michel Laviolette
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Patent number: 8353013Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods to provide a persistent authorized server address space (ASAS). The ASAS can host components from product suites that are not able to execute in an authorized state. To host other product's components, the ASAS receives “messages” from the unauthorized product components in the form of a generic eXtensible Markup Language (XML) protocol. These messages may request product initialization/administration or performance of a function by the ASAS on behalf of the requesting product. Security constraints are also provided to ensure system and data integrity. Further, the ASAS is not tightly coupled to any requesting product so that flexibility of product update or update to the ASAS itself may not be unnecessarily constrained.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.Inventors: Chris Palmer, Michel Laviolette, Benton Thomas Porter
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Publication number: 20110271327Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods to provide a persistent authorized server address space (ASAS). The ASAS can host components from product suites that are not able to execute in an authorized state. To host other product's components, the ASAS receives “messages” from the unauthorized product components in the form of a generic eXtensible Markup Language (XML) protocol. These messages may request product initialization/administration or performance of a function by the ASAS on behalf of the requesting product. Security constraints are also provided to ensure system and data integrity. Further, the ASAS is not tightly coupled to any requesting product so that flexibility of product update or update to the ASAS itself may not be unnecessarily constrained.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2010Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: BMC SOFTWARE, INC.Inventors: Chris Palmer, Michel Laviolette, Benton Thomas Porter
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Publication number: 20110072432Abstract: A Method to redirect SRB routines from otherwise non-zIIP eligible processes on an IBM z/OS series mainframe to a zIIP eligible enclave is disclosed. This redirection is achieved by intercepting otherwise blocked operations and allowing them to complete processing without errors imposed by the zIIP processor configuration. After appropriately intercepting and redirecting these blocked operations more processing may be performed on the more financially cost effective zIIP processor by users of mainframe computing environments.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2009Publication date: March 24, 2011Applicant: BMC SOFTWARE, INC.Inventor: Michel Laviolette
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Publication number: 20110072433Abstract: A Method to redirect SRB routines from otherwise non-zIIP eligible processes on an IBM z/OS series mainframe to a zIIP eligible enclave is disclosed. This redirection is achieved by intercepting otherwise blocked operations and allowing them to complete processing without errors imposed by the zIIP processor configuration. After appropriately intercepting and redirecting these blocked operations more processing may be performed on the more financially cost effective zIIP processor by users of mainframe computing environments.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2009Publication date: March 24, 2011Applicant: BMC SOFTWARE, INC.Inventor: Michel Laviolette
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Patent number: 7801865Abstract: Methods and systems for providing access to spaces in a database during a recovery process affecting the database. Spaces in the database that are affected by the recovery process are identified and I/O requests sent to a media manager associated with the database are intercepted. If the I/O request is for a read operation to a space affected by the recovery process and the corresponding page has been recovered, the data in the page may be read. If the page has not been recovered, the read operation may be held in a cache until the recovery utility indicates that the page has been recovered. If the I/O request is for a write operation to a space affected by the recovery process, the data may be written to a cache.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2007Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.Inventors: Richard Wayne Cline, Stanley James Dee, Michel Laviolette, Thomas G. Price, John Grady Sullivan
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Patent number: 5365883Abstract: A new and improved cat litter box apparatus includes a floor member and four walls projecting upward from the floor member. The four walls and the floor member define a container for litter material. A removable and replaceable cover member is capable of being fitted onto the four walls for sealing the litter within the container. A discharge outlet is located in one the four walls for permitting the litter within the container to be discharged from the container. Three of the four walls include grooves and one of the four walls includes a slot for receiving the cover member for sealing the litter within the container. A lifting handle is attached to one of the four walls for lifting the container. A receptacle slot, located under the floor member, receives the cover member when the cover member is not installed on the four walls for sealing the litter within the container.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1993Date of Patent: November 22, 1994Inventor: Michel Laviolette