Patents by Inventor Mounish S. Desai

Mounish S. Desai 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).

  • Distributed locking system and method for a clustered system having a distributed system for storing cluster configuration information
    Patent number: 6523078
    Abstract: A distributed locking system and method for a clustered system having a distributed system for storing cluster configuration information is provided. One aspect of the present invention allows a process or thread in a high availability solution to obtain a distributed lock on all relevant nodes in a clustered system. Another aspect of the present invention allows more than one thread to obtain a lock and perform a critical operation on different nodes concurrently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Steeleye Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Mounish S. Desai
  • System and method for identifying shared virtual memory in a computer cluster
    Patent number: 6438663
    Abstract: For use with a computer cluster having virtual memory logical devices associated therewith, a system and method for determining which of the virtual memory logical devices are shared devices and a computer cluster employing such system or method. The system includes: (1) a polling circuit that retrieves volume information from at least some of the virtual memory logical devices and (2) a matching circuit that determines which ones of the at least some of the virtual memory logical devices are shared devices as a function of the volume information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Steeleye Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinod K. Agarwal, Mounish S. Desai