Patents by Inventor Patrick Gerald Brown

Patrick Gerald Brown 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).

  • Associating virtual IP address of virtual server with appropriate operating system in server cluster
    Patent number: 11301279
    Abstract: According to one or more embodiments, a computer implemented method includes receiving, by an operating system of a computer server, a request to execute an instance of a computer application. The method further includes deploying a virtual container for the instance of the computer application, the virtual container is allocated a dynamic virtual interne protocol address (DVIPA). The method further includes instantiating an application instance of the computer application in the virtual container. The method further includes, based on a determination that the computer application is a non-native application for the operating system, creating for the virtual container, a virtual network interface card (NIC) that translates network communication between the application instance and a physical NIC of the computer server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Patrick Gerald Brown, Jerry Stevens
  • ASSOCIATING VIRTUAL IP ADDRESS OF VIRTUAL SERVER WITH APPROPRIATE OPERATING SYSTEM IN SERVER CLUSTER
    Publication number: 20200272490
    Abstract: According to one or more embodiments, a computer implemented method includes receiving, by an operating system of a computer server, a request to execute an instance of a computer application. The method further includes deploying a virtual container for the instance of the computer application, the virtual container is allocated a dynamic virtual interne protocol address (DVIPA). The method further includes instantiating an application instance of the computer application in the virtual container. The method further includes, based on a determination that the computer application is a non-native application for the operating system, creating for the virtual container, a virtual network interface card (NIC) that translates network communication between the application instance and a physical NIC of the computer server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Gerald Brown, Jerry Stevens