Patents by Inventor Patrick W. McFarland

Patrick W. McFarland 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).

  • Method for providing scaleable restart and backout of software upgrades for clustered computing
    Patent number: RE41162
    Abstract: Platform and/or application software on all online, machine/servers in a cluster is updated without manually taking each machine/server offline. Initially, platform and/or application software for updating is stored in respective directories in an APPLY phase. Next, the new platform and/or application software is activated with or without a trial/test phase in an ACTIVATE phase. Where the new platform and/or application software is activated with a trial/test phase, a ROLLBACK phase is either automatically or manually invoked by the application in the event of a failure of the new software for backing out the new platform and/or application software and reactivating the previous platform and/or application software. An OFFICLAL phase then transitions the new platform and/or application software to the official state followed by a REACTIVATE phase for reactivating the backup copy of the previous/old platform and/or application software after the new software has been made official.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Norbert Engel, Eunan Muldoon, Ralph Wadlinger, Reginald L. Allen, Patrick W. McFarland, Guatam Patwari, John H. Pokropinski, Gail E. Tate, Ronnie E. Dean