Patents by Inventor Peter Siddall

Peter Siddall 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: 11556400
    Abstract: A computer system with a first messaging application communicates a message to another computer system with a second messaging application via a coupling facility storage device. If the message does not exceed a predetermined threshold, the message is put onto the queue in the coupling facility. If the message does exceed a predetermined threshold, the message is put onto a log associated with the first messaging application and readable by the second messaging application. A pointer to the message is put onto the queue in the coupling facility. The pointer can be used to access the message in the log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jose Emir Garza, Stephen James Hobson, Peter Siddall
  • Patent number: 11122002
    Abstract: Provided is a data storage system for a computer network adapted to store a message. The data storage system includes a data storage unit and a processing unit. The processing unit stores message data of the message across one or more data elements of a data list entry of an auxiliary list in the data storage unit. The processing unit further stores an indexing pointer of the message across one or more indexing elements of an indexing list entry of an indexing list in the data storage unit. The indexing pointer is adapted to point to the data list entry. The indexing list entry further includes an indexing control element containing control information associated with the indexing list entry. The data list entry further includes control information associated with the data list entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul S. Dennis, Richard M. W. Harran, Matthew W. Leming, Anthony J. Sharkey, Peter Siddall
  • Publication number: 20200145359
    Abstract: A computer system with a first messaging application communicates a message to another computer system with a second messaging application via a coupling facility storage device. If the message does not exceed a predetermined threshold, the message is put onto the queue in the coupling facility. If the message does exceed a predetermined threshold, the message is put onto a log associated with the first messaging application and readable by the second messaging application. A pointer to the message is put onto the queue in the coupling facility. The pointer can be used to access the message in the log.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Jose Emir Garza, Stephen James Hobson, Peter Siddall
  • Patent number: 10567322
    Abstract: A computer system with a first messaging application communicates a message to another computer system with a second messaging application via a coupling facility storage device. If the message does not exceed a predetermined threshold, the message is put onto the queue in the coupling facility. If the message does exceed a predetermined threshold, the message is put onto a log associated with the first messaging application and readable by the second messaging application. A pointer to the message is put onto the queue in the coupling facility. The pointer can be used to access the message in the log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jose Emir Garza, Stephen James Hobson, Peter Siddall
  • Publication number: 20190097963
    Abstract: Provided is a data storage system for a computer network adapted to store a message. The data storage system includes a data storage unit and a processing unit. The processing unit stores message data of the message across one or more data elements of a data list entry of an auxiliary list in the data storage unit. The processing unit further stores an indexing pointer of the message across one or more indexing elements of an indexing list entry of an indexing list in the data storage unit. The indexing pointer is adapted to point to the data list entry. The indexing list entry further includes an indexing control element containing control information associated with the indexing list entry. The data list entry further includes control information associated with the data list entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Paul S. Dennis, Richard M. W. Harran, Matthew W. Leming, Anthony J. Sharkey, Peter Siddall
  • Patent number: 10230678
    Abstract: Provided is a data storage system for a computer network adapted to store a message. The data storage system includes a data storage unit and a processing unit. The processing unit stores message data of the message across one or more data elements of a data list entry of an auxiliary list in the data storage unit. The processing unit further stores an indexing pointer of the message across one or more indexing elements of an indexing list entry of an indexing list in the data storage unit. The indexing pointer is adapted to point to the data list entry. The indexing list entry further includes an indexing control element containing control information associated with the indexing list entry. The data list entry further includes control information associated with the data list entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul S. Dennis, Richard M. W. Harran, Matthew W. Leming, Anthony J. Sharkey, Peter Siddall
  • Patent number: 9634962
    Abstract: A method for message handling between a message producer and a remote message consumer in a shared queue computing environment. The method includes, receiving from a message producer, at least one message by a first queue manager. A first queue manager writes both the message data associated with at least one message, to a shared data repository, and a pointer, associated with the message data to a coupling facility, using an uncommitted key. The second queue manager, upon an indication that an uncommitted key is written to the coupling facility, reads the message from the shared data repository based on the pointer, and stores the message in an internal memory storage buffer. The first queue manager then commits a batch of messages. Finally, the second queue manager merges the pointer and the message from the internal memory storage buffer, in response to a remote message consumer requesting the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard M. W. Harran, Matthew W. Leming, Peter Siddall
  • Publication number: 20170054672
    Abstract: Provided is a data storage system for a computer network adapted to store a message. The data storage system includes a data storage unit and a processing unit. The processing unit stores message data of the message across one or more data elements of a data list entry of an auxiliary list in the data storage unit. The processing unit further stores an indexing pointer of the message across one or more indexing elements of an indexing list entry of an indexing list in the data storage unit. The indexing pointer is adapted to point to the data list entry. The indexing list entry further includes an indexing control element containing control information associated with the indexing list entry. The data list entry further includes control information associated with the data list entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Paul S. Dennis, Richard M. W. Harran, Matthew W. Leming, Anthony J. Sharkey, Peter Siddall
  • Publication number: 20160308792
    Abstract: A method for message handling between a message producer and a remote message consumer in a shared queue computing environment. The method includes, receiving from a message producer, at least one message by a first queue manager. A first queue manager writes both the message data associated with at least one message, to a shared data repository, and a pointer, associated with the message data to a coupling facility, using an uncommitted key. The second queue manager, upon an indication that an uncommitted key is written to the coupling facility, reads the message from the shared data repository based on the pointer, and stores the message in an internal memory storage buffer. The first queue manager then commits a batch of messages. Finally, the second queue manager merges the pointer and the message from the internal memory storage buffer, in response to a remote message consumer requesting the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Richard M. W. Harran, Matthew W. Leming, Peter Siddall
  • Patent number: 8375051
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling subscriptions comprising: a detector operable to detect to a subscription associated with a wildcard topic string; and an analyzer, responsive to the detection of the subscription associated with a wildcard topic string and a topic string of a topic node matching the wildcard topic string, for analyzing a first attribute of the topic node; and means for determining whether a subscriber associated with the subscription should receive a message associated with the topic string of the topic node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Postlethwaite, Jonathan Lee Rumsey, Ian Charles Edwards, Peter Siddall
  • Patent number: 8141103
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a queue manager that includes a smart alias function. The smart alias function can associate a queue name with two or more queues. The queues associated with the queue name for a given operation can be dependent upon programmatically determinable conditions. For example, the queue name (Queue A) can cause a message to be put in a Queue A1 when smart aliased. The same queue name (Queue A) can cause a message to be retrieved from Queue A2 when smart aliased. Additional processing can be performed against messages placed in Queue A1, and post processed messages can be placed in Queue A2. The queue manager can be a component that receives digitally encoded messages, that stores the received digitally encoded messages, and that provides the digitally encoded messages to authorized requesting software applications. The queue manager and the smart alias function can be software/firmware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Michael Harran, Stephen James Hobson, Peter Siddall
  • Patent number: 7568226
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a data processing system and method as well as to a computer program product for realizing such a data processing system and method. Conventionally, access to system resources is controlled within, for example, MQSeries, via security settings or security definition contained within profiles that are used to initialize a data processing system. Typically, each computer program or user has associated access permissions which may, from time to time, be varied by a system administrator. It will be appreciated that to issue on a resource by resource or user by user basis individual changes to access permission would require a significant amount of work. Suitably, the present invention provides a system and method for implementing grouping of security access control for a number of resources or users. Therefore, a single security change request can be used to effect a change of access permissions associated with a number of separate or at least closely coupled resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Arndt Douglas Eade, Hazel Heather Fix, Paul Kettley, Peter Siddall
  • Publication number: 20090187570
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling subscriptions comprising: a detector operable to detect to a subscription associated with a wildcard topic string; and an analyzer, responsive to the detection of the subscription associated with a wildcard topic string and a topic string of a topic node matching the wildcard topic string, for analyzing a first attribute of the topic node; and means for determining whether a subscriber associated with the subscription should receive a message associated with the topic string of the topic node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Postlethwaite, Jonathan Lee Rumsey, Ian Charles Edwards, Peter Siddall
  • Patent number: 7543181
    Abstract: Provided are methods, data processing systems, recovery components and computer programs for recovering from storage failures affecting data repositories. At least a part of the recovery processing is performed while the data repositories are able to receive new data and to allow retrieval of such new data. Although new data items may be received into the repository and retrieved therefrom during recovery processing, updates to the data repository which were performed before the failure and which are then restored to the repository by the recovery processing are restored within a recovery unit of work and are inaccessible to processes other than the recovery process until successful completion of the recovery unit of work. The recovery processing ensures that the recovered repository is consistent with the state of the repository at the time of the failure, but is available for addition and retrieval of new data items before completion of the recovery processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Ptd. Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert Frank Buxton, David James Fisher, Jose Emir Garza, Stephen James Hobson, Paul Hopewell, Paul Kettley, Robert Daniel Millar, Peter Siddall, Stephen Richard Walker
  • Publication number: 20080294661
    Abstract: A computer system with a first messaging application communicates a message to another computer system with a second messaging application via a coupling facility storage device. If the message does not exceed a predetermined threshold, the message is put onto the queue in the coupling facility. If the message does exceed a predetermined threshold, the message is put onto a log associated with the first messaging application and readable by the second messaging application. A pointer to the message is put onto the queue in the coupling facility. The pointer can be used to access the message in the log.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Jose Emir Garza, Stephen James Hobson, Peter Siddall
  • Publication number: 20080077939
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a queue manager that includes a smart alias function. The smart alias function can associate a queue name with two or more queues. The queues associated with the queue name for a given operation can be dependent upon programmatically determinable conditions. For example, the queue name (Queue A) can cause a message to be put in a Queue A1 when smart aliased. The same queue name (Queue A) can cause a message to be retrieved from Queue A2 when smart aliased. Additional processing can be performed against messages placed in Queue A1, and post processed messages can be placed in Queue A2. The queue manager can be a component that receives digitally encoded messages, that stores the received digitally encoded messages, and that provides the digitally encoded messages to authorized requesting software applications. The queue manager and the smart alias function can be software/firmware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: RICHARD MICHAEL HARRAN, STEPHEN JAMES HOBSON, PETER SIDDALL
  • Patent number: 7346910
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program, method and system providing simplified administration of groups of computer programs. Command target qualifiers are defined which enable a command to be targeted at either an individual computer program or all members of a group of computer programs. Additionally, scope parameters are defined which enable a command to be targeted at specific computer system resources managed by the computer programs within the group. The computer system resources which are to be accessible to all members of a group have an associated scope parameter defining shared or group access and are held in shared storage, whereas computer system resources to be accessed by only one computer program in the group have a corresponding scope parameter and are held in the local storage of the individual computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Incorporation
    Inventors: John Edmund Ahern, Keith Andrews, Arndt Douglas Eade, Hazel Heather Fix, Paul Kettley, Daniel Noel Millwood, Sharuff Morsa, Peter Siddall
  • Publication number: 20070088970
    Abstract: Provided are methods, data processing systems, recovery components and computer programs for recovering from storage failures affecting data repositories. At least a part of the recovery processing is performed while the data repositories are able to receive new data and to allow retrieval of such new data. Although new data items may be received into the repository and retrieved therefrom during recovery processing, updates to the data repository which were performed before the failure and which are then restored to the repository by the recovery processing are restored within a recovery unit of work and are inaccessible to processes other than the recovery process until successful completion of the recovery unit of work. The recovery processing ensures that the recovered repository is consistent with the state of the repository at the time of the failure, but is available for addition and retrieval of new data items before completion of the recovery processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE.LTD
    Inventors: Robert Buxton, David Fishers, Jose Garza, Stephen Hobson, Paul Hopewall, Paul Kettley, Robert Millar, Peter Siddall, Stephen Walker
  • Publication number: 20060200516
    Abstract: A data processing system for message handling comprises a coupling facility for receiving messages, the coupling facility arranged to maintain a queue of messages, and a database for storing messages. A component, such as a server, of the system is arranged to detect that a message is of a size above a predetermined threshold, and therefore stores this larger message in the database and enters a proxy in the queue of messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventors: Dermot Flaherty, Stephen Hobson, Paul Hopewell, Paul Kettley, Peter Siddall
  • Patent number: 7035852
    Abstract: Provided are a method, computer program product and system for providing indexed queue support for efficient retrieval of messages from a queue. An index key for expediting message retrieval is assigned to a message when the operation of placing the message on a queue is committed. The index key assigned at commit time comprises an attribute (such as a message ID or correlation ID) specified by the sending application program, which placed the message on the queue. This deferred assignment of an index key until commit time means that the index key can be used to search for messages having the particular attribute without any possibility of identifying messages for retrieval before the messages have been committed. This maintains transactional requirements of a transaction-oriented messaging system which requires a message to only be made available for retrieval by receiver application programs after the sender application's put operation has committed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Hopewell, Paul Kettley, Jeffrey M. Nick, Peter Siddall, James H. Warnes