Patents by Inventor Richard Michael Harran

Richard Michael Harran 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).

  • TRANSACTION TRACKING TOKEN PROPAGATION
    Publication number: 20220197727
    Abstract: An approach to tracking application transactions without modifications to the application. Receiving a message from a first application. Creating a temporary message identity and a temporary data structure. Configuring the temporary message to save tracking information. Calling the first application to retrieve the tracking information. Saving the tracking information and sending the message to a second application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron Michael Young, Cheng Luo, Carolyn Reschke, Bing Qian, Richard Michael Harran
  • Solution for modifying a queue manager to support smart aliasing which permits extensible software to execute against queued data without application modifications
    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
  • SOLUTION FOR MODIFYING A QUEUE MANAGER TO SUPPORT SMART ALIASING WHICH PERMITS EXTENSIBLE SOFTWARE TO EXECUTE AGAINST QUEUED DATA WITHOUT APPLICATION MODIFICATIONS
    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