Patents by Inventor Robert M. CONVERY

Robert M. CONVERY 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: 11249794
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for client controlled transaction processing. The method may be carried out at a transaction server, and include: receiving a transaction request from a transaction initiator and allocating a transaction identifier to the transaction; receiving notification of the number of jobs to be completed in the transaction; maintaining a transaction status indicating the current status of the transaction; receiving job status updates from one or more participants processing the jobs included in the transaction and updating a transaction record reflecting the status of each of the jobs included in the transaction; updating the transaction status when required based on the job status updates of the jobs included in the transaction; and receiving and responding to transaction status polling to provide a current transaction status, where the transaction status polling originates from the transaction initiator and the participants processing the jobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert M. Convery, Andrew S. Edwards, Martin R. Holder, Michael J. Tunnicliffe, Shanna Xu
  • Patent number: 10901751
    Abstract: Systems and methods for building images used in software containers are disclosed. A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, at a host computer, plural commands defined in a build file; determining, by the host computer, one of the plural commands is indicated as a temporal layer; building, by the host computer, an image including respective layers corresponding to respective ones of the plural commands; deleting from the image, by the host computer, one of the respective layers corresponding to the one of the plural commands indicated as the temporal layer; and pushing, by the host computer, the image to a registry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin A. Ross, Jack Evans, Robert M. Convery, Dominic J. Storey
  • Publication number: 20200233698
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for client controlled transaction processing. The method may be carried out at a transaction server, and include: receiving a transaction request from a transaction initiator and allocating a transaction identifier to the transaction; receiving notification of the number of jobs to be completed in the transaction; maintaining a transaction status indicating the current status of the transaction; receiving job status updates from one or more participants processing the jobs included in the transaction and updating a transaction record reflecting the status of each of the jobs included in the transaction; updating the transaction status when required based on the job status updates of the jobs included in the transaction; and receiving and responding to transaction status polling to provide a current transaction status, where the transaction status polling originates from the transaction initiator and the participants processing the jobs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Robert M. Convery, Andrew S. Edwards, Martin R. Holder, Michael J. Tunnicliffe, Shanna Xu
  • Patent number: 10628213
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for client controlled transaction processing. The method may be carried out at a transaction server, and include: receiving a transaction request from a transaction initiator and allocating a transaction identifier to the transaction; receiving notification of the number of jobs to be completed in the transaction; maintaining a transaction status indicating the current status of the transaction; receiving job status updates from one or more participants processing the jobs included in the transaction and updating a transaction record reflecting the status of each of the jobs included in the transaction; updating the transaction status when required based on the job status updates of the jobs included in the transaction; and receiving and responding to transaction status polling to provide a current transaction status, where the transaction status polling originates from the transaction initiator and the participants processing the jobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert M. Convery, Andrew S. Edwards, Martin R. Holder, Michael J. Tunnicliffe, Shanna Xu
  • Publication number: 20190354382
    Abstract: Systems and methods for building images used in software containers are disclosed. A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, at a host computer, plural commands defined in a build file; determining, by the host computer, one of the plural commands is indicated as a temporal layer; building, by the host computer, an image including respective layers corresponding to respective ones of the plural commands; deleting from the image, by the host computer, one of the respective layers corresponding to the one of the plural commands indicated as the temporal layer; and pushing, by the host computer, the image to a registry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Martin A. Ross, Jack Evans, Robert M. Convery, Dominic J. Storey
  • Publication number: 20190235912
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for client controlled transaction processing. The method may be carried out at a transaction server, and include: receiving a transaction request from a transaction initiator and allocating a transaction identifier to the transaction; receiving notification of the number of jobs to be completed in the transaction; maintaining a transaction status indicating the current status of the transaction; receiving job status updates from one or more participants processing the jobs included in the transaction and updating a transaction record reflecting the status of each of the jobs included in the transaction; updating the transaction status when required based on the job status updates of the jobs included in the transaction; and receiving and responding to transaction status polling to provide a current transaction status, where the transaction status polling originates from the transaction initiator and the participants processing the jobs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Robert M. Convery, Andrew S. Edwards, Martin R. Holder, Michael J. Tunnicliffe, Shanna Xu
  • Patent number: 10289444
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for client controlled transaction processing. The method may be carried out at a transaction server, and include: receiving a transaction request from a transaction initiator and allocating a transaction identifier to the transaction; receiving notification of the number of jobs to be completed in the transaction; maintaining a transaction status indicating the current status of the transaction; receiving job status updates from one or more participants processing the jobs included in the transaction and updating a transaction record reflecting the status of each of the jobs included in the transaction; updating the transaction status when required based on the job status updates of the jobs included in the transaction; and receiving and responding to transaction status polling to provide a current transaction status, where the transaction status polling originates from the transaction initiator and the participants processing the jobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert M. Convery, Andrew S. Edwards, Martin R. Holder, Michael J. Tunnicliffe, Shanna Xu
  • Publication number: 20170097847
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for client controlled transaction processing. The method may be carried out at a transaction server, and include: receiving a transaction request from a transaction initiator and allocating a transaction identifier to the transaction; receiving notification of the number of jobs to be completed in the transaction; maintaining a transaction status indicating the current status of the transaction; receiving job status updates from one or more participants processing the jobs included in the transaction and updating a transaction record reflecting the status of each of the jobs included in the transaction; updating the transaction status when required based on the job status updates of the jobs included in the transaction; and receiving and responding to transaction status polling to provide a current transaction status, where the transaction status polling originates from the transaction initiator and the participants processing the jobs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Robert M. CONVERY, Andrew S. EDWARDS, Martin R. HOLDER, Michael J. TUNNICLIFFE, Shanna XU