Patents by Inventor Robert Neil Carter

Robert Neil Carter 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: 9477648
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer readable medium to iteratively determine and deliver optimal experience of a web application running on multiple servers for the Internet. For example the multiple servers may be behind a single virtual Internet Protocol (IP) Address in a server farm. A candidate of the optimal webpage configuration is separately determined by each server of the server farm independent of each other. At recurring synchronization time points, the outcome of interest statistics from multiple servers are aggregated and used by each server to continue the next iteration until the convergence condition is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Neil Carter, Brendan Philip Quarterman Jennings
  • Patent number: 5860132
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for dispersing storage of a plurality of related and unrelated data items on a plurality of removable recordable media instances (RMIs). A first storage device is provided for storing a data item on a qualifying related RMI, the qualifying related RMI having one or more related data items stored on it and having sufficient actual storage space remaining for storing the data. A multiplier device is connected to the first storage device for multiplying the actual size of a data item, which is not stored by the first storage device because there is no qualifying related RMI, by a factor greater than one, to produce reserved storage space data which characterizes any other RMI that actually stores the data item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Neil Carter, Howard Alan Disney, Kevin Scott Goldsmith, William Otto Vomaska