Patents by Inventor Robert Wipful

Robert Wipful 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 consensus decision making in a distributed system
    Patent number: 7630944
    Abstract: A method for consensus decision making in a distributed system. Upon the detection of a system parameter change, the method specifies the communication of decision premises from one node to another node in the system. Consensus decision premises are determined by evaluating the various node premises. Each node then executes a choice function, allowing the system as a whole to respond to the system parameter change in either a centralized, decentralized, or independently coordinated fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Rupp, Ryan Okelberry, Robert Wipful, Richard Jones
  • METHOD FOR CONSENSUS DECISIONMAKING IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20070233626
    Abstract: A method for consensus decision making in a distributed system. Upon the detection of a system parameter change, the method specifies the communication of decision premises from one node to another node in the system. Consensus decision premises are determined by evaluating the various node premises. Each node then executes a choice function, allowing the system as a whole to respond to the system parameter change in either a centralized, decentralized, or independently coordinated fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: NOVELL, INC.
    Inventors: Bradley Rupp, Ryan Okelberry, Robert Wipful, Richard Jones