Patents by Inventor Stephen J. Heisig

Stephen J. Heisig 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).

  • Publication number: 20080216087
    Abstract: A system for distributing a plurality of tasks over a plurality of nodes in a network includes: a plurality of processors for executing tasks; a plurality of nodes comprising processors; a task dispatcher; and a load balancer. The task dispatcher receives as input the plurality of tasks; calculates a task processor consumption value for the tasks; calculates a node processor consumption value for the nodes; calculates a target node processor consumption value for the nodes; and then calculates a load index value as a difference between the calculated node processor consumption for a node i and the target node processor consumption value for the node i. The balancer distributes the tasks among the nodes to balance the processor workload among the nodes according to the calculated load index value of each node, such that the calculated load index value of each node is substantially zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna N. Dillenberger, Greg A. Dyck, Stephen J. Heisig, Bernard R. Pierce, Donald W. Schmidt, Gong Su
  • Publication number: 20080178192
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for distributing a plurality of tasks over a plurality of processing nodes in a processor network includes the following steps: calculating a task process consumption value for the tasks; calculating a measured node processor consumption value for the nodes; calculating a target node processor consumption value for the nodes, the target node processor consumption value indicating optimal node processor consumption; calculating a load index value as a difference between the calculated node processor consumption value for a node i and the target node processor consumption value for node i; and distributing the tasks among the nodes to balance a processor workload among the nodes, according to the calculated load index value, such that the calculated load index value of each node is substantially zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna N. Dillenberger, Greg A. Dyck, Stephen J. Heisig, Bernard R. Pierce, Donald W. Schmidt, Gong Su
  • Publication number: 20080046895
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for distributing a plurality of tasks over a plurality of processing nodes in a processor network includes the following steps: calculating a task process consumption value for the tasks; calculating a measured node processor consumption value for the nodes; calculating a target node processor consumption value for the nodes, the target node processor consumption value indicating optimal node processor consumption; calculating a load index value as a difference between the calculated node processor consumption value for a node i and the target node processor consumption value for node i; and distributing the tasks among the nodes to balance a processor workload among the nodes, according to the calculated load index value, such that the calculated load index value of each node is substantially zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna N. Dillenberger, Greg A. Dyck, Stephen J. Heisig, Bernard R. Pierce, Donald W. Schmidt, Gong Su