Patents by Inventor Steve J Hobson

Steve J Hobson 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, apparatus and computer program product for transaction recovery
    Patent number: 7694178
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for transaction resolution in a system comprising a transaction manager, a plurality of resource managers and a connection distributor for distributing transaction requests from the transaction manager amongst the plurality of resource managers. The transaction manager is allocated a first resource manager via which to conduct its transactions and the first resource manager has a transaction resolution queue associated with it. The system also comprises an asynchronous messaging infrastructure able to transmit messages originating at the transaction manager to the transaction resolution queue. The resource managers may comprise part of the asynchronous messaging infrastructure. Responsive to a failure between the transaction manager and the first resource manager, state data is received from the transaction manager at a second resource manager, the state data being addressed to the transaction resolution queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Steve J Hobson
  • Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Transaction Recovery
    Publication number: 20080040717
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for transaction resolution in a system comprising a transaction manager, a plurality of resource managers and a connection distributor for distributing transaction requests from the transaction manager amongst the plurality of resource managers. The transaction manager is allocated a first resource manager via which to conduct its transactions and the first resource manager has a transaction resolution queue associated with it. The system also comprises an asynchronous messaging infrastructure able to transmit messages originating at the transaction manager to the transaction resolution queue. The resource managers may comprise part of the asynchronous messaging infrastructure. Responsive to a failure between the transaction manager and the first resource manager, state data is received from the transaction manager at a second resource manager, the state data being addressed to the transaction resolution queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventor: Steve J. Hobson