Patents by Inventor Thomas Edward Musta

Thomas Edward Musta 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: 8196129
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and storage medium that, in an embodiment, determine the classes that are needed during a first invocation of an application and preload those classes during a subsequent invocation of the application. In various embodiments, the classes may be preloaded if they are within a specified package, if they were needed greater than a threshold number of times, if the class path did not change between the first invocation and the subsequent invocation, or if the jar files the contain the classes are in a class path. In this way, an embodiment of the invention may increase the performance of class preloading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Keith Martin, Daniel John Moravec, Thomas Edward Musta, Eric Jon Van Norman
  • Patent number: 7870546
    Abstract: Computer implemented method, system and computer program product for searching for a class in a data processing system having classloaders organized in both a classloader hierarchy and a classloader network. A computer implemented method for searching for a class in a data processing system having classloaders organized in both a classloader hierarchy and a classloader network includes receiving a request to load a class at a request receiving classloader in the classloader hierarchy. The request to load a class is forwarded to a gateway classloader in the classloader network, wherein the gateway classloader is also in the classloader hierarchy. The requested class is then searched for in the classloader network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Subbarao K. Meduri, Thomas Edward Musta, James Lee Van Oosten
  • Publication number: 20080229299
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and storage medium that, in an embodiment, determine the classes that are needed during a first invocation of an application and preload those classes during a subsequent invocation of the application. In various embodiments, the classes may be preloaded if they are within a specified package, if they were needed greater than a threshold number of times, if the class path did not change between the first invocation and the subsequent invocation, or if the jar files the contain the classes are in a class path. In this way, an embodiment of the invention may increase the performance of class preloading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Keith Martin, Daniel John Moravee, Thomas Edward Musta, Eric Jon Van Norman
  • Patent number: 7398523
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, determine the classes that are needed during a first invocation of an application and preload those classes during a subsequent invocation of the application. In various embodiments, the classes may be preloaded if they are within a specified package, if they were needed greater than a threshold number of times, if the class path did not change between the first invocation and the subsequent invocation, or if the jar files the contain the classes are in a class path. In this way, an embodiment of the invention may increase the performance of class preloading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Keith Martin, Daniel John Moravec, Thomas Edward Musta, Eric Jon Van Norman
  • Patent number: 6915519
    Abstract: A method for allowing an enterprise application server to integrate and make use of any messaging product or products that support a standard messaging service interfaces. In a first phase of the method, an administrator creates and installs a new messaging provider on an application server, creates new messaging resource objects such as connection factories and destinations, and then binds these into the original namespace of the default messaging provider. An application which references the new messaging provider is then deployed onto the application server. Then, when the application program is executing, it may perform a lookup for the new messaging service, which the application server performs through the default context factory to obtain a new messaging object, which is then handed to the requesting application for use as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Leigh Allen Williamson, Roger L. Cundiff, Jr., Thomas Edward Musta
  • Publication number: 20030014554
    Abstract: A method for allowing an enterprise application server to integrate and make use of any messaging product or products that support a standard messaging service interfaces. In a first phase of the method, an administrator creates and installs a new messaging provider on an application server, creates new messaging resource objects such as connection factories and destinations, and then binds these into the original namespace of the default messaging provider. An application which references the new messaging provider is then deployed onto the application server. Then, when the application program is executing, it may perform a lookup for the new messaging service, which the application server performs through the default context factory to obtain a new messaging object, which is then handed to the requesting application for use as needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Leigh Allen Williamson, Roger L. Cundiff, JR, Thomas Edward Musta