Patents by Inventor Vijay Kumar Aggarwal

Vijay Kumar Aggarwal 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).

  • Provisioning manager for optimizing selection of available resources
    Patent number: 7281045
    Abstract: A method and software for fulfilling a resource request in a data processing network includes specifying characteristics of the requested resource responsive to detecting the resource request. A set of attributes is then derived from the specified characteristics. The specified characteristics indicate broad or general properties of the needed resource while the derived attributes preferably indicate the hardware and software components of a resource ideally suited to fulfill the resource request. Attribute information associated an available resource is then evaluated against the attributes derived from the specified characteristics. An available resource is then selected, based on the evaluation, to satisfy the resource request. The attributes of the selected resource best match the attributes derived from the specified characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vijay Kumar Aggarwal, David Werner Bachmann, Uzi Hardoon, Craig M. Lawton, Raymond P. Pekowski, Christopher Andrew Peters, Puthukode G. Ramachandran, Lorin Evan Ullmann, John Patrick Whitfield