Patents by Inventor Wallace Clayton Davis

Wallace Clayton Davis 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).

  • Status polling failover of devices in a distributed network management hierarchy
    Patent number: 6961768
    Abstract: Automatic failover methodology provides a mechanism whereby a central control unit, such as a management station, will automatically takeover interface status polling of objects of a collection station that is temporarily unreachable. This methodology is applicable to any distributed computing environment, such as a data communications network, in which it is desirable to have a central control unit assume the interface status polling operation of a temporarily inaccessible collection station. The collection station may be inaccessible due to the network on which the central control unit and the collection station reside being down or due to the collection station being down for maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wallace Clayton Davis, Darren D. Smith, Eric A. Pulsipher
  • Status polling failover of devices in a distributed network management hierarchy
    Publication number: 20020059417
    Abstract: Automatic failover methodology provides a mechanism whereby a central control unit, such as a management station, will automatically takeover interface status polling of objects of a collection station that is temporarily unreachable. This methodology is applicable to any distributed computing environment, such as a data communications network, in which it is desirable to have a central control unit assume the interface status polling operation of a temporarily inaccessible collection station. The collection station may be inaccessible due to the network on which the central control unit and the collection station reside being down or due to the collection station being down for maintenance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Inventors: Wallace Clayton Davis, Darren D. Smith, Eric A. Pulsipher
  • Automatic status polling failover or devices in a distributed network management hierarchy
    Patent number: 6295558
    Abstract: Automatic failover methodology provides a mechanism whereby a central control unit, such as a management station, will automatically takeover interface status polling of objects of a collection station that is temporarily unreachable. This methodology is applicable to any distributed computing environment, such as a data communications network, in which it is desirable to have a central control unit assume the interface status polling operation of a temporarily inaccessible collection station. The collection station may be inaccessible due to the network on which the central control unit and the collection station reside being down or due to the collection station being down for maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Wallace Clayton Davis, Darren D. Smith, Eric A. Pulsipher