Patents by Inventor William Pat Maynard

William Pat Maynard 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 and apparatus for load balancing
    Patent number: 8566445
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided in which a multi-site load balancing system directs a client to a site best able to respond to the client's request based on a combination of balancing methods. Performance metric balancing is employed to select sites having the best performance metrics to participate in network latency balancing to determine the site best able to respond the request. The sites participating in the network latency balancing are selected based on having performance metrics within an allowable deviation of the best performance metric. Alternatively, network latency balancing is employed to select sites having the least network latency to participate in performance metric balancing to determine the site best able to respond to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: William Pat Maynard
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOAD BALANCING
    Publication number: 20120191839
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided in which a multi-site load balancing system directs a client to a site best able to respond to the client's request based on a combination of balancing methods. Performance metric balancing is employed to select sites having the best performance metrics to participate in network latency balancing to determine the site best able to respond the request. The sites participating in the network latency balancing are selected based on having performance metrics within an allowable deviation of the best performance metric. Alternatively, network latency balancing is employed to select sites having the least network latency to participate in performance metric balancing to determine the site best able to respond to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventor: William Pat Maynard
  • Method and apparatus for load balancing
    Patent number: 8180921
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided in which a multi-site load balancing system directs a client to a site best able to respond to the client's request based on a combination of balancing methods. Performance metric balancing is employed to select sites having the best performance metrics to participate in network latency balancing to determine the site best able to respond the request. The sites participating in the network latency balancing are selected based on having performance metrics within an allowable deviation of the best performance metric. Alternatively, network latency balancing is employed to select sites having the least network latency to participate in performance metric balancing to determine the site best able to respond to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: William Pat Maynard
  • Method and apparatus for load balancing
    Publication number: 20020194335
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided in which a multi-site load balancing system directs a client to a site best able to respond to the client's request based on a combination of balancing methods. Performance metric balancing is employed to select sites having the best performance metrics to participate in network latency balancing to determine the site best able to respond the request. The sites participating in the network latency balancing are selected based on having performance metrics within an allowable deviation of the best performance metric. Alternatively, network latency balancing is employed to select sites having the least network latency to participate in performance metric balancing to determine the site best able to respond to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventor: William Pat Maynard