Patents by Inventor Yichi C Pierce

Yichi C Pierce 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).

  • Quality of service resource management apparatus and method for middleware services
    Patent number: 8046464
    Abstract: A method of managing resources of an information system relative to clients of the system. A quality of service (QoS) message is received from a client expressing QoS requirements as parameter values. A contract is established with the client for quality of service based on the one or more parameter values. One or more resources of the system are allocated to the client based on the contract. This method enables uniform resource management and polymorphic resource allocation across multiple middleware platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Guijun Wang, Alice Chen, Changzhou Wang, Casey Fung, Stephen Uczekaj, Yichi C Pierce