PROF. MICHAEL RAY YOUNG, CRNA
Medical Practice at Halket St, Pittsburgh, PA

6182143, Jan 30, 2001

Jun 25, 1998

9/104811

Andrew Blair Hastings - Pittsburgh PA
Shankar Ramaswamy - Bethal Park PA
Donald Edwin Schmitz - Pittsburgh PA
Qinhua Wang - Pittsburgh PA
Michael Wayne Young - Pittsburgh PA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1516

709231

A publish/subscribe data processing broker apparatus has: a means for receiving from a publisher application data messages published on a subject-specific stream by the publisher application; and a means for distributing the received published data messages to a subscriber application which has requested to receive messages on the stream upon which the published messages were published, the means for distributing including a plurality of connected distribution agent data processing units; wherein one of the streams is reserved for messages published by a publishing distribution agent data processing unit and intended for receipt by a subscribing distribution agent data processing unit located adjacent the publishing distribution agent data processing unit or intended for receipt by a subscriber application located adjacent the publishing distribution agent data processing unit.

7991822, Aug 2, 2011

Aug 29, 2007

11/847214

Thomas William Bish - Tucson AZ, US
Mark Albert Reid - Tucson AZ, US
Joseph M. Swingler - Tucson AZ, US
Michael Wayne Young - Pittsburgh PA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16

709200, 709223, 709224, 709225, 709226, 707704, 707687, 714 13

Local versions of attributes of a storage object are maintained at a plurality of nodes, wherein a first attribute designates a first node of the plurality of nodes as an owner node for the storage object, and wherein a second attribute includes information to resolve validity of ownership of the storage object among the plurality of nodes. The owner node communicates changes to be made to the local versions of the attributes at other nodes of the plurality of nodes. A second node of the plurality of nodes requests ownership of the storage object. The first attribute is updated to designate the second node of the plurality of nodes as the owner node, in response to determining from the second attribute that the validity of ownership of the storage object allows the second node to inherit ownership of the storage object once the first node surrenders ownership of the storage object.

8122449, Feb 21, 2012

Sep 7, 2007

11/852039

Steven M. Berman - Pittsburgh PA, US
Thirumale Niranjan - Bangalore, IN
Michael Wayne Young - Pittsburgh PA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 9/46, G06F 15/16

718102, 709235, 718104

Provided are techniques for workload balancing. A message is received on a channel. A thread in a thread pool is selected to process the message. In response to determining that the message has been processed and a response has been sent on the channel by the thread, it is determined whether a total number of threads in the thread pool is greater than a low water mark plus one and whether the channel has more than a maximum number of threads blocked on a receive, wherein the low water mark represents a minimum number of threads in the thread pool. In response to determining that a number of threads in the thread pool is greater than the low water mark plus one and that the channel has more than the maximum number of threads blocked on a receive, the thread is terminated. In response to determining at least one of the number of threads in the thread pool is less than or equal to the low water mark plus one and the channel has less than or equal to the maximum number of threads blocked on a receive, the thread is retained.

8229897, Jul 24, 2012

Feb 3, 2006

11/347515

David M. Cannon - Tucson AZ, US
Thomas K. Clark - Tucson AZ, US
Stephen F. Correl - Portland OR, US
Toby L. Marek - Santa Clara CA, US
David M. Wolf - Portland OR, US
Jason C. Young - Portland OR, US
Michael W. Young - Pittsburgh PA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 7/00, G06F 17/00, G06F 13/00, G06F 13/28

707679, 707644, 707645, 707646, 707680, 707681, 711162

A technique for implementing policy-aware backup and restore capability in a tiered storage system. If a data set's contents are backed up from the tiered storage system to a backup storage system, metadata for the data set may also be backed up. Prior to the data set being restored from the backup storage system to the tiered storage system, the backed up metadata is restored and processed to determine a tier among the tiered storage pools to which the data set will be restored.