Randall R Schnier

7203769, Apr 10, 2007

Mar 14, 1997

08/818185

Randall R. Schnier - Rochester MN, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16

709330, 709303, 709219

A method and apparatus for bootstrapping an object client system with an object server system in a distributed system is provided. The method and apparatus are particularly applicable to use over the internet with web servers and web browsers. The method allows the use of a “zero install” web client to operate on remote objects through the web server, and can thus facilitate a host of distributed object operations. An object reference server is used to distribute an object reference for a naming context object to an object request broker on the web browser. In the preferred embodiment, the object reference server comprises a web server with access to the object reference and the object reference comprises a stringified object reference. By delivering the stringified object reference to the web browsers, interaction between the web browser and remote server objects over the internet is facilitated.

7480678, Jan 20, 2009

Oct 29, 2004

10/977769

James C. Krueger - Byron MN, US
Randall Richard Schnier - Rochester MN, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/30

707103R, 707103 X, 707103 Y, 707103 Z

A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, in response to a request to create a target object, create a reference object for the target object and bind the reference object to a name space without the target object being instantiated. In response to an invocation of a method on the reference object, a determination is made whether a target object associated with the reference object exists. If the target object does not already exist, the target object is instantiated. If the target object does already exist, the target object is returned. In this way, target objects are not instantiated until a method on the reference object is invoked, which in an embodiment increases the performance of the invoking application.

7953737, May 31, 2011

Dec 12, 2008

12/316533

James C. Krueger - Byron MN, US
Randall Richard Schnier - Rochester MN, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/30

707736, 707796

A storage medium and computer system that, in an embodiment, in response to a request to create a target object, create a reference object for the target object and bind the reference object to a name space without the target object being instantiated. In response to an invocation of a method on the reference object, a determination is made whether a target object associated with the reference object exists. If the target object does not already exist, the target object is instantiated. If the target object does already exist, the target object is returned. In this way, target objects are not instantiated until a method on the reference object is invoked, which in an embodiment increases the performance of the invoking application.

20130185415, Jul 18, 2013

Jan 17, 2012

13/351803

RANDALL R. SCHNIER - Rochester MN, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

G06F 15/173

709224

Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for managing workload distribution among a plurality of compute nodes are provided. Embodiments include monitoring, by the distribution controller, consumption of workload assignments by each compute node of the plurality of compute nodes; and distributing, by the distribution controller, unconsumed workload assignments to one or more compute nodes of the plurality of compute nodes based on the consumption of the workload assignments of each compute node of the plurality of compute nodes.