George G Behrend, 50111 W 94Th St UNIT 3B, New York, NY 10025

2007005, Mar 1, 2007

Aug 25, 2005

11/211396

Christopher DeRobertis - Hopewell Junction NY, US
George Behrend - New York NY, US
Julianne Haugh - Austin TX, US
Yantian Lu - Round Rock TX, US

G06F 11/00

714043000

A system cluster, a method and a recording medium are provided in which an administering host system of a cluster maintains global information for globally managing the availability of services to users on a basis of the system cluster. Individual host systems also maintain local information, the local information being usable for locally managing the availability of services or resources to users of those host systems. Thus, the availability of services to users of the cluster is managed locally for some users via referring to the local information at the host system to which the user makes a request. For other users, the availability of services is managed via referring to the global information. A table is maintained at each of the host systems which indicates for each user defined to the cluster whether the services available to the particular user are managed globally or locally.

2007017, Jul 26, 2007

Jan 18, 2006

11/334209

George Behrend - New York NY, US
Christopher DeRobertis - Hopewell Junction NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/30

707200000

Disclosed are a method of and system for managing plural files registries, for use with a computer operating system having a user/group management operation. The method comprises the steps of creating a plurality of files registries, and providing an administrator with access to each of said plurality of files registries independent of all of the others of said plurality of file registries. Preferably, this is done by inserting, for each of said plurality of files registries, a respective one instruction into the user/group management operation specifying a base directory path to said each of said plurality of files registries.

2007018, Aug 2, 2007

Jan 18, 2006

11/334210

George Behrend - New York NY, US
Christopher DeRobertis - Hopewell Junction NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H04L 9/32
G06F 15/16

709229000, 726004000

Disclosed are a method of and system for defining user account validity in a cluster of computer systems. The method comprises the steps of providing a centralized management system for said cluster; and using said centralized management system to maintain a record indicating, for each user of the cluster, whether the user is valid on each of the computer systems in the cluster. Preferably, the step of using said centralized management system includes the step of using said centralized management system to create a user account validity definition, and to identify in said definition which ones of the users are valid on which ones of the computer systems.

2007028, Dec 6, 2007

Jun 6, 2006

11/422361

George G. Behrend - New York NY, US
Christopher V. DeRobertis - Hopewell Junction NY, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16

709208

Methods and apparatus for processing of a distributed remote shell command are disclosed. In some embodiments, a target host receives from a client a remote shell command specifying an operation to be performed by an operating system at the target host. The target host performs the specified operation and formulates a response that has a first part containing target host identification data for the target host and a second part showing a result of performance of the specified operation. The target host issues the response to the client.