Paul Castro DeceasedBronx, NY

7487142, Feb 3, 2009

Jun 10, 2004

10/865058

Norman Howard Cohen - Suffern NY, US
Paul C. Castro - White Plains NY, US
Archan Misra - Irvington NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 7/00

707 3, 707 2, 707 4, 707 5, 707 6, 707100

Improved descriptive query techniques are provided. More particularly, techniques are provided for specifying and processing descriptive queries for data providers grouped into provider kinds with hierarchical containment relationships. The query may include arbitrary boolean combinations of arbitrary tests on the values of attributes of the data providers.

7487158, Feb 3, 2009

Feb 1, 2005

11/048671

Paul C. Castro - White Plains NY, US
Archan Misra - Irvington NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/30

707 10, 707 5, 707 9, 707201, 709217

A method for dynamically setting up collaborative associations between a group of users, computing resources, and/or communication devices, where the constituents of the collaborative association are chosen based on a variety of contextual criteria. The dynamic collaboration enabler component determines the explicit identities of the parties that should be a part of the collaboration. The group of individual entities involved in the collaboration can change dynamically during the lifetime of the collaboration, based on appropriate changes in the contextual data. Such contextual data refers to both state variables associated with the collaboration software or infrastructure itself, or to the state of entities external to the collaboration. The duration of the collaborative association is specified either explicitly or through a set of context related conditions. The dynamic context enabler can detect when the set of termination conditions is satisfied and then automatically remove the collaborative association.

7487191, Feb 3, 2009

Jun 10, 2005

11/150072

Paul C. Castro - Harrison NY, US
Frederique A. Giraud - Ossining NY, US
Ravindranath Konuru - Tarrytown NY, US
Apratim Purakayastha - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Danny L. Yeh - Irvington NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/00

707204, 707100, 707101, 707102, 707 10, 709248, 709205, 700 29

Techniques for replicating data in a system having a data tier with a plurality of data sources and an application tier with a plurality of applications are provided. Such techniques can include creating an instance of an information model of the data that is specified by a schema. The model can be created in a form that is suitable for manipulation by at least one of the applications and that forms at least a portion of a model tier that is intermediate the data tier and the application tier. A replica of an instance of the information model can be created in a form suitable for remote transmission, and a consistency policy can be obtained that specifies a level of consistency required between the instance of the information model and the replica.

7543000, Jun 2, 2009

Jan 23, 2006

11/337393

Paul C. Castro - Harrison NY, US
Ravindranath Konuru - Tarrytown NY, US
Avraham Leff - New Hempstead NY, US
James T. Rayfield - Ridgefield CT, US
Danny L. Yeh - Irvington NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 12/00
G06F 17/30

707201

A system, method and computer program product for synchronizing replicas of shared data structures associated with one or more computer systems. The method comprises: evaluating a metric for performing a replica synchronization operation on a first computer system according to a first synchronization method; evaluating the metric for performing a replica synchronization operation on the first computer system according to a second synchronization method; and, selecting, at synchronization time, based on the evaluated metric, whether to use the first or second synchronization methods, and communicating a command to a second computer system to replicate a shared data structure based on the selected synchronization method.

7721139, May 18, 2010

Mar 27, 2007

11/691792

Paul C. Castro - Harrison NY, US
Frederique A. Giraud - Ossining NY, US
Ravi Konuru - Tarrytown NY, US
John J. Ponzo - Hawthorne NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 11/00

714 4, 709202

A method, system, and computer program product are provided for managing data in a browser-based application. The application is opened in the browser, and a subset of the application is arbitrarily specified as data. Different versions of the subset of the application specified as data are caused to persist so that they may be recovered later. Persistence and recovery of the subset of the application specified as data are performed in a manner transparent to the application.

7779415, Aug 17, 2010

Nov 21, 2003

10/718401

Chatschik Bisdikian - Chappaqua NY, US
Paul C. Castro - White Plains NY, US
Archan Misra - Irvington NY, US
Jinwon Lee - Gongju, KR

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 9/46

718105

A method, system, and computer program for dynamically adjusting the workload of an active resource associated with at least one parent workload group. The parent workload group includes a collection of workload units, with each associated to a key identifier such that workload units belonging to the parent workload group share an identical sequence of values at a specified depth value of the key identifier. The active resource independently determines whether an overload condition exists. If an overload condition exists, the depth value of the parent workload group is increased. The active resource may also consolidate a workload group if an under-load condition exists. Dynamically adjusting the workload of an active resource can be used as part of a method or system to dynamically adjust the workload of a distributed computing application across a dynamically varying set of active resources, and subsequently redirecting entities to the dynamically changing target resource.

7890583, Feb 15, 2011

Oct 9, 2008

12/248236

Paul C. Castro - White Plains NY, US
Archan Misra - Irvington NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H06F 15/16

709204, 709205, 709206, 715753, 715754, 715755, 707662

A method, system, and computer program for dynamically setting up collaborative associations between a group of users, computing resources, and/or communication devices, where the constituents of the collaborative association are chosen based on a variety of contextual criteria. The dynamic collaboration enabler component determines the explicit identities of the parties that should be a part of the collaboration. The group of individual entities involved in the collaboration can change dynamically during the lifetime of the collaboration, based on appropriate changes in the contextual data. Such contextual data refers to both state variables associated with the collaboration software or infrastructure itself, or to the state of entities external to the collaboration. The duration of the collaborative association is specified either explicitly or through a set of context related conditions. The dynamic context enabler can detect when the set of termination conditions is satisfied and then automatically remove the collaborative association.

8108338, Jan 31, 2012

Oct 31, 2008

12/262267

Paul C. Castro - Harrison NY, US
Frederique A. Giraud - Ossining NY, US
Ravindranath Konuru - Tarrytown NY, US
Apratim Purakayastha - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Danny L. Yeh - Irvington NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/00

707610, 707694, 707810

Techniques for replicating data in a system having a data tier with a plurality of data sources and an application tier with a plurality of applications are provided. Such techniques can include creating an instance of an information model of the data that is specified by a schema. The model can be created in a form that is suitable for manipulation by at least one of the applications and that forms at least a portion of a model tier that is intermediate the data tier and the application tier. A replica of an instance of the information model can be created in a form suitable for remote transmission, and a consistency policy can be obtained that specifies a level of consistency required between the instance of the information model and the replica.