Gildfind

Andrew Gildfind, Richmond AU

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100146045	Multi-Class Heterogeneous Clients in a Clustered Filesystem - A cluster of computer system nodes connected by a storage area network include two classes of nodes. The first class of nodes can act as clients or servers, while the other nodes can only be clients. The client-only nodes require much less functionality and can be more easily supported by different operating systems. To minimize the amount of data transmitted during normal operation, the server responsible for maintaining a cluster configuration database repeatedly multicasts the IP address, its incarnation number and the most recent database generation number. Each node stores this information and when a change is detected, each node can request an update of the data needed by that node. A client-only node uses the IP address of the server to connect to the server, to download the information from the cluster database required by the client-only node and to upload local disk connectivity information.	06-10-2010

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110197220	CUSTOMIZED TELEVISION ADVERTISING - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing customized television advertisements. In one aspect, television advertising templates are used for generating customized television advertisements. The television advertisement templates include targeting criteria specifying targeting conditions for the television advertising template, which are conditions for selecting the television advertisement template for an advertisement availability, and content selection criteria specifying availability content associated with an advertisement availability for use in selecting variable advertisement content elements for inclusion in a customized television advertisement generated from the television advertising template. The variable advertisement content elements can include video elements, audio elements, and text elements.	08-11-2011

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100017545	Method for Empirically Determining a Qualified Bandwidth of File Storage for a Shared Filed System - A method for preventing oversubscription to a file storage by multiple processes, whether such processes are operating on one node with directly attached storage or on several nodes of a computing cluster sharing a storage area network. Processes or nodes issue requests for bandwidth reservations to a controller daemon. The controller daemon maintains records of all existing bandwidth reservations and ensures that new reservations are granted only if a qualified bandwidth of the file storage will not be exceeded. The qualified bandwidth is empirically determined to take into account installation specific hardware configurations, workloads, and quality of service requirements. In conjunction with suitable enabled client kernels the controller daemon serves to encapsulate all I/O activity including non-reserved I/O activity to the file storage by issuing non-guaranteed bandwidth leases for use by each node in servicing non-guaranteed process I/O activity, such leases being revokable by the controller daemon in order to service new guaranteed bandwidth reservation requests.	01-21-2010