Michael K Harvey

US Patent:

7549079, Jun 16, 2009

Filed:

Nov 30, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/289974

Inventors:

Sean Connolly - Nashua NH, US
Gary Allison - Nashua NH, US
Jiangbin Luo - Nashua NH, US
Nitin Yashwant Karkhanis - Nashua NH, US
Stephen John Vivian - Londonderry NH, US
Michael Seward Harvey - Hollis NH, US

Assignee:

Oracle International Corporation - Redwood Shores CA

International Classification:

G06F 11/00

US Classification:

714 5, 714 4, 714 46, 714 57

Abstract:

A graphical user interface based method of configuring automatic failover from a primary database system to a standby database system that is coupled to the primary database system by a network. Also coupled to the network is an observer process that is independent of the database systems and that initiates the failover process. The observer periodically pings the database systems to determine whether a failover is necessary. The graphical user interface permits a user to specify the primary and secondary database systems, configure the observer, and specify conditions under which a failover may occur and to enable automatic failover. A failover context is created from the inputs to the GUI and stored in persistent storage belonging to the database systems. If the Observer's context is stale, the Observer fetches the database system's context.

US Patent:

52428370, Sep 7, 1993

Filed:

Dec 24, 1990

Appl. No.:

7/632991

Inventors:

Rudolf E. Slovacek - Norfolk MA
Michael A. Harvey - Spofford NH

International Classification:

G01N 33536

US Classification:

436536

Abstract:

The present invention relates to an optical apparatus and a uniaxial method for rapidly measuring spectroscopically labelled specific binding analytes in a reaction assay mixture that contains unbound label without requiring the physical separation of the unbound label from the reaction mixture or sequential reagant additions and incubations. Moreover, the technique is equally applicable to measurements in either serum or whole blood.