Indumathi Shankar

Title: Indumathi Shankar: Inventor in Virtualization and Cluster Computing.

Introduction

Indumathi Shankar is an inventor based in Los Altos, California. Her patent work addresses reliability and coordination in virtualized computing systems. She is credited with 3 patents and is associated with Symantec Corporation.

Latest Patents

One of Shankar’s latest patents, “Method and System for Enhanced Granularity in Fencing Operations,” describes registering separate keys for processes and shared data resources. If one process fails, its associated key can be deregistered while the key for another process remains registered. This approach enables more targeted fencing of resources.

Her patent “Message Broadcast Protocol Which Handles Configuration Changes in a Cluster of Virtual Servers” concerns communication among physical nodes running virtual servers. Because configuration changes can temporarily prevent a node from responding to messages, the described protocol accounts for these periods of unresponsiveness and helps the cluster handle them gracefully.

Career Highlights

Shankar’s disclosed inventions focus on managing failures and configuration changes in complex computing environments. Her work at Symantec Corporation connects her patent activity with enterprise software and virtualization technologies.

Collaborations

Shankar’s listed coworkers include Avanish Mishra and Grace Jing Chen. The available information identifies them as coworkers but does not specify their roles in the patents described here.

Conclusion

Indumathi Shankar’s patents address practical challenges in virtualized systems, including resource fencing after process failures and message coordination during cluster configuration changes.