Patents by Inventor Roderick David Wolfe Widdowson

Roderick David Wolfe Widdowson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • File system directory attribute correction
    Patent number: 9600486
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for facilitating file attribute correction. A computer system may receive a request to enumerate a first directory stored on a data storage. For a first file in the first directory, the computer system may determine that the first file has a corresponding first entry in an attribute cache, determine that the first entry for the first file indicates native file attributes that match the first file, and return for the first file at least one logical attribute indicated by the first entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: W. Anthony Mason, Scott J. Noone, Roderick David Wolfe Widdowson
  • FILE SYSTEM DIRECTORY ATTRIBUTE CORRECTION
    Publication number: 20150113011
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for facilitating file attribute correction. A computer system may receive a request to enumerate a first directory stored on a data storage. For a first file in the first directory, the computer system may determine that the first file has a corresponding first entry in an attribute cache, determine that the first entry for the first file indicates native file attributes that match the first file, and return for the first file at least one logical attribute indicated by the first entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: W. Anthony Mason, Scott J. Noone, Roderick David Wolfe Widdowson
  • File system directory attribute correction
    Patent number: 8903874
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for facilitating file attribute correction. A computer system may receive a request to enumerate a first directory stored on a data storage. For a first file in the first directory, the computer system may determine that the first file has a corresponding first entry in an attribute cache, determine that the first entry for the first file indicates native file attributes that match the first file, and return for the first file at least one logical attribute indicated by the first entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: W. Anthony Mason, Scott J. Noone, Roderick David Wolfe Widdowson
  • Methods and systems for remote data storage utilizing content addresses
    Publication number: 20130046846
    Abstract: In one general aspect, various embodiments are directed to a method of writing a data block to a memory comprising receiving an electronic write request from an application. A content address of a first data block considering the value for the first data block. A mapping of the first data block to the content address may be written to a logical end of the local block map. The mapping may also be written to a remote block map. If the content address is not present at a local data storage, the value of the first data block may be written to the local data storage at a first location and metadata associating the content address with the first location may be written to the local data storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: W. Anthony Mason, Roderick David Wolfe Widdowson
  • Methods and systems for data storage
    Publication number: 20100217948
    Abstract: In one general aspect, various embodiments are directed to a method of writing a data block to a memory comprising receiving an electronic write request from an application. A content address of a first data block considering the value for the first data block. A mapping of the first data block to the content address may be written to a logical end of the local block map. The mapping may also be written to a remote block map. If the content address is not present at a local data storage, the value of the first data block may be written to the local data storage at a first location and metadata associating the content address with the first location may be written to the local data storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: W. Anthony Mason, Roderick David Wolfe Widdowson