Patents by Inventor Behnam Fathi

Behnam Fathi 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).

  • Method and system of previewing a volume revert operation
    Patent number: 7383466
    Abstract: Described is a revert preview mechanism, which gives the user a chance to temporarily remount a storage volume with the contents of a shadow copy, and then evaluate the computer system as if reverted, including allowing full I/O read and write operations to the storage volume. A temporary storage location is provided to cache data writes. Read requests are read back from the temporary storage location if the corresponding volume location has been written, or are read back from the shadow copy of the volume if not written since the revert preview operation began. In the case of a revert preview of the boot volume, an API is used to specify a correct shadow copy instance of the system registry hive, which needs to be loaded following reboot, but before the shadow copy driver is loaded. Use of the API loads the correct instance on the next reboot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Norbert P. Kusters, Behnam Fathi, Dragos C. Sambotin
  • Method and system of previewing a volume revert operation
    Publication number: 20060155784
    Abstract: Described is a revert preview mechanism, which gives the user a chance to temporarily remount a storage volume with the contents of a shadow copy, and then evaluate the computer system as if reverted, including allowing full I/O read and write operations to the storage volume. A temporary storage location is provided to cache data writes. Read requests are read back from the temporary storage location if the corresponding volume location has been written, or are read back from the shadow copy of the volume if not written since the revert preview operation began. In the case of a revert preview of the boot volume, an API is used to specify a correct shadow copy instance of the system registry hive, which needs to be loaded following reboot, but before the shadow copy driver is loaded. Use of the API loads the correct instance on the next reboot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Norbert Kusters, Behnam Fathi, Dragos Sambotin