Patents by Inventor Blaine Ryan Young

Blaine Ryan Young 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).

  • ISLANDS OF DATA
    Publication number: 20100332530
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates generation of islands of data in distributed storage environments such as network-based backup architectures. A partition component can assign a policy to a portion of data within a distributed storage environment to generate an island of data that includes at least the portion of data. In addition, an enforcement component can manages the island of data in accordance with the policy. For instance, the enforcement component can control at least one of access to the island of the data, distribution of the island of data, or deletion of the island of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Samuel J. McKelvie, Elissa E. S. Murphy, Mathew James Dickson, Blaine Ryan Young, James R. Hamilton