Patents by Inventor Dane Dwyer

Dane Dwyer 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).

  • Application-directed variable-granularity caching and consistency management
    Patent number: 6446088
    Abstract: A system and method for application-directed variable-granularity consistency management, in one embodiment, carries out the steps of: predefining a template specifying a structure of a file; imposing the template on the file including registering fields/records within the file for consistency; creating an index table for the file; detecting a write to the file, at one of a file system server and a file system client; and queuing, upon detecting the write to the file and in the event a portion of the file to which the write occurs is registered for consistency, the write for propagation to another of the file system server and the file system client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Bharghavan Vaduvur, Dane Dwyer
  • Application-directed variable-granularity caching and consistency management
    Patent number: 6021413
    Abstract: A system and method for application-directed variable-granularity consistency management, in one embodiment, carries out the steps of: predefining a template specifying a structure of a file; imposing the template on the file including registering fields/records within the file for consistency; creating an index table for the file; detecting a write to the file, at one of a file system server and a file system client; and queuing, upon detecting the write to the file and in the event a portion of the file to which the write occurs is registered for consistency, the write for propagation to another of the file system server and the file system client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: The University of Illinois Board of Trustees
    Inventors: Bharghavan Vaduvur, Dane Dwyer