Patents by Inventor Dennis M. Sumners

Dennis M. Sumners 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).

  • Intelligent backup and restoring system and method for implementing the same
    Patent number: 6477629
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus, a system, a computer readable media, and a method for protecting data of a computer system. The method includes: (a) connecting a peripheral storage device to the computer system; (b) preparing a storage media of the peripheral storage device to be a protection enabled media; (c) selecting a backup set of data stored in a hard drive of the computer system, the backup set of data includes a default set of boot files and operating system files; (d) creating a spare tire backup using file-based copying from the hard-drive of the computer system to the storage media of the peripheral storage device; (e) enabling the peripheral storage device to incrementally copy portions of the backup set of data from the hard drive of the computer system during normal use; and (f) booting the computer system from the peripheral storage device when a failure occurs with the hard drive that disables normal booting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Adaptec, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael M. Goshey, Guido Maffezzoni, Gilbert Chang-Tying Wu, Yen-Chung Lin, John D. Nguyen, Roger A. Stoller, Kristine N. Luong, Robert S. Hudson, David A. Coleman, Dennis M. Sumners, Thanh T. Bui, Tony Fu, Tony G. Kwan
  • Intelligent backup and restoring system and method for implementing the same
    Patent number: 6205527
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus, a system, a computer readable media, and a method for protecting data of a computer system. The method includes: (a) connecting a peripheral storage device to the computer system; (b) preparing a storage media of the peripheral storage device to be a protection enabled media; (c) selecting a backup set of data stored in a hard drive of the computer system, the backup set of data includes a default set of boot files and operating system files; (d) creating a spare tire backup using file-based copying from the hard drive of the computer system to the storage media of the peripheral storage device; (e) enabling the peripheral storage device to incrementally copy portions of the backup set of data from the hard drive of the computer system during normal use; and (f) booting the computer system from the peripheral storage device when a failure occurs with the hard drive that disables normal booting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Adaptec, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael M. Goshey, Guido Maffezzoni, Gilbert Chang-Tying Wu, Yen-Chung Lin, John D. Nguyen, Roger A. Stoller, Kristine N. Luong, Robert S. Hudson, David A. Coleman, Dennis M. Sumners, Thanh T. Bui, Tony Fu, Tony G. Kwan