Patents by Inventor Fran Corrado

Fran Corrado 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).

  • Mechanism to control access to a storage device
    Patent number: 7634629
    Abstract: A computer system is disclosed. The computer system includes a storage device, a device controller and a chipset. The device controller includes lock registers having values that correspond to the ranges of locked sectors of the storage device. The lock registers verify if a storage device access request is targeted for ranges of sectors of the storage device that are locked. The chipset includes an embedded controller to authenticate the storage device access request and to manage configuration of the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Nemiroff, Howard C. Herbert, Nimrod Diamant, Moshe Maor, Carey W. Smith, Amber Huffman, Fran Corrado, Michael A. Rothman, Vincent J. Zimmer
  • Method for dynamically exposing backup and restore volumes
    Publication number: 20070150651
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for storing and protecting a restore environment is provided. The restore environment is stored in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) volume which is hidden from an operating system during runtime operations. Upon detecting that a restore operation is required due to a corrupted or missing image, the RAID volume storing the restore environment is dynamically exposed so that it can be accessed by the restore operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Daniel Nemiroff, Fran Corrado
  • Mechanism to control access to a storage device
    Publication number: 20070143555
    Abstract: A computer system is disclosed. The computer system includes a storage device, a device controller and a chipset. The device controller includes lock registers having values that correspond to the ranges of locked sectors of the storage device. The lock registers verify if a storage device access request is targeted for ranges of sectors of the storage device that are locked. The chipset includes an embedded controller to authenticate the storage device access request and to manage configuration of the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventors: Daniel Nemiroff, Howard Herbert, Nimrod Diamant, Moshe Maor, Carey Smith, Amber Huffman, Fran Corrado, Michael Rothman, Vincent Zimmer