Patents by Inventor Frederick Glover

Frederick Glover 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for a fine grained file data storage system
    Publication number: 20070239806
    Abstract: A method for maintaining access information for individual data portions within a file. Generally, the system disclosed herein provides a method for procuring and maintaining various access information specific to data portions within a file. Thus, by providing specific access information to a file data portion the access manager allows a process to perform processing on the individual file data portion. Consequently, the process can operate more efficiently since it is no longer required to access and perform processing on the entire file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Frederick Glover
  • Transparent migration of files among various types of storage volumes based on file access properties
    Publication number: 20060080365
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method and system for storing a file in a storage domain is provided. The method includes monitoring access to a file to determine a file access pattern, tagging the file to indicate the identified access pattern and using the tag to identify an appropriate storage medium in a storage domain for the file, when available, based on the access pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: Frederick Glover, Timothy Mark, Doug Williams