Patents by Inventor Gary Franco

Gary Franco 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).

  • Mobile device with secure private memory
    Patent number: 12259965
    Abstract: A mobile device can detect an idle state and, in response, initiate an access monitoring function to covertly monitor activity involving a human interaction with the mobile device. The covert monitoring is undetectable by a user of the mobile device. The mobile device can then detect a human interaction with the mobile device and, in response, cause the mobile device to covertly capture and log one or more human interactions with the mobile device. An authorized user of the mobile device is enabled to review the log of human interactions with the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventors: Jason Sean Gagne-Keats, Wolfgang Wesley Muller, Gary Anderson, Nicholas Franco, Jean-Baptiste Charles Theou
  • Tunneling SATA targets through fibre channel
    Publication number: 20060242312
    Abstract: A system for enabling SATA drives to be utilized in FC SANs is disclosed To send SATA FISs to a SATA drive over a FC SAN, a host sends SCSI commands encapsulated in FC frames over a standard FC link to a Fibre Channel Attached SATA Tunneling (FAST) RAID controller, where the SCSI commands are de-encapsulated from the FC frames and translated to SATA FISs. The SATA FISs are thereafter encapsulated into FC frames. The IOC that performs these functions is referred to as a FAST IOC. The SATA-encapsulated FC frames are sent to multiple disk drive enclosures over another standard FC link. The FC frames are de-encapsulated by FAST switches in disk drive enclosures to retrieve the SATA FISs, and the SATA FISs are sent to the SATA drives over a SATA connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: David Crespi, Carl Mies, Bruce Warren, Gary Franco
  • Method and apparatus for SATA tunneling over fibre channel
    Publication number: 20060230218
    Abstract: A system for enabling SATA drives to be utilized in FC SANs is disclosed. To send data to a SATA drive over a FC SAN, a host sends SCSI commands encapsulated in FC frames over a standard FC link to a Fibre Channel Attached SATA Tunneling (FAST) RAID controller, where the SCSI commands are de-encapsulated from the FC frames and translated to SATA FISs. The SATA FISs are thereafter encapsulated into FC frames. The IOC that performs these functions is referred to as a FAST IOC. The SATA-encapsulated FC frames are sent to multiple disk drive enclosures over another standard FC link. The FC frames are de-encapsulated by FAST switches in disk drive enclosures to retrieve the SATA FISs, and the SATA FISs are sent to the SATA drives over a SATA connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Applicant: Emulex design & Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce Warren, Curtis Nottberg, Carl Mies, Kevin Bowman, Noumaan Shah, Gary Franco