Patents by Inventor Gururajan Raghavendran

Gururajan Raghavendran 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).

  • Unified file access across multiple protocols
    Patent number: 8620955
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to construct a file system tree that includes files to be accessed according to a plurality of custom access control list (ACL) access mechanisms registered by a corresponding plurality of applications, or a default ACL access mechanism. To access the files, metadata can be read/written using a multiple protocol file system cache engine and one of the ACL access mechanisms. In some embodiments, operations may include registering, in response to a request by an application, a selected one of the plurality of custom ACL access mechanisms with a library coupled to a multiple protocol file system cache engine. Further operations may include accessing a file system through the multiple protocol file system cache engine using the selected one of the plurality of custom ACL access mechanisms, or a default ACL access mechanism. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Balaji Swaminathan, Gururajan Raghavendran
  • UNIFIED FILE ACCESS ACROSS MULTIPLE PROTOCOLS
    Publication number: 20100241667
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to construct a file system tree that includes files to be accessed according to a plurality of custom access control list (ACL) access mechanisms registered by a corresponding plurality of applications, or a default ACL access mechanism. To access the files, metadata can be read/written using a multiple protocol file system cache engine and one of the ACL access mechanisms. In some embodiments, operations may include registering, in response to a request by an application, a selected one of the plurality of custom ACL access mechanisms with a library coupled to a multiple protocol file system cache engine. Further operations may include accessing a file system through the multiple protocol file system cache engine using the selected one of the plurality of custom ACL access mechanisms, or a default ACL access mechanism. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventors: Balaji Swaminathan, Gururajan Raghavendran