Patents by Inventor Iain David Lewis

Iain David Lewis 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).

  • Managing access to disk storage
    Patent number: 7797484
    Abstract: A file access manager for scheduling of read/write operations and disk I/O operations for files that must be retrieved from disk storage. The file access manager schedules the operations such that a single file retrieval from disk is required for a plurality of processes to operate on the file. If any of the processes write to the file, a single disk write operation is then performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bharat Veer Bedi, Marc Stanley Carter, Iain David Lewis, Lucas William Partridge