Patents by Inventor James T. Uren

James T. Uren 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).

  • Policy engine to control the servicing of requests received by a storage server
    Patent number: 7778981
    Abstract: Certain tasks are outsourced from a filer to a remote policy engine. The policy engine implements various defined policies to control the filer's servicing of client requests. For example, the policy engine can be used to implement policies to control various storage-related operations relating to data managed by a filer, such as creation, deletion, modification, opening, closing, renaming and/or changing attributes of files or directories managed by the filer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Armitano, Dejan L. Mihajlovic, Mark Muhlestein, Timothy J. Thompson, James T. Uren, Alan G. Yoder
  • Policy engine to control the servicing of requests received by a storage server
    Publication number: 20040230795
    Abstract: Certain tasks are outsourced from a filer to a remote policy engine. The policy engine implements various defined policies to control the filer's servicing of client requests. For example, the policy engine can be used to implement policies to control various storage-related operations relating to data managed by a filer, such as creation, deletion, modification, opening, closing, renaming and/or changing attributes of files or directories managed by the filer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: Robert M. Armitano, Dejan L. Mihajlovic, Mark Muhlestein, Timothy J. Thompson, James T. Uren, Alan G. Yoder