Patents by Inventor Jeffrey A. Andre

Jeffrey A. Andre 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).

  • Patent number: 7350043
    Abstract: A continuous data protection system, and associated method, for point-in-time data recovery. The system includes a consistency group of data volumes. A support processor manages a journal of changes to the set of volumes and stores meta-data for the volumes. A storage processor processes write requests by: determining if the write request is for a data volume in the consistency group; notifying the support processor of the write request including providing data volume meta-data; and storing modifications to the data volume in a journal. The support processor receives a data restoration request including identification of the consistency group and a time for data restoration. The support processor uses the data volume meta-data to reconstruct a logical block map of the data volume at the requested time and directs the storage processor to make a copy of the data volume and map changed blocks from the journal into the copy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Andre, Patrick J. Tomsula