Patents by Inventor Jerry SHEA

Jerry SHEA 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).

  • Optimizing content storage through stubbing
    Patent number: 11442897
    Abstract: In some examples, a client device may send, to a service computing device over a network, a request for information related to a change to a file system associated with the client device. In response, the client device may receive, from the service computing device, a list of one or more changes to the file system. The client device may add and/or update metadata for a stub file on the client device based at least partially on the received list of one or more changes. In some cases, the stub file may include a stub data structure stored on the client device, while the file content of the file corresponding to the stub file may be stored at a storage over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI VANTARA LLC
    Inventors: Richard Bramante, Scott Yaninas, Sowmya Manjanatha, Jerry Shea
  • OPTIMIZING CONTENT STORAGE THROUGH STUBBING
    Publication number: 20190286613
    Abstract: In some examples, a client device may send, to a service computing device over a network, a request for information related to a change to a file system associated with the client device. In response, the client device may receive, from the service computing device, a list of one or more changes to the file system. The client device may add and/or update metadata for a stub file on the client device based at least partially on the received list of one or more changes. In some cases, the stub file may include a stub data structure stored on the client device, while the file content of the file corresponding to the stub file may be stored at a storage over the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Richard BRAMANTE, Scott YANINAS, Sowmya MANJANATHA, Jerry SHEA