Patents by Inventor Joel Feaster

Joel Feaster 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).

  • System and method for socially organized storage and shared access to storage appliances
    Patent number: 9396156
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present invention relates to systems and methods for managing user data in a plurality of storage appliances coupled to a wide area network. In some embodiments, the present invention relates to systems and methods that allow users to view and manipulate files in a shared virtual container. In other embodiments, the present invention also relates to systems and methods that allow users to access virtual containers located on storage appliances that are owned by other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Connected Data, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey S. Barrall, John B. Turner, David Gary Mendelson, Brad Lee Morse, Joel Feaster
  • System and Method for Managing User Data in a Plurality of Storage Appliances Over a Wide Area Network for Collaboration, Protection, Publication, or Sharing
    Publication number: 20160117377
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present invention relates to a method of operating a server to manage user data in a plurality of storage appliances. The method involves establishing in a database system, via the server, information for each registered user; establishing and storing in the database system a set of relationships, based on designations by the users, among registered storage appliances and container designations; and using a central service running on the server to deliver storage appliance-container relationship data to the storage appliances so as to enable the appliances to substantiate the containers therein, and to replicate user data with other storage appliances that have substantiated corresponding containers, in a manner consistent with the stored relationships, and wherein the central service operates without interaction with user data stored in the containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Geoffrey S. Barrall, John B. Turner, David Gary Mendelson, Brad Lee Morse, Joel Feaster
  • System and method for managing user data in a plurality of storage appliances over a wide area network for collaboration, protection, publication, or sharing
    Patent number: 9218406
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present invention relates to a method of operating a server to manage user data in a plurality of storage appliances. The method involves establishing in a database system, via the server, information for each registered user; establishing and storing in the database system a set of relationships, based on designations by the users, among registered storage appliances and container designations; and using a central service running on the server to deliver storage appliance-container relationship data to the storage appliances so as to enable the appliances to substantiate the containers therein, and to replicate user data with other storage appliances that have substantiated corresponding containers, in a manner consistent with the stored relationships, and wherein the central service operates without interaction with user data stored in the containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Connected Data, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey S. Barrall, John B. Turner, David Gary Mendelson, Joel Feaster, Brad Lee Morse
  • System and Method for Socially Organized Storage and Shared Access to Storage Appliances
    Publication number: 20130290464
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present invention relates to systems and methods for managing user data in a plurality of storage appliances coupled to a wide area network. In some embodiments, the present invention relates to systems and methods that allow users to view and manipulate files in a shared virtual container. In other embodiments, the present invention also relates to systems and methods that allow users to access virtual containers located on storage appliances that are owned by other users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Geoffrey S. Barrall, John B. Turner, David Gary Mendelson, Brad Lee Morse, Joel Feaster
  • System and Method for Managing User Data in a Plurality of Storage Appliances Over a Wide Area Network for Collaboration, Protection, Publication, or Sharing
    Publication number: 20130290256
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present invention relates to a method of operating a server to manage user data in a plurality of storage appliances. The method involves establishing in a database system, via the server, information for each registered user; establishing and storing in the database system a set of relationships, based on designations by the users, among registered storage appliances and container designations; and using a central service running on the server to deliver storage appliance-container relationship data to the storage appliances so as to enable the appliances to substantiate the containers therein, and to replicate user data with other storage appliances that have substantiated corresponding containers, in a manner consistent with the stored relationships, and wherein the central service operates without interaction with user data stored in the containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Geoffrey S. Barrall, John B. Turner, David Gary Mendelson, Brad Lee Morse, Joel Feaster