Patents by Inventor John O. Colgrove

John O. Colgrove 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).

  • Methods, functional data, and systems to represent a storage environment
    Patent number: 7293030
    Abstract: Methods, functional data, and systems for logically representing a storage environment are provided. A target storage environment having one or more storage data objects is mapped to a data structure. Any subsequent disparate or remote but similar storage environment has direct or indirect access to the data structure such that one or more of the data objects are permissibly directly/indirectly referenced or replicated within the disparate or remote but similar storage storage environment. Changes to the data structure are communicated, thereby ensuring the reliable use of the representation for the target storage environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Symantec Operating Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas W. Lanzatella, Graham Bromley, John O. Colgrove, Ron Karr, Blaine T. Cuykendall, Oleg Kiselev, Craig Harmer, Allen Unueco, Steven Michael Umbehocker
  • Methods, systems, and apparatus to interface with storage objects
    Patent number: 7117505
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus to interface with storage objects are provided. A storage object handle is provided on request and a storage object is mapped within a first storage environment. Further, a configuration identifier notifies client modules when the storage object's physical locations are altered in the first storage environment. API libraries provide client modules access to use the storage object, even when the client modules reside in a second storage environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Veritas Operating Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas W. Lanzatella, Graham Bromley, John O. Colgrove, Ron Karr, Blaine T. Cuykendall, Oleg Kiselev, Craig Harmer, Allen Unueco, Steven Micheal Umbehocker