Patents by Inventor Keith Allen Arner

Keith Allen Arner 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).

  • File system agnostic replication
    Patent number: 8326798
    Abstract: A replication operation service migrates data from a source volume having a source file system type to a destination volume having a destination file system type, where the source file system type may be different from the destination file system type. The replication operation is completed without interrupting the operations of a client device in the system. A stable copy of the source file system is generated on the source volume. A file system agnostic representation of a portion of the data in the source volume is generated from the stable copy. The representation is transmitted to the destination volume where it is converted to conform to the destination file system type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Network Appliance, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Stuart Driscoll, Peter Frank Corbett, Toby Smith, Devang K. Shah, Srishylam Simharajan, Keith Allen Arner, Joe Warren Dukes, Jr.