Patents by Inventor Ken Owens

Ken Owens 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).

  • Automated backup and recovery for content repository
    Patent number: 7693889
    Abstract: Performing a backup is disclosed. A first set of data associated with a second set of data is backed up. The first set of data is made available for use before backing up the second set of data. The second set of data is backed up within a prescribed interval after completing the backup of the first set of data. One of the first set of data and the second set data comprises metadata associated with the other of the first set of data and the second set of data and the other comprises one or more items of managed content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Armorer, Anselmo Barrero, Brian Gardner, Roger W. Kilday, Ken Owens, Yasemin Ugur Ozekinci, Suavek Zajac
  • Save set bundling for staging
    Patent number: 7660956
    Abstract: Backing up data blocks is disclosed. An indication that a first set of one or more backed up data blocks are related at an application level to one or more other sets of one or more backed up data blocks is received. An associating data that associates the first set of backed up data blocks with the one or more other sets of backed up data blocks is stored. The associating data is used to ensure that the first set and the one or more other sets remain stored together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Anand Nadathur, Ken Owens, Yasemin Ugur Ozekinci
  • Dividing data for multi-thread backup
    Patent number: 7574461
    Abstract: Performing a backup is disclosed. One or more directories at a lowest level in a file directory associated with a storage is identified. The identified lowest level directories are divided into one or more directory groups. The backup of the directory groups is performed using parallel threads until all directory groups have been backed up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Armorer, Anselmo Barrero, Brian Gardner, Roger W. Kilday, Ken Owens, Yasemin Ugur Ozekinci, Suavek Zajac