Patents by Inventor Kevin Collims

Kevin Collims 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).

  • Providing requested file mapping information for a file on a storage device
    Patent number: 7308463
    Abstract: A resolve agent for providing requested file mapping information for a file on a storage device. The agent comprises an application programming interface through which file identifying information is provided to the resolve agent and the requested file mapping information provided by the resolve agent; and file system logic configured to ascertain the requested file mapping information from file data structures on the storage device according to a file system that created the file data structure on the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bradley Taulbee, Scott Spivak, Michael Fleischmann, Gary Cain, Kevin Collims