Patents by Inventor Kevin F. Rodgers

Kevin F. Rodgers 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).

  • Virtual data store creation and use
    Patent number: 7991748
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for accessing units of storage that depends at least in part on an address of the unit of storage and the time that data was written to the unit of storage. A virtual data store can be created that reflects the state of an original data store at a specified time, where the specified time is selected, for example, from a substantially continuous time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Michael T. Rowan, Kevin F. Rodgers
  • Method for identifying the time at which data was written to a data store
    Patent number: 7725667
    Abstract: A method for identifying a time at which first data was written to a data store. A data store is configured to respond to data requests made to the data store with the data in the data store at a first time in the past. The method can be used to identify a time, for example, at which a data store was corrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Symantec Operating Corporation
    Inventors: Michael T. Rowan, Kevin F. Rodgers
  • Method and system for obtaining data stored in a data store
    Patent number: 7584337
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for accessing units of storage that depends at least in part on an address of the unit of storage and the time that data was written to the unit of storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Symantec Operating Corporation
    Inventors: Michael T. Rowan, Kevin F. Rodgers
  • Systems and methods for time dependent data storage and recovery
    Patent number: 7577806
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for accessing units of storage that depends at least in part on an address of the unit of storage and the time that data was written to the unit of storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Symantec Operating Corporation
    Inventors: Michael T. Rowan, Kevin F. Rodgers
  • Storage management device
    Patent number: 7272666
    Abstract: A storage management device includes a plurality of I/O processing modules for accessing units of storage by specifying an address and a time. The I/O processing modules receive I/O requests, classify I/O requests, and extract I/O control information associated with the I/O requests. The extracted I/O control information is processed and at least one physical store is communicated with in response to the processed I/O control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Symantec Operating Corporation
    Inventors: Michael T. Rowan, Kevin F. Rodgers