Patents by Inventor Mark L. Shellenbaum

Mark L. Shellenbaum 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).

  • Method and apparatus for providing extended file attributes in an extended attribute namespace
    Patent number: 6789094
    Abstract: A system for providing extended file attributes is described. Logically, attributes are supported as files within the file system. In this way, the file system is augmented with an orthogonal namespace of file attributes. According, any file (including attribute files) may have an arbitrarily deep attribute tree associated with it. Access to the attribute values is via file descriptors obtained via a special attribute interface. This logical view of “attributes as files” allows the leveraging of existing file system interface functionality to support the construction, deletion, and manipulation of attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew M. Rudoff, Mark J. Maybee, Mark L. Shellenbaum
  • System for providing extended file attributes
    Publication number: 20020062301
    Abstract: A system for providing extended file attributes is described. Logically, attributes are supported as files within the file system. In this way, the file system is augmented with an orthogonal namespace of file attributes. According, any file (including attribute files) may have an arbitrarily deep attribute tree associated with it. Access to the attribute values is via file descriptors obtained via a special attribute interface. This logical view of “attributes as files” allows the leveraging of existing file system interface functionality to support the construction, deletion, and manipulation of attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventors: Andrew M. Rudoff, Mark J. Maybee, Mark L. Shellenbaum