Patents by Inventor Mathew J. McCormack

Mathew J. McCormack 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).

  • Clean store for operating system and software recovery
    Patent number: 8612398
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for automatically identifying a version of a file that is expected to be present on a computer system and for automatically replacing a potentially corrupted copy of the file with a clean (or undamaged) copy of the expected version. Upon identifying a file on the computer system as being potentially corrupted, a clean file agent may perform an analysis based on the identity of the file and one or more other properties of the system to determine the version of the file that is expected to be present on the system. Once the expected version is identified, a clean replacement copy of the file may be obtained from a clean file repository by submitting a version identifier of the expected version. The version identifier may be a hash value, which may additionally be used to verify integrity of the clean copy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael S. Jarrett, Vishal Kapoor, Mathew J. McCormack, Timothy D. Ebringer, Marc E. Seinfeld, Jeremy D. Croy, Alvin Loh
  • CLEAN STORE FOR OPERATING SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE RECOVERY
    Publication number: 20110225128
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for automatically identifying a version of a file that is expected to be present on a computer system and for automatically replacing a potentially corrupted copy of the file with a clean (or undamaged) copy of the expected version. Upon identifying a file on the computer system as being potentially corrupted, a clean file agent may perform an analysis based on the identity of the file and one or more other properties of the system to determine the version of the file that is expected to be present on the system. Once the expected version is identified, a clean replacement copy of the file may be obtained from a clean file repository by submitting a version identifier of the expected version. The version identifier may be a hash value, which may additionally be used to verify integrity of the clean copy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael S. Jarrett, Vishal Kapoor, Mathew J. McCormack, Timothy D. Ebringer, Marc E. Seinfeld, Jeremy D. Croy, Alvin Loh