Patents by Inventor Michael E. Mazarick

Michael E. Mazarick 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).

  • System and method for initializing and maintaining a series of virtual local area networks contained in a clustered computer system
    Patent number: 7975033
    Abstract: A system and method for sharing network resources; the system comprising: (1) at least one network switch; (2) a plurality of computing devices, where the computing device comprises (i) at least one network connection; (ii) a plurality of processing nodes; and (iii) at least one storage device containing software for (a) initializing and maintaining a plurality of top-layer virtual local area networks (VLANs), (b) initializing and maintaining a plurality of client VLANs; and (c) using an empty VLAN as a virtual wire between the client VLAN and a shared network resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Virtudatacenter Holdings, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Michael S. Mazarick, Michael E. Mazarick