Patents by Inventor Michael Lee Burriss

Michael Lee Burriss 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).

  • Patent number: 11681450
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a re-initialization operation request for a storage array, the storage array including a plurality of self-encrypting drives. A reversion state may be determined for each self-encrypting drive of the plurality of self-encrypting drives. In response to determining that at least one self-encrypting drive is in an unreverted state, at least one predefined reversion key for reverting the at least one self-encrypting drive from a predefined area of the storage array may be accessed. Each self-encrypting drive of the plurality of self-encrypting drives in the unreverted state may be reverted to a reverted state using the at least one predefined reversion key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Lee Burriss, Colleen Marie Jacobson, Weixing Wang, Mahadevan Vasudevan
  • Publication number: 20220404991
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a re-initialization operation request for a storage array, the storage array including a plurality of self-encrypting drives. A reversion state may be determined for each self-encrypting drive of the plurality of self-encrypting drives. In response to determining that at least one self-encrypting drive is in an unreverted state, at least one predefined reversion key for reverting the at least one self-encrypting drive from a predefined area of the storage array may be accessed. Each self-encrypting drive of the plurality of self-encrypting drives in the unreverted state may be reverted to a reverted state using the at least one predefined reversion key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Lee Burriss, Colleen Marie Jacobson, Weixing Wang, Mahadevan Vasudevan
  • Publication number: 20040225864
    Abstract: A generic interface layer for providing a generic interface to a hardware environment for a program executing on the hardware environment. The generic interface layer is interrupt-driven. It includes driver code for devices in the hardware environment that is executed in response to software interrupts from the program and interrupt handling code for handling interrupts from the hardware environment. The interrupt handling code responds to an interrupt by calling a callback in the program. The generic interface layer includes a loader for loading the program and a debugger for controlling execution of the program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Michael Lee Burriss, Stephen Gardner Worth, Jerry W. Huff, Paul A. Bong
  • Patent number: 6766519
    Abstract: A generic interface layer for providing a generic interface to a hardware environment for a program executing on the hardware environment. The generic interface layer, is interrupt-driven. It includes driver code for devices in the hardware environment that is executed in response to software interrupts from the program and interrupt handling code for handling interrupts from the hardware environment. The interrupt handling code responds to an interrupt by calling a callback in the program. The generic interface layer includes a loader for loading the program and a debugger for controlling execution of the program. Execution of code in the generic interface layer may be coordinated by the system timer interrupt code that is executed in response to a system timer interrupt. Code that is executing in the generic interface layer may register itself or other code with the system timer interrupt code, which then executes the code in response to a system timer interrupt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Lee Burriss, Stephen Gardner Worth, III, Jerry W. Huff, Paul A. Bong