Patents by Inventor Michael Ruthruff

Michael Ruthruff 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).

  • Publication number: 20070162512
    Abstract: In order to provide a reporting (read-only) copy of an original database, copy-on-write technology is used to quickly create a shadow copy which contains pointers to the data in the original database. When no changes are allowed to the shadow copy, the copy-on-write technology functions to create a static snapshot of the original database at the point in time that the reporting copy was created. The overhead in providing a reporting copy is thus reduced, as no wholesale copying of the original database is required, and updates can be performed quickly. Because the reporting copy is read-only, multiple reporting servers can use the same copy-on-write maintained copy of the original database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Lubor Kollar, Michael Ruthruff, Stuart Ozer