Patents by Inventor Miles Egan

Miles Egan 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 system for distributed serverless file management
    Patent number: 7463264
    Abstract: A method for serverless data management includes receiving an asset identifier in a first system, receiving data associated with the asset identifier in the first system, determining a resource in a storage network for storage of the asset data, in response to a path algorithm and the asset identifier, wherein the determination is made substantially free of interaction with the storage network, storing the asset data on the resource, creating a link between the asset identifier and the resource in the first system, receiving the asset identifier in a second system, determining the storage resource where the asset data is stored, in response to the path algorithm and the asset identifier, wherein the determination is made substantially free of interaction with the storage network and the first system, and creating a link between the asset identifier and the resource in the second computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Pixar
    Inventors: Mark Harrison, Chris Walker, Rudro Samanta, Miles Egan, Michael Fong
  • Method and system for distributed serverless file management
    Publication number: 20050256881
    Abstract: A method for serverless data management includes receiving an asset identifier in a first system, receiving data associated with the asset identifier in the first system, determining a resource in a storage network for storage of the asset data, in response to a path algorithm and the asset identifier, wherein the determination is made substantially free of interaction with the storage network, storing the asset data on the resource, creating a link between the asset identifier and the resource in the first system, receiving the asset identifier in a second system, determining the storage resource where the asset data is stored, in response to the path algorithm and the asset identifier, wherein the determination is made substantially free of interaction with the storage network and the first system, and creating a link between the asset identifier and the resource in the second computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Applicant: Pixar
    Inventors: Mark Harrison, Chris Walker, Rudro Samanta, Miles Egan, Michael Fong