Patents by Inventor Paul A. Green, Jr.

Paul A. Green, Jr. 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).

  • Implementing standards-based file operations in proprietary operating systems
    Patent number: 6970892
    Abstract: A method for generating a file object identifier. A computer allocates memory to store the identifier. The disk volume holding the file object, the disk block holding the file object, and the value of the offset within the disk block holding the file object are stored in the allocated memory. In one embodiment, the file object is a file, a directory, or a symbolic link. In another embodiment, the memory allocated is 32 bits. In yet another embodiment, the disk volume value is a 4-bit value. In still another embodiment, the disk block value is a 23-bit value. In another embodiment, the block offset value is a 5-bit value. In another embodiment, the offset within the disk block is a multiple of 128 byte increments. In one embodiment, the generated file object identifier is a PORTABLE OPERATING SYSTEM INTERFACE (POSIX) file serial number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Stratus Technologies Bermuda LTD
    Inventors: Paul A. Green, Jr., Otto R. Newman, Robert N. Evans