Patents by Inventor Paul Para

Paul Para 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 rapid data-fragmentation analysis of a New Technology File System
    Patent number: 7461104
    Abstract: A method and system for rapid data-fragmentation analysis of a New Technology File System (NTFS) is described. In one embodiment, the Master File Table (MFT) associated with a NTFS volume is analyzed to estimate the extent of data fragmentation on the NTFS volume, the analysis being performed substantially without using directory index information associated with the NTFS volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Webroot Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Tony Nichols, Paul Para
  • Method and system for rapid data-fragmentation analysis of a file-allocation-table (FAT) file system
    Publication number: 20070226445
    Abstract: A method and system for rapid data-fragmentation analysis of a file-allocation-table (FAT) file system is described. One illustrative embodiment reads into a memory of a computer a FAT associated with a storage medium of the computer, the storage medium having a plurality of clusters, each cluster having an associated entry in the FAT; and analyzes, substantially without accessing a directory table associated with the storage medium, the FAT to estimate the extent of data fragmentation on the storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventors: Tony Nichols, Paul Para
  • Method and system for rapid data-fragmentation analysis of a New Technology File System (NTFS)
    Publication number: 20070226265
    Abstract: A method and system for rapid data-fragmentation analysis of a New Technology File System (NTFS) is described. In one embodiment, the Master File Table (MFT) associated with a NTFS volume is analyzed to estimate the extent of data fragmentation on the NTFS volume, the analysis being performed substantially without using directory index information associated with the NTFS volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventors: Tony Nichols, Paul Para