Patents by Inventor Peter Mark Maddocks

Peter Mark Maddocks 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: 7509589
    Abstract: A method generates a graphical portion of a graphical user interface (GUI), the graphical portion concerning aspects of a storage domain. Such a method may include: illustrating a tree hierarchy; including, on the tree hierarchy, a node at a first level corresponding to a set of at least two file systems that are members of the storage domain; and including, on the tree hierarchy, nodes at a second level reporting to the first-level node, each second-level node corresponding to a member of the set of files systems to which the first node corresponds. Related apparatus and machine-readable media having instructions can each include features similar to elements of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Brian Scott Hallisey, Peter Mark Maddocks, James Walter Wichelman