Patents by Inventor Phillip H. Leef

Phillip H. Leef 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).

  • Reboot system and method
    Patent number: 9880854
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for initiating a computing device includes setting a master reboot flag to no reboot required. A first software component in an initiation component stack is executed. Upon completing execution of the first software component, a determination is made concerning whether the computing device requires: an immediate reboot, a deferred reboot, or no reboot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Jackson B. Myers, Phillip H. Leef, Michael L. Burriss, Brion P. Philbin
  • Reserving storage space in data storage systems
    Patent number: 8949526
    Abstract: A method is used in reserving storage space in data storage systems. A set of logical units (LUs) predefined as file based storage hardware specific LUs are reserved in a restricted access storage space of a block based storage system. The restricted access storage space is accessed by a file based storage system for storing information required for initializing the file based storage system. The file based storage system is initialized using the information stored in the file based storage hardware specific LUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Mohamed Elayouty, Russell Laporte, Phillip H. Leef, Michael P. Gordon, Ashok Ramakrishnan