Patents by Inventor Robert R. Snead

Robert R. Snead 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 user protected media pool
    Patent number: 7844833
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for dynamically, segregating storage resources, pooling such resources into groups, assigning and associating security attributes with those groups. The present invention is further directed to protecting storage media within a shared mass storage device in a network computing environment by utilizing the security attributes. The system of the present invention incorporates a client/server and networked storage device infrastructure that allows dynamic and automatic support of access to storage devices from a plurality of client/server systems on a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Robert R. Snead
  • Method and system for providing state change notifications in device drivers
    Patent number: 7171671
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for asynchronously providing interested applications of state changes in removable devices. A device driver polls the device associated with the driver for state changes. The state changes result in a change notification being generated. The driver provides the change notifications to the interested applications. The present invention also provides a change notification by a device driver to interested applications when a client application initiates a change in the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert R. Snead, Narasimhan Ramasubramanian
  • Method and system for user protected media pool
    Publication number: 20030236988
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for dynamically, segregating storage resources, pooling such resources into groups, assigning and associating security attributes with those groups. The present invention is further directed to protecting storage media within a shared mass storage device in a network computing environment by utilizing the security attributes. The system of the present invention incorporates a client/server and networked storage device infrastructure that allows dynamic and automatic support of access to storage devices from a plurality of client/server systems on a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2002
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Inventor: Robert R. Snead
  • Method and system for providing state change notifications in device drivers
    Publication number: 20030041179
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for asynchronously providing interested applications of state changes in removable devices. A device driver polls the device associated with the driver for state changes. The state changes result in a change notification being generated. The driver provides the change notifications to the interested applications. The present invention also provides a change notification by a device driver to interested applications when a client application initiates a change in the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2001
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert R. Snead, Narasimhan Ramasubramanian