Patents by Inventor Roy Child

Roy Child 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).

  • Utilizing data views to optimize secure data access in a storage system
    Patent number: 12001688
    Abstract: A storage system has filtered views of data. The storage system receives a read request for a filtered view of data in memory. The read request is associated with one or more permissions for viewing the data. The storage system identifies a subset of the data, based on the one or more permissions. The storage system provides the filtered view. The filtered view includes the subset of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Lee, John Colgrove, Bikash Roy Choudhury, Mandeep Arora, Roy Child, Purvaja Narayanaswamy, Cary A. Sandvig
  • Modify access restrictions in response to a possible attack against data stored by a storage system
    Patent number: 11755751
    Abstract: An illustrative method includes a data protection system determining that data stored by a storage system is under a possible attack, detecting a modify request with respect to the storage system while the data stored by the storage system is under the possible attack, determining that the modify request may be related to the possible attack, and performing, in response to determining that the modify request may be related to the possible attack, a remedial action with respect to the modify request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Child, Ronald Karr
  • Filesystem Property Based Determination of a Possible Ransomware Attack Against a Storage System
    Publication number: 20210216631
    Abstract: An illustrative method includes a data protection system identifying a first attribute set associated with a first file stored in a storage system, determining that the first file is replaced in the storage system with a second file, identifying a second attribute set associated with the second file, and determining, based on the determining that the first file is replaced in the storage system with the second file and on one or more attributes in at least one of the first attribute set or the second attribute set, that data stored by the storage system is possibly being targeted by a security threat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Roy Child, Robert Lee, Ivan Jibaja, Ronald Karr
  • Modify Access Restrictions in Response to a Possible Attack Against Data Stored by a Storage System
    Publication number: 20210216648
    Abstract: An illustrative method includes a data protection system determining that data stored by a storage system is under a possible attack, detecting a modify request with respect to the storage system while the data stored by the storage system is under the possible attack, determining that the modify request may be related to the possible attack, and performing, in response to determining that the modify request may be related to the possible attack, a remedial action with respect to the modify request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Roy Child, Ronald Karr
  • UTILIZING DATA VIEWS TO OPTIMIZE SECURE DATA ACCESS IN A STORAGE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20210019063
    Abstract: A storage system has filtered views of data. The storage system receives a read request for a filtered view of data in memory. The read request is associated with one or more permissions for viewing the data. The storage system identifies a subset of the data, based on the one or more permissions. The storage system provides the filtered view. The filtered view includes the subset of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Lee, John Colgrove, Bikash Roy Choudhury, Mandeep Arora, Roy Child, Purvaja Narayanaswamy, Cary A. Sandvig