Patents by Inventor Sean R. Gilhooly

Sean R. Gilhooly 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 apparatus for server share migration and server recovery using hierarchical storage management
    Patent number: 7593966
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for transferring a set of files. Metadata and stub files associated with the set of files are received at a destination fileserver, a location component in the destination fileserver is updated to maintain a list of repository nodes associated with each file in the set of files, and each stub file is replaced with the full content of the file associated with the stub file. The replacing includes receiving a client request for a specified file in the set of files and replacing the stub file associated with the specified file with a full content of the specified file if the full content of the specified file has not yet been transferred. Replacing the stub file associated with a requested file is a higher priority task than replacing a stub file associated with a non-requested file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Exagrid Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David G. Therrien, James E. Pownell, Adrian VanderSpek, Herman Robert Kenna, Thomas G. Hansen, Sean R. Gilhooly, Steven H. Evilia
  • Method and apparatus for server share migration and server recovery using hierarchical storage management
    Publication number: 20040088382
    Abstract: The present invention relates to computer primary data storage systems and methods that provide comprehensive data protection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventors: David G. Therrien, James E. Pownell, Adrian VanderSpek, Herman Robert Kenna, Thomas G. Hansen, Sean R. Gilhooly, Steven H. Evilia