Patents by Inventor Stephen M Howard

Stephen M Howard 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: 7558840
    Abstract: A backup storage system includes a server having a restore operation that is independent from browse, mark and submit operations. A restore engine process is created as part of a restore session initiated by a client for retrieving a list of restorable objects to be displayed to a user via a graphical user interface. The user can browse the list of restorable objects, mark or select objects for restoration and submit the list of mark objects. Multiple restore submissions can be made prior to the user commanding the restore engine process, via a remote procedure call, to execute the submitted restore requests. To support new backup techniques and storage devices, a corresponding library can be added for processing with minimal impact to the overall restore system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen M. Howard, William Alton Gill, Robert Alan Boudrie, Glenn R. Sachar
  • Patent number: 7108533
    Abstract: A connector assembly is disclosed and claimed. The male connector comprises at least one conductive terminal held by a male plug body including a head portion and a gripping portion, the head portion including a plurality of raised elements extending radially outward from the head portion. The female connector comprises at least one mating conductive terminal held by a female plug body including a receiving portion and a gripping portion, the receiving portion adapted to receive the head portion of the male connector and including a plurality of recessed areas adapted to interlock with the raised elements of the head portion. The male plug body is preferably made from a substantially rigid plastic and the female plug body is made from a flexible plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: R.A. Phillips Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen M Howard
  • Patent number: 6743025
    Abstract: An electrical plug (60) comprising a body (16) having an end (40) carrying a plurality of first ones of corresponding pairs of male (14) and female (17) electrical connection moieties. The plug includes a sleeve (20) axially extending from the body end outwardly from the moieties. The sleeve is defined by an outer periphery and an end (36) spaced apart from the body end. Integrally molded with the sleeve is a circumferential flange (22) extending radially from the outer periphery of the sleeve at the sleeve end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: R.A. Phillips Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen M. Howard
  • Patent number: 6721766
    Abstract: A backup and restore system includes a work item server for restoring multiple work times simultaneously. The work item server assigns each work item to a respective trail queue based upon the commonality of the volumes on which the work items are stored. The work item server allocates drives to the trail queues for restoring multiple work items simultaneously. The trail queue have drives assigned for work items in that trail queues to use during a restore. The trail queue has a concurrency defined to predetermine the number of simultaneous work items can run that are associated with the trail queues. Drives can be allocated to the trail queues for executing work item restores associated with the respective trail queues until a predetermined trail queue concurrency is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: William Alton Gill, Stephen M. Howard, Robert Alan Boudrie, Glenn R. Sachar
  • Patent number: 6704886
    Abstract: A backup and restore system forms a persistent submit object from objects marked for restoration by a user. The submit object encapsulates the information needed to restore the work items contained in the submit object. The submit object enables restore execution to be independent from the browse, mark and submit operations. The submit object also allows multiple restore requests to be submitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: William Alton Gill, Stephen M. Howard, Robert Alan Boudrie, Glenn R. Sachar, Edgar J. StPierre
  • Publication number: 20030054688
    Abstract: An electrical plug (60) comprising a body (16) having an end (40) carrying a plurality of first ones of corresponding pairs of male (14) and female (17) electrical connection moieties. The plug includes a sleeve (20) axially extending from the body end outwardly from the moieties. The sleeve is defined by an outer periphery and an end (36) spaced apart from the body end. Integrally molded with the sleeve is a circumferential flange (22) extending radially from the outer periphery of the sleeve at the sleeve end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventor: Stephen M Howard
  • Patent number: D543942
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: R.A. Phillips Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen M Howard
  • Patent number: D561111
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Inventor: Stephen M Howard