Patents by Inventor Stewart C. Woodworth, III

Stewart C. Woodworth, III 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).

  • Intercepting control of a host I/O process
    Patent number: 6954835
    Abstract: A data-mirroring method in which, while an I/O process is processing a first I/O request for writing data to a first device, control is obtained from that I/O process executing on a host computer. A second I/O request, this one for writing the data to the second device, is then created. Then, control is returned to the I/O process by causing the first I/O request to be made available to a first data storage system managing the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas E. Lecrone, Paul A. Linstead, Daniel A. Murphy, Denis E. Hall, Raymond Wong, Eugene D. Pflueger, Kevin C. Heasley, Michael E. Specht, Stewart C. Woodworth, III