Inventor

Randal Chilton Burns

Inventor

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Overview

1999–2006

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 15 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Fprimary

G06FElectric digital data processing50%

Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests35%

H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication12%

H03MCoding4%

PatentTitleYear

7,139,781'Managing filesystem versions'2006 7,085,909'Method, system and computer program product for implementing copy-on-write of a file'2006 6,938,056'System and method for restoring a file system from backups in the presence of deletions'2005 6,925,515'Producer/consumer locking system for efficient replication of file data'2005 6,917,942'System for dynamically evaluating locks in a distributed data storage system'2005 6,792,424'System and method for managing authentication and coherency in a storage area network'2004 6,775,703'Lease based safety protocol for distributed system with multiple networks'2004 6,651,147'Data placement and allocation using virtual contiguity'2003 6,571,276'System for managing asset access in a distributed storage system'2003 6,510,505'System and method for allocating storage space using bit-parallel search of bitmap'2003 6,405,315'Decentralized remotely encrypted file system'2002 6,374,250'System and method for differential compression of data from a plurality of binary sources'2002 6,088,694'Continuous availability and efficient backup for externally referenced objects'2000 6,018,747'Method for generating and reconstructing in-place delta files'2000 5,931,947'Secure array of remotely encrypted storage devices'1999

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1999–2006Patents assigned to IBM (15)· patent assignee history

1999–2005Based in Sunnyvale, CA, US· patent location history

2005–2006Based in Washington, DC, US· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
IBM	15	1999–2006

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Sunnyvale, California, US	12	1999–2005
Washington, DC, US	3	2005–2006