Oracle Assigned Patent

Oracle International, Redwood Shores, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,548,948) developed by Frederick S. Glover, Hollis, NH, for “methods and apparatus for a fine grained file storage system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for maintaining access information for individual data portions within a file. Generally, the system disclosed herein provides a method for procuring and maintaining various access information specific to data portions within a file. Thus, by providing specific access information to a file data portion the access manager allows a process to perform processing on the individual file data portion. Consequently, the process can operate more efficiently since it is no longer required to access and perform processing on the entire file.”

The patent application was filed on April 11, 2006 (11/401,697).