Shaun Edwards

Title: Shaun Edwards and Scalable Cloud Backup.

Introduction

Shaun Edwards is an inventor associated with Edgewood, Washington, and EMC IP Holding Company LLC. His patent work addresses scalable cloud backup, a method for organizing and transferring file-system data to cloud storage.

Latest Patents

The provided information identifies one patent for Edwards: “Scalable Cloud Backup.” The invention describes a coordinator process that manages worker processes across nodes. These workers package file-system data into node-local upload objects, arranging file data at distinct block offsets and generating metadata tables that record file details and block locations.

The upload objects can then be sent to a cloud service provider. Metadata produced by individual workers can be combined into global tables describing the backed-up data. After an initial backup, a file-system snapshot service can identify changed blocks for incremental backup. Edwards is credited with 1 patent.

Career Highlights

Edwards’s listed patent reflects work on scalable backup architecture, distributed processing, metadata management, and incremental data protection. The approach is designed to support cloud backups while tracking where file data is stored and limiting subsequent backups to changed blocks.

Collaborations

The provided information names Nick Kirsch and Alex Pecoraro as Edwards’s coworkers. It does not specify their roles in the patent or describe particular collaborative contributions.

Conclusion

Shaun Edwards’s “Scalable Cloud Backup” patent describes a distributed approach to cloud data protection that combines coordinated uploads, detailed metadata, and incremental backup of changed file blocks.