SQL Sentry Assigned Patent

SQL Sentry, Inc., Huntersville, NC, has been assigned a patent (8,810,575) developed by Gregory Herbert Gonzalez, Huntersville, NC, and John Brooke Philpott, Charlotte, NC, for an “infographic disk activity interface and method for displaying relative saturation of a computer disk system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of a computer system, adapt the computer system to implement a method for displaying relative saturation of a computer disk system. The method includes visually displaying elements of the computer disk system in an infographic disk activity interface. The elements may include at least one of the group including at least one disk controller, at least one physical disk, at least one file, and at least one other files. The elements are visually linked using an arrangement of connectors defining respective data flow paths between the elements. Disk system activity along the data flow paths is visually indicated using static and/or dynamic infographic display elements.”

The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2008 (12/733,219).