# Peter McInerney — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Peter McInerney has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Computers Safely Resume Interrupted Data Backups](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8307004/amazon-dynamodb) — granted 2012
  A method for computers to pause a large data backup and resume exactly where they left off without restarting the entire process from scratch.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/peter-mcinerney

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