Patents by Inventor Dieter Fiems

Dieter Fiems has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Request throttling in distributed storage systems
    Patent number: 11531493
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes an example system that has a request throttling manager that is configured to receive a first file data request, queue the first file data request in a first request queue, and process the first file data request based on the first token bucket. The first token bucket includes a sufficient first quantity of first tokens to process the first file data request. The system further includes a storage manager configured to access one or more storage nodes of a plurality of storage nodes of a distributed storage system in response to the first file data request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Arne Vansteenkiste, Sander De Dycker, Wim De Wispelaere, Joris Walraevens, Dieter Fiems, Willem Mélange, Apoorv Saxena
  • Request Throttling in Distributed Storage Systems
    Publication number: 20210191650
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes an example system that has a request throttling manager that is configured to receive a first file data request, queue the first file data request in a first request queue, and process the first file data request based on the first token bucket. The first token bucket includes a sufficient first quantity of first tokens to process the first file data request. The system further includes a storage manager configured to access one or more storage nodes of a plurality of storage nodes of a distributed storage system in response to the first file data request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Arne Vansteenkiste, Sander De Dycker, Wim De Wispelaere, Joris Walraevens, Dieter Fiems, Willem Mélange, Apoorv Saxena