Patents by Inventor Don Cawthorne

Don Cawthorne 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).

  • Architecture and addressing scheme for storage interconnect and emerging storage service providers
    Patent number: 6920153
    Abstract: A technique for enabling a shared storage provider (SSP) to provide shared data storage to a plurality of customers while providing greater privacy and security of each customer's data by implementing a virtual private (VP) addressing scheme is disclosed. The technique also allows a storage networking service carrier to provide connectivity between a plurality of customer storage networking sites, keeping each customer separate from each other. In one embodiment, the technique is realized by network architecture and a scheme to separate and virtualize storage traffic and stored data on a shared infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Donald R. Ellis, Don Cawthorne, Silvo J. Frank, Sylvain Demargerie, Chris Murton, Silvana Romagnino, R. Bruce Wallace
  • Architecture and addressing scheme for storage interconnect and emerging storage service providers
    Publication number: 20020010790
    Abstract: A technique for enabling a shared storage provider (SSP) to provide shared data storage to a plurality of customers while providing greater privacy and security of each customer's data by implementing a virtual private (VP) addressing scheme is disclosed. The technique also allows a storage networking service carrier to provide connectivity between a plurality of customer storage networking sites, keeping each customer separate from each other. In one embodiment, the technique is realized by network architecture and a scheme to separate and virtualize storage traffic and stored data on a shared infrastructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Donald R. Ellis, Don Cawthorne, Silvo J. Frank, Sylvain Demargerie, Chris Murton, Silvana Romagnino, R. Bruce Wallace