Patents by Inventor Douglas Doucette

Douglas Doucette 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).

  • Publication number: 20230259460
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory machine-readable media, and computing devices that manage resources between multiple hosts coupled to dual-port solid-state disks (SSDs) are disclosed. With this technology, in-core conventional namespace (CNS) and zoned namespace (ZNS) mapping tables are synchronized by a host flash translation layer with on-disk CNS and ZNS mapping tables, respectively. An entry in one of the in-core CNS or ZNS mapping tables is identified based on whether a received storage operation is directed to a CNS or a ZNS of the dual-port SSD. The entry is further identified based on a logical address extracted from the storage operation. The storage operation is serviced using a translation in the identified entry for the logical address, when the storage operation is directed to the CNS, or a zone identifier in the identified entry for a zone of the ZNS, when the storage operation is directed to the ZNS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhijeet GOLE, Ratnesh Gupta, Douglas Doucette
  • Patent number: 11709780
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that manage resources between multiple hosts coupled to dual-port solid-state disks (SSDs) are disclosed. With this technology, in-core conventional namespace (CNS) and zoned namespace (ZNS) mapping tables are synchronized by a host flash translation layer with on-disk CNS and ZNS mapping tables, respectively. An entry in one of the in-core CNS or ZNS mapping tables is identified based on whether a received storage operation is directed to a CNS or a ZNS of the dual-port SSD. The entry is further identified based on a logical address extracted from the storage operation. The storage operation is serviced using a translation in the identified entry for the logical address, when the storage operation is directed to the CNS, or a zone identifier in the identified entry for a zone of the ZNS, when the storage operation is directed to the ZNS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Abhijeet Gole, Ratnesh Gupta, Douglas Doucette
  • Publication number: 20220292031
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that manage resources between multiple hosts coupled to dual-port solid-state disks (SSDs) are disclosed. With this technology, in-core conventional namespace (CNS) and zoned namespace (ZNS) mapping tables are synchronized by a host flash translation layer with on-disk CNS and ZNS mapping tables, respectively. An entry in one of the in-core CNS or ZNS mapping tables is identified based on whether a received storage operation is directed to a CNS or a ZNS of the dual-port SSD. The entry is further identified based on a logical address extracted from the storage operation. The storage operation is serviced using a translation in the identified entry for the logical address, when the storage operation is directed to the CNS, or a zone identifier in the identified entry for a zone of the ZNS, when the storage operation is directed to the ZNS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Abhijeet GOLE, Ratnesh Gupta, Douglas Doucette
  • Patent number: 11386015
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that manage resources between multiple hosts coupled to dual-port solid-state disks (SSDs) are disclosed. With this technology, in-core conventional namespace (CNS) and zoned namespace (ZNS) mapping tables are synchronized by a host flash translation layer with on-disk CNS and ZNS mapping tables, respectively. An entry in one of the in-core CNS or ZNS mapping tables is identified based on whether a received storage operation is directed to a CNS or a ZNS of the dual-port SSD. The entry is further identified based on a logical address extracted from the storage operation. The storage operation is serviced using a translation in the identified entry for the logical address, when the storage operation is directed to the CNS, or a zone identifier in the identified entry for a zone of the ZNS, when the storage operation is directed to the ZNS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Abhijeet Gole, Ratnesh Gupta, Douglas Doucette
  • Publication number: 20210334216
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that manage resources between multiple hosts coupled to dual-port solid-state disks (SSDs) are disclosed. With this technology, in-core conventional namespace (CNS) and zoned namespace (ZNS) mapping tables are synchronized by a host flash translation layer with on-disk CNS and ZNS mapping tables, respectively. An entry in one of the in-core CNS or ZNS mapping tables is identified based on whether a received storage operation is directed to a CNS or a ZNS of the dual-port SSD. The entry is further identified based on a logical address extracted from the storage operation. The storage operation is serviced using a translation in the identified entry for the logical address, when the storage operation is directed to the CNS, or a zone identifier in the identified entry for a zone of the ZNS, when the storage operation is directed to the ZNS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Abhijeet Gole, Ratnesh Gupta, Douglas Doucette
  • Publication number: 20080028011
    Abstract: A file system determines the relative vacancy of a collection of storage blocks, i.e., an “allocation area”. This is accomplished by recording an array of numbers, each of which describes the vacancy of a collection of storage blocks. The file system examines these numbers when attempting to record file blocks in relatively contiguous areas on a storage medium, such as a disk. When a request to write to disk occurs, the system determines the average vacancy of all of the allocation areas and queries the allocation areas for individual vacancy rates. The system preferably writes file blocks to the allocation areas that are above a threshold related to the average storage block vacancy of the file system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: Network Appliance, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Doucette, Blake Lewis, John Edwards
  • Publication number: 20060271734
    Abstract: A storage operating system is configured to assign volume block numbers (VBNs) to a volume. The system has a plurality of disks, and each disk of the plurality of disks is assigned disk block numbers (DBNs). A raidmap is configured to map the VBNs to the DBNs of the plurality of physical disks, the mapping for a particular disk stored in a disk label for the particular disk. The disk label for the particular disk is then written to the particular disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventors: Stephen Strange, Scott Schoenthal, Douglas Doucette, Srinivasan Viswanathan
  • Publication number: 20060224843
    Abstract: A file system migrates a traditional volume to a virtual volume without data copying. In an embodiment, a traditional volume index node is selected for migration. The traditional volume index node is converted to a virtual volume index node. In one embodiment, the virtual volume index node provides both physical address information and virtual address information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventors: Sriram Rao, John Edwards, Douglas Doucette, Cheryl Thompson
  • Publication number: 20060085471
    Abstract: A system and method for reclaims unused space from a thinly provision data container served by a storage system. A host-side agent detects blocks of the data container that may be freed and sends a novel Punch Hole command to the storage system associated with the data container. The storage system allocates the appropriate blocks in response to the Punch Hole command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Inventors: Vijayan Rajan, David Bolen, Douglas Doucette