Patents by Inventor Gordon D. Hutchinson

Gordon D. Hutchinson 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).

  • Patent number: 10223221
    Abstract: A method for recovering data in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes implementing a RAID in a storage architecture comprising a RAID controller and a storage enclosure containing a set of storage drives belonging to the RAID. The RAID controller is configured to detect a failure condition associated with at least one of the storage drives in the set. In response to detecting the failure condition, the RAID controller sends, to the storage enclosure, an instruction to copy data from a first storage drive in the set to a second storage drive in the set as part of a RAID rebuild process. The storage enclosure receives the instruction and executes it without substantially involving the RAID controller in the copy process. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel S. Critchley, Gordon D. Hutchinson, Gareth P. Jones, Jonathan W. Short
  • Patent number: 7509381
    Abstract: A method of adaptive email in-basket ordering which applies weightings to various e-mail attributes in order to sort the in-box. A plurality of unopened emails is presented. An order in which at least one email is opened is determined. At least one attribute is determined for the at least one email. A weight is generated by comparing the value of the at least one attribute with a value of at least one corresponding attribute of at least one unopened email. The weight is applied to the value of the at least one attribute. A pair-wise ordering is determined according to weighted attribute values of a first unopened email and a second unopened email. Unopened emails are sorted according to the pair-wise ordering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon D. Hutchinson, Joseph R. Winchester