Patents by Inventor Heiko Sick

Heiko Sick 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).

  • Elastic file system management in storage cloud environments
    Patent number: 9740436
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for elastic data storage management in a storage network. A data storage system manager in the data processing system monitors remaining free space of a plurality of data storage systems. The data storage system manager determines a rate of change of remaining free space of each data storage system. Responsive to determining that the remaining free space or rate of change of remaining free space of at least one data storage exceeds a threshold, the data storage system manager determines an amount to expand or shrink a given data storage system in the storage network. The data storage system manager configures data storage allocation to expand or shrink the given data storage system by the determined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Uwe Fiebrich-Kandler, Erik Rueger, Lance W. Russell, Heiko Sick
  • Elastic File System Management in Storage Cloud Environments
    Publication number: 20160139835
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for elastic data storage management in a storage network. A data storage system manager in the data processing system monitors remaining free space of a plurality of data storage systems. The data storage system manager determines a rate of change of remaining free space of each data storage system. Responsive to determining that the remaining free space or rate of change of remaining free space of at least one data storage exceeds a threshold, the data storage system manager determines an amount to expand or shrink a given data storage system in the storage network. The data storage system manager configures data storage allocation to expand or shrink the given data storage system by the determined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Uwe Fiebrich-Kandler, Erik Rueger, Lance W. Russell, Heiko Sick