Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Fukuguchi

Hitoshi Fukuguchi 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: 8990523
    Abstract: A storage apparatus has a controller for controlling data input to and output from a plurality of storage devices composed of flash memories and the controller manages the number of times data are written to each storage device on the basis of each storage device, wherein when the controller receives a write command from an access requestor and if any of the storage devices is a storage device whose number of times of data write exceeds a threshold value, the controller determines that the data write mode is an intensive mode, selects the storage device, whose number of times of data write exceeds the threshold value, as a specified storage device and writes data, which are to be processed for the write command, intensively to the selected specified storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuri Nozaki, Masanobu Ikeda, Hitoshi Fukuguchi
  • Publication number: 20150067240
    Abstract: A storage apparatus has a controller for controlling data input to and output from a plurality of storage devices composed of flash memories and the controller manages the number of times data are written to each storage device on the basis of each storage device, wherein when the controller receives a write command from an access requestor and if any of the storage devices is a storage device whose number of times of data write exceeds a threshold value, the controller determines that the data write mode is an intensive mode, selects the storage device, whose number of times of data write exceeds the threshold value, as a specified storage device and writes data, which are to be processed for the write command, intensively to the selected specified storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuri Nozaki, Masanobu Ikeda, Hitoshi Fukuguchi
  • Patent number: 8694602
    Abstract: Data conversion processing for converting access target data into data of a different block size is executed without degradation of data input/output processing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Fukuguchi, Masahide Kawarasaki, Akira Nishimoto
  • Publication number: 20120259944
    Abstract: Data conversion processing for converting access target data into data of a different block size is executed without degradation of data input/output processing performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Hitoshi Fukuguchi, Masahide Kawarasaki, Akira Nishimoto
  • Patent number: 8161235
    Abstract: This storage system includes a server management unit for managing in a server a maximum overwrite count and an overwrite count for overwriting the overwrite data in a disk cache, a controller cache for temporarily storing overwrite data sent from the server in the storage subsystem, a storage management unit for managing a maximum overwrite count and an overwrite count for overwriting overwrite data sent from the server in the controller cache so as to overwrite overwrite data sent from the controller cache in the hard disk drive according to the number of the maximum overwrite count, and an address management unit for managing the respective addresses of the disk cache, the controller cache and the hard disk drive storing the same file to be erased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Fukuguchi
  • Patent number: 7836265
    Abstract: In order to provide a storage system for enabling an administrator to manage information for each apparatus in a straightforward manner, the present invention comprises an acquiring section for acquiring a connection relationship of host apparatus, host management apparatus, storage apparatus, and storage management apparatus, a storage relationship for programs of every host apparatus, and a saving time period for saving data of every program, based on external operation, and a display control section for displaying the connection relationship and storage relationship acquired by the acquiring section on a display screen, and displaying the saved time period of every program on the same screen as the connection relationship and the storage relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Fukuguchi
  • Publication number: 20090100235
    Abstract: This storage system includes a server management unit for managing in a server a maximum overwrite count and an overwrite count for overwriting the overwrite data in a disk cache, a controller cache for temporarily storing overwrite data sent from the server in the storage subsystem, a storage management unit for managing a maximum overwrite count and an overwrite count for overwriting overwrite data sent from the server in the controller cache so as to overwrite overwrite data sent from the controller cache in the hard disk drive according to the number of the maximum overwrite count, and an address management unit for managing the respective addresses of the disk cache, the controller cache and the hard disk drive storing the same file to be erased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventor: Hitoshi FUKUGUCHI
  • Patent number: 7426624
    Abstract: A method for grouping a plurality of storage resources provided by a storage system into storage groups. Storage management software obtains storage resource configuration information set for each of a number of logical partitions in the storage system and groups the storage resources into storage groups such that the storage resource group configuration individually set for the logical partitions in the storage system matches the group configuration of the storage resources constituting the storage groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Fukuguchi, Kyosuke Achiwa, Masafumi Nozawa
  • Publication number: 20080133854
    Abstract: In order to provide a storage system for enabling an administrator to manage information for each apparatus in a straightforward manner, the present invention comprises an acquiring section for acquiring a connection relationship of host apparatus, host management apparatus, storage apparatus, and storage management apparatus, a storage relationship for programs every host apparatus, and a saving period for saving data every program, based on external operation, and a display control section for displaying the connection relationship and storage relationship acquired by the acquiring section on a display screen, and displaying the saved period every program on the same screen as the connection relationship and the storage relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventor: Hitoshi Fukuguchi
  • Publication number: 20060212673
    Abstract: A method for grouping a plurality of storage resources provided by a storage system into storage groups. Storage management software obtains storage resource configuration information set for each of a number of logical partitions in the storage system and groups the storage resources into storage groups such that the storage resource group configuration individually set for the logical partitions in the storage system matches the group configuration of the storage resources constituting the storage groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Hitoshi Fukuguchi, Kyosuke Achiwa, Masafumi Nozawa