Patents by Inventor James Cihla

James Cihla 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).

  • Performance Improvement For Storage Devices
    Publication number: 20240168837
    Abstract: Improving storage device performance including initiating, on a storage device, execution of a rehabilitative action from a set of rehabilitative actions that can be performed on the storage device; determining that the storage device is operating outside of a defined range of expected operating parameters after the rehabilitative action has been executed; and initiating execution of a higher level rehabilitative action responsive to determining that the higher level rehabilitative action exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: ANDREW BERNAT, JAMES CIHLA, JUNGKEUN KIM, IRIS MCLEARY, DAMIAN YURZOLA
  • Addressing storage device performance
    Patent number: 11914455
    Abstract: Improving storage device performance including initiating, on a storage device, execution of a rehabilitative action from a set of rehabilitative actions that can be performed on the storage device; determining that the storage device is operating outside of a defined range of expected operating parameters after the rehabilitative action has been executed; and initiating execution of a higher level rehabilitative action responsive to determining that the higher level rehabilitative action exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Bernat, James Cihla, Jungkeun Kim, Iris Mcleary, Damian Yurzola
  • Addressing Storage Device Performance
    Publication number: 20230004456
    Abstract: Improving storage device performance including initiating, on a storage device, execution of a rehabilitative action from a set of rehabilitative actions that can be performed on the storage device; determining that the storage device is operating outside of a defined range of expected operating parameters after the rehabilitative action has been executed; and initiating execution of a higher level rehabilitative action responsive to determining that the higher level rehabilitative action exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: ANDREW BERNAT, JAMES CIHLA, JUNGKEUN KIM, IRIS MCLEARY, DAMIAN YURZOLA
  • Performing rehabilitative actions on storage devices
    Patent number: 11449375
    Abstract: Rehabilitating storage devices in a storage array that includes a plurality of storage devices, including: receiving a request to rehabilitate a storage device that is operating outside of a defined range of expected operating parameters; selecting, from a hierarchy of rehabilitative actions that can be performed on the storage device, a rehabilitative action to perform on a storage device in dependence upon information describing a number of times that one or more of the rehabilitative actions have been performed on the storage device; and initiating execution of the selected rehabilitative action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Bernat, James Cihla, Jungkeun Kim, Iris Mcleary, Damian Yurzola
  • Self-healing storage devices
    Patent number: 10963326
    Abstract: Rehabilitating storage devices in a storage array that includes a plurality of storage devices, including: receiving a request to rehabilitate a storage device that is operating outside of a defined range of expected operating parameters; selecting, from a hierarchy of rehabilitative actions that can be performed on the storage device, a rehabilitative action to perform on a storage device in dependence upon information describing a number of times that one or more of the rehabilitative actions have been performed on the storage device; and initiating execution of the selected rehabilitative action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Bernat, James Cihla, Jungkeun Kim, Iris McLeary, Damian Yurzola
  • Rehabilitating storage devices in a storage array that includes a plurality of storage devices
    Patent number: 10235229
    Abstract: Rehabilitating storage devices in a storage array that includes a plurality of storage devices, including: receiving a request to rehabilitate a storage device that is operating outside of a defined range of expected operating parameters; selecting, from a hierarchy of rehabilitative actions that can be performed on the storage device, a rehabilitative action to perform on a storage device in dependence upon information describing a number of times that one or more of the rehabilitative actions have been performed on the storage device; and initiating execution of the selected rehabilitative action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Bernat, James Cihla, Jungkeun Kim, Iris McLeary, Damian Yurzola