Patents by Inventor Matthew Seitz

Matthew Seitz 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: 8539081
    Abstract: A NAS (Network Attaches Storage) switch authenticates a client on multiple file servers for proxy services. The NAS switch enables proxy services by successively authenticating the client on the file servers using referrals. The NAS switch further comprises a connection manager to establish connections to the client and the file servers, a referral manager to redirect the client for successive authentications, and a transaction manager to perform data transfers with the file servers on behalf of the client. The system components support DFS (Distributed File System), and communicate using a protocol dialect that supports referral mechanisms such as NFSv4 (Network File Server version 4) or CIFS (Common Internet File System). The transaction manager also performs a protocol dialect translation service when the connection manager negotiates one protocol dialect with the client, and a different protocol dialect with the file server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Neopath Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Iyengar, Thomas K. Wong, Panagiotis Tsirigotis, Rajeev Chawla, Zuwei Liu, Matthew Seitz, Richard A. Simpkins
  • Patent number: 8195627
    Abstract: The present invention provides selective migration in a storage network in accordance with a policy. The policy can include rules that establish which objects are migrated from a source file server to a destination file server based on file attributes (e.g., file type, file size, last access time, frequency of access). For example, large multimedia files that consume I/O bandwidth on expensive or critical file servers, without adding much value to enterprise productivity, can be migrated to a commodity or less critical file server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Neopath Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Chi Ming Wong, Thomas K. Wong, Panagiotis Tsirigotis, Anand Iyengar, Rajeev Chawla, Yu Cheong Chan, Zuwei Liu, Matthew Seitz, Richard A. Simpkins, Geetha Srikantan, Gaurav Gupta
  • Patent number: 8131689
    Abstract: A system and method for performing policy-based storage management using data related to access frequency and file attribute accumulation. A switch device provides transparency for transactions between a client and a storage network. The transparency allows objects (e.g., files or directories) to be moved (e.g., migrated) on the storage network without affecting a reference to the object used by the client (e.g., a file handle). A monitoring module generates accumulation data associated with the transactions for use in policy-based management. The accumulation data can describe uses of the file such as how often certain files are accessed, modifications to files such as creations of new directories or files, and other uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Inventors: Panagiotis Tsirigotis, Geetha Srikantan, Thomas K. Wong, Chi Ming Wong, Anand Iyengar, Rajeev Chawla, Richard Simpkins, Zuwei Liu, Gaurav Gupta, Matthew Seitz, Yu Cheong Chan
  • Publication number: 20070136308
    Abstract: A system and method for performing policy-based storage management using data related to access frequency and file attribute accumulation. A switch device provides transparency for transactions between a client and a storage network. The transparency allows objects (e.g., files or directories) to be moved (e.g., migrated) on the storage network without affecting a reference to the object used by the client (e.g., a file handle). A monitoring module generates accumulation data associated with the transactions for use in policy-based management. The accumulation data can describe uses of the file such as how often certain files are accessed, modifications to files such as creations of new directories or files, and other uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Panagiotis Tsirigotis, Geetha Srikantan, Thomas Wong, Chi Wong, Anand Iyengar, Rajeev Chawla, Richard Simpkins, Zuwei Liu, Gaurav Gupta, Matthew Seitz, Yu Chan
  • Publication number: 20060080371
    Abstract: The present invention provides selective migration in a storage network in accordance with a policy. The policy can include rules that establish which objects are migrated from a source file server to a destination file server based on file attributes (e.g., file type, file size, last access time, frequency of access). For example, large multimedia files that consume I/O bandwidth on expensive or critical file servers, without adding much value to enterprise productivity, can be migrated to a commodity or less critical file server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: Chi Wong, Thomas Wong, Panagiotis Tsirigotis, Anand Iyengar, Rajeev Chawla, Yu Chan, Zuqei Liu, Matthew Seitz, Richard Simpkins, Geetha Srikantan, Gaurav Gupta
  • Publication number: 20050125503
    Abstract: A NAS (Network Attaches Storage) switch authenticates a client on multiple file servers for proxy services. The NAS switch enables proxy services by successively authenticating the client on the file servers using referrals. The NAS switch further comprises a connection manager to establish connections to the client and the file servers, a referral manager to redirect the client for successive authentications, and a transaction manager to perform data transfers with the file servers on behalf of the client. The system components support DFS (Distributed File System), and communicate using a protocol dialect that supports referral mechanisms such as NFSv4 (Network File Server version 4) or CIFS (Common Internet File System). The transaction manager also performs a protocol dialect translation service when the connection manager negotiates one protocol dialect with the client, and a different protocol dialect with the file server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Anand Iyengar, Thomas Wong, Panagiotis Tsirigotis, Rajeev Chawla, Zuwei Liu, Matthew Seitz, Richard Simpkins