Patents by Inventor Miho Imazaki

Miho Imazaki 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: 11720264
    Abstract: One or more storage systems are connected to one or more storage boxes comprising multiple storage devices. Multiple storage areas provided by one or more storage boxes include an allocated area, which is a storage area that is allocated to a virtual volume, and an empty area, which is a storage area that is not allocated to any logical volume. Multiple owner rights corresponding to multiple storage areas are set in one or more storage systems. A storage system having an empty area owner right changes an empty area to the allocated area by allocating the empty area. In a case where a configuration change (a relative change in the number of storage boxes with respect to the number of storage systems) is performed, a first storage system that exists after the configuration change sets, in the first storage system, either more or fewer owner rights than the owner rights, which have been allocated to the first storage system before the configuration change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Yamamoto, Miho Imazaki
  • Publication number: 20210263659
    Abstract: One or more storage systems are connected to one or more storage boxes comprising multiple storage devices. Multiple storage areas provided by one or more storage boxes include an allocated area, which is a storage area that is allocated to a virtual volume, and an empty area, which is a storage area that is not allocated to any logical volume. Multiple owner rights corresponding to multiple storage areas are set in one or more storage systems. A storage system having an empty area owner right changes an empty area to the allocated area by allocating the empty area. In a case where a configuration change (a relative change in the number of storage boxes with respect to the number of storage systems) is performed, a first storage system that exists after the configuration change sets, in the first storage system, either more or fewer owner rights than the owner rights, which have been allocated to the first storage system before the configuration change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira YAMAMOTO, Miho IMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11003368
    Abstract: One or more storage systems are connected to one or more storage boxes comprising multiple storage devices. Multiple storage areas provided by one or more storage boxes include an allocated area, which is a storage area that is allocated to a virtual volume, and an empty area, which is a storage area that is not allocated to any logical volume. Multiple owner rights corresponding to multiple storage areas are set in one or more storage systems. A storage system having an empty area owner right changes an empty area to the allocated area by allocating the empty area. In a case where a configuration change (a relative change in the number of storage boxes with respect to the number of storage systems) is performed, a first storage system that exists after the configuration change sets, in the first storage system, either more or fewer owner rights than the owner rights, which have been allocated to the first storage system before the configuration change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yamamoto, Miho Imazaki
  • Patent number: 10866749
    Abstract: One or more storage systems are connected to one or more storage boxes comprising multiple storage devices. Multiple storage areas provided by one or more storage boxes include an allocated area, which is a storage area that is allocated to a virtual volume, and an empty area, which is a storage area that is not allocated to any logical volume. Multiple owner rights corresponding to multiple storage areas are set in one or more storage systems. A storage system having an empty area owner right changes an empty area to the allocated area by allocating the empty area. In a case where a configuration change (a relative change in the number of storage boxes with respect to the number of storage systems) is performed, a first storage system that exists after the configuration change sets, in the first storage system, either more or fewer owner rights than the owner rights, which have been allocated to the first storage system before the configuration change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yamamoto, Miho Imazaki
  • Patent number: 10853268
    Abstract: An information processing system including a processor, a memory, and a plurality of drives, wherein when a write request of new data is received, the processor stores the new data in the memory, transmits a response for the write request to a transmission source of the write request, reads old data updated by the new data from a first drive of the plurality of drives and old parity related to the old data from a second drive of the plurality of drives according to transmission of the response, store the old data and the old parity in the memory, generates new parity related to the new data from the new data, the old data, and the old parity stored in the memory, and stores the new data in the first drive to store the new parity in the second drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Miho Imazaki, Akira Yamamoto, Tomohiro Yoshihara, Kohei Tatara
  • Publication number: 20200210083
    Abstract: One or more storage systems are connected to one or more storage boxes comprising multiple storage devices. Multiple storage areas provided by one or more storage boxes include an allocated area, which is a storage area that is allocated to a virtual volume, and an empty area, which is a storage area that is not allocated to any logical volume. Multiple owner rights corresponding to multiple storage areas are set in one or more storage systems. A storage system having an empty area owner right changes an empty area to the allocated area by allocating the empty area. In a case where a configuration change (a relative change in the number of storage boxes with respect to the number of storage systems) is performed, a first storage system that exists after the configuration change sets, in the first storage system, either more or fewer owner rights than the owner rights, which have been allocated to the first storage system before the configuration change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira YAMAMOTO, Miho IMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20200210082
    Abstract: One or more storage systems are connected to one or more storage boxes comprising multiple storage devices. Multiple storage areas provided by one or more storage boxes include an allocated area, which is a storage area that is allocated to a virtual volume, and an empty area, which is a storage area that is not allocated to any logical volume. Multiple owner rights corresponding to multiple storage areas are set in one or more storage systems. A storage system having an empty area owner right changes an empty area to the allocated area by allocating the empty area. In a case where a configuration change (a relative change in the number of storage boxes with respect to the number of storage systems) is performed, a first storage system that exists after the configuration change sets, in the first storage system, either more or fewer owner rights than the owner rights, which have been allocated to the first storage system before the configuration change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira YAMAMOTO, Miho IMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 10599351
    Abstract: One or more storage systems are connected to one or more storage boxes comprising multiple storage devices. Multiple storage areas provided by one or more storage boxes include an allocated area, which is a storage area that is allocated to a virtual volume, and an empty area, which is a storage area that is not allocated to any logical volume. Multiple owner rights corresponding to multiple storage areas are set in one or more storage systems. A storage system having an empty area owner right changes an empty area to the allocated area by allocating the empty area. In a case where a configuration change (a relative change in the number of storage boxes with respect to the number of storage systems) is performed, a first storage system that exists after the configuration change sets, in the first storage system, either more or fewer owner rights than the owner rights, which have been allocated to the first storage system before the configuration change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yamamoto, Miho Imazaki
  • Patent number: 10496294
    Abstract: An instruction to associate a second logical volume with a second virtual storage, which is a migration destination of a first virtual storage that provides a first logical volume, is transmitted. The first virtual storage is a virtual storage to which a virtual resource provided by a virtual managing unit is allocated. A copy instruction, which is an instruction to copy data from either one of the first logical volume and a copy source logical volume of the first logical volume to the second logical volume is transmitted. When copy completion, which is completion of the data copy to the second logical volume, is detected, an erasing instruction, which is an instruction to erase the first virtual storage, is transmitted to the virtual managing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Miho Imazaki, Masakuni Agetsuma, Akira Yamamoto, Akira Deguchi
  • Patent number: 10310758
    Abstract: A second virtual volume having a plurality of second virtual areas is a clone of a first virtual volume having a plurality of first virtual areas. A first real area is allocated from a pool of real areas and based on storage devices to the first virtual volume. A storage controller allocates a second real area to the second virtual area before a write occurs in the second virtual area corresponding to the first virtual area to which the first real area is allocated. A physical area is allocated to a logical area corresponding to the first real area in each storage device, and data based on user data stored in the first real area is stored in the physical area. Each storage device allocates the physical area allocated to the logical area corresponding to the first real area to a logical area corresponding to the second real area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Miho Imazaki, Norio Simozono, Junji Ogawa, Tomohiro Yoshihara, Akira Yamamoto, Hiroaki Akutsu
  • Publication number: 20190012270
    Abstract: An information processing system including a processor, a memory, and a plurality of drives, wherein when a write request of new data is received, the processor stores the new data in the memory, transmits a response for the write request to a transmission source of the write request, reads old data updated by the new data from a first drive of the plurality of drives and old parity related to the old data from a second drive of the plurality of drives according to transmission of the response, store the old data and the old parity in the memory, generates new parity related to the new data from the new data, the old data, and the old parity stored in the memory, and stores the new data in the first drive to store the new parity in the second drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Miho IMAZAKI, Akira YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro YOSHIHARA, Kohei TATARA
  • Patent number: 10067882
    Abstract: A storage system manages correspondence relationships between physical addresses and logical addresses inside a storage device, as well as logical spaces provided by a plurality of storage devices, and when a determination is made as to whether first data and second data are stored in the same storage device in a case in which the first data and the second data are exchanged inside a logical space, and the determination is found to be affirmative, the storage device replaces the logical address corresponding to the first data with the logical address corresponding to the second data without changing the physical address of the physical area in which the first data is stored and the physical address of the physical area in which the second data is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Miho Imazaki, Akira Yamamoto, Yusuke Nonaka, Tomohiro Yoshihara, Shunji Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20180121112
    Abstract: An instruction to associate a second logical volume with a second virtual storage, which is a migration destination of a first virtual storage that provides a first logical volume, is transmitted. The first virtual storage is a virtual storage to which a virtual resource provided by a virtual managing unit is allocated. A copy instruction, which is an instruction to copy data from either one of the first logical volume and a copy source logical volume of the first logical volume to the second logical volume is transmitted. When copy completion, which is completion of the data copy to the second logical volume, is detected, an erasing instruction, which is an instruction to erase the first virtual storage, is transmitted to the virtual managing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Miho IMAZAKI, Masakuni AGETSUMA, Akira YAMAMOTO, Akira DEGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180004676
    Abstract: A storage system manages correspondence relationships between physical addresses and logical addresses inside a storage device, as well as logical spaces provided by a plurality of storage devices, and when a determination is made as to whether first data and second data are stored in the same storage device in a case in which the first data and the second data are exchanged inside a logical space, and the determination is found to be affirmative, the storage device replaces the logical address corresponding to the first data with the logical address corresponding to the second data without changing the physical address of the physical area in which the first data is stored and the physical address of the physical area in which the second data is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Miho IMAZAKI, Akira YAMAMOTO, Yusuke NONAKA, Tomohiro YOSHIHARA, Shunji KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170075615
    Abstract: A second virtual volume having a plurality of second virtual areas is a clone of a first virtual volume having a plurality of first virtual areas. A first real area is allocated from a pool of real areas and based on storage devices to the first virtual volume. A storage controller allocates a second real area to the second virtual area before a write occurs in the second virtual area corresponding to the first virtual area to which the first real area is allocated. A physical area is allocated to a logical area corresponding to the first real area in each storage device, and data based on user data stored in the first real area is stored in the physical area. Each storage device allocates the physical area allocated to the logical area corresponding to the first real area to a logical area corresponding to the second real area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Miho IMAZAKI, Norio SIMOZONO, Junji OGAWA, Tomohiro YOSHIHARA, Akira YAMAMOTO, Hiroaki AKUTSU
  • Patent number: 9361033
    Abstract: A shared device unit, which comprises a storage device, is coupled to a plurality of storage systems. The shared device unit provides a plurality of storage areas, which are based on the storage device, to the plurality of storage systems. Each storage system stores allocation management information which comprises an ID of a storage area provided to thereof among the plurality of storage areas, and provides the storage area corresponded to the ID included in the allocation management information to the host computer coupled thereto among the plurality of host computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Miho Imazaki, Shigeo Homma, Hiroaki Akutsu, Yoshiaki Eguchi, Akira Yamamoto, Junji Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20160117127
    Abstract: One or more storage systems are connected to one or more storage boxes comprising multiple storage devices. Multiple storage areas provided by one or more storage boxes include an allocated area, which is a storage area that is allocated to a virtual volume, and an empty area, which is a storage area that is not allocated to any logical volume. Multiple owner rights corresponding to multiple storage areas are set in one or more storage systems. A storage system having an empty area owner right changes an empty area to the allocated area by allocating the empty area. In a case where a configuration change (a relative change in the number of storage boxes with respect to the number of storage systems) is performed, a first storage system that exists after the configuration change sets, in the first storage system, either more or fewer owner rights than the owner rights, which have been allocated to the first storage system before the configuration change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira YAMAMOTO, Miho IMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 9250809
    Abstract: One or more storage systems are connected to one or more storage boxes comprising multiple storage devices. Multiple storage areas provided by one or more storage boxes include an allocated area, which is a storage area that is allocated to a virtual volume, and an empty area, which is a storage area that is not allocated to any logical volume. Multiple owner rights corresponding to multiple storage areas are set in one or more storage systems. A storage system having an empty area owner right changes an empty area to the allocated area by allocating the empty area. In a case where a configuration change (a relative change in the number of storage boxes with respect to the number of storage systems) is performed, a first storage system that exists after the configuration change sets, in the first storage system, either more or fewer owner rights than the owner rights, which have been allocated to the first storage system before the configuration change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Yamamoto, Miho Imazaki
  • Publication number: 20150186063
    Abstract: A shared device unit, which comprises a storage device, is coupled to a plurality of storage systems. The shared device unit provides a plurality of storage areas, which are based on the storage device, to the plurality of storage systems. Each storage system stores allocation management information which comprises an ID of a storage area provided to thereof among the plurality of storage areas, and provides the storage area corresponded to the ID included in the allocation management information to the host computer coupled thereto among the plurality of host computers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Miho Imazaki, Shigeo Homma, Hiroaki Akutsu, Yoshiaki Eguchi, Akira Yamamoto, Junji Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20150127854
    Abstract: One or more storage systems are connected to one or more storage boxes comprising multiple storage devices. Multiple storage areas provided by one or more storage boxes include an allocated area, which is a storage area that is allocated to a virtual volume, and an empty area, which is a storage area that is not allocated to any logical volume. Multiple owner rights corresponding to multiple storage areas are set in one or more storage systems. A storage system having an empty area owner right changes an empty area to the allocated area by allocating the empty area. In a case where a configuration change (a relative change in the number of storage boxes with respect to the number of storage systems) is performed, a first storage system that exists after the configuration change sets, in the first storage system, either more or fewer owner rights than the owner rights, which have been allocated to the first storage system before the configuration change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: AKIRA Yamamoto, Miho Imazaki