Patents by Inventor Richard A. McNeal

Richard A. McNeal 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).

  • Priority and bandwidth specification at mount time of NAS device volume
    Patent number: 8095675
    Abstract: A method for specifying input/output (I/O) settings for a virtual machine that includes specifying a bandwidth for the virtual machine, specifying a priority for the virtual machine, sending a mount request for a volume on a network attached storage (NAS) device by the virtual machine, where the bandwidth and priority are transmitted to the NAS device as part of the mount request, and receiving a mount handle by the virtual machine, where the mount handle is associated with the volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sunay Tripathi, Brian L. Wong, Richard A. McNeal
  • Priority and bandwidth specification at mount time of NAS device volume
    Publication number: 20080046610
    Abstract: A method for specifying input/output (I/O) settings for a virtual machine that includes specifying a bandwidth for the virtual machine, specifying a priority for the virtual machine, sending a mount request for a volume on a network attached storage (NAS) device by the virtual machine, where the bandwidth and priority are transmitted to the NAS device as part of the mount request, and receiving a mount handle by the virtual machine, where the mount handle is associated with the volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Sunay Tripathi, Brian L. Wong, Richard A. McNeal