Patents by Inventor Robert William SCHWENZ

Robert William SCHWENZ 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).

  • System and method for catalog service
    Patent number: 11663241
    Abstract: An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor having programmed instructions to receive, from a client, a request to create a catalog item corresponding to a file, determine an identifier of a cluster manager associated with a cluster having available capacity, send, to the cluster manager, a source location of the catalog item, and cause the cluster manager to store the catalog item from the source location in the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.
    Inventors: Chaitanya Sudhir Karlekar, Constantine Kousoulis, Robert William Schwenz, Shashank Bipin Kumar, Suraj Nagaraja Kasi
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CATALOG SERVICE
    Publication number: 20210124765
    Abstract: An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor having programmed instructions to receive, from a client, a request to create a catalog item corresponding to a file, determine an identifier of a cluster manager associated with a cluster having available capacity, send, to the cluster manager, a source location of the catalog item, and cause the cluster manager to store the catalog item from the source location in the cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.
    Inventors: Chaitanya Sudhir Karlekar, Constantine Kousoulis, Robert William Schwenz, Shashank Bipin Kumar, Suraj Nagaraja Kasi
  • Mechanism for performing rolling upgrades in a networked virtualization environment
    Patent number: 9740472
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mechanism for performing rolling updates in a networked virtualization environment for storage management. The approach is applicable to any resource in the system, including controller VMs, hypervisors, and storage devices. Integrated processing may be performed across multiple types of upgrades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: NUTANIX, INC.
    Inventors: Aroosh Sohi, Robert William Schwenz, Miao Cui, Akshay Khole
  • Mechanism for performing rolling updates with data unavailability check in a networked virtualization environment for storage management
    Patent number: 9733958
    Abstract: A method for performing rolling updates with data unavailability checks in a networked virtualization environment for storage management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.
    Inventors: Miao Cui, Robert William Schwenz
  • MECHANISM FOR PERFORMING ROLLING UPDATES WITH DATA UNAVAILABILITY CHECK IN A NETWORKED VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT FOR STORAGE MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20160203008
    Abstract: A method for performing rolling updates with data unavailability checks in a networked virtualization environment for storage management.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.
    Inventors: Miao CUI, Robert William SCHWENZ