Patents by Inventor Rune Willy Ludvig

Rune Willy Ludvig 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).

  • Method, system, and program for handling a failover to a remote storage location
    Patent number: 7043665
    Abstract: Provided are a method, program, and system for managing data. A mirror policy is processed indicating volumes in a first storage system to mirror to volumes in a second storage system and volumes in the second storage system to mirror to volumes in a third storage system, wherein the third storage system is at a first geographical location remote with respect to a second geographical location including the first and second storage systems. A failure is detected of the first and second storage systems at the first geographical location. Automatic reconfiguration is made to network resources directing I/O requests to volumes in the first storage system to direct I/O requests to volumes in the third storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Frederic Kern, David B. Petersen, Rune Willy Ludvig
  • Method, system, and program for handling a failover to a remote storage location
    Publication number: 20040260899
    Abstract: Provided are a method, program, and system for managing data. A mirror policy is processed indicating volumes in a first storage system to mirror to volumes in a second storage system and volumes in the second storage system to mirror to volumes in a third storage system, wherein the third storage system is at a first geographical location remote with respect to a second geographical location including the first and second storage systems. A failure is detected of the first and second storage systems at the first geographical location. Automatic reconfiguration is made to network resources directing I/O requests to volumes in the first storage system to direct I/O requests to volumes in the third storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Robert Frederic Kern, David B. Petersen, Rune Willy Ludvig