Patents by Inventor Takato Kusama
Takato Kusama 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).
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Patent number: 7415490Abstract: In a file system in which data is distributively stored on a plurality of volumes in compliance with file storage requests from business applications, the present invention calculates reliability requirements or performance requirements which represent storage requirements for the storage of individual files requested for storage, selects an actual file storage destination volume in accordance with the reliability characteristics or performance characteristics of each volume, and stores file data on the selected storage destination volume. Since the storage requirements are calculated to select a storage destination volume for each file, data storage destination optimization can be achieved on an individual file basis.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2006Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kei Takeda, Takato Kusama
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Publication number: 20080098110Abstract: A performance information display method using a computer, includes the steps, in the computer, of reading out information data of a storage device previously stored in a storage device and information data of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device, displaying an identifier of the storage device and identifiers of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device on a screen on the basis of the information data read out, accepting a command to select the displayed identifier of the storage device, and displaying performance information data of the devices utilizing the selected storage device in association on the basis of the accepted command and the information data read out.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Kei Takeda, Takato Kusama
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Patent number: 7346532Abstract: A workflow system controls work which includes a plurality of works. A stagnated work in a stagnation state is grasped, and processing priorities of works having a relation to the stagnated work are established in accordance with the relation. Particularly, a processing priority of a work, of which the processing progress is influenced due to the stagnated work in the stagnation state, is established to be lower.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2002Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takato Kusama, Nobuo Beniyama, Atsuhito Suzuki
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Patent number: 7310701Abstract: A performance information display method using a computer, includes the steps, in the computer, of reading out information data of a storage device previously stored in a storage device and information data of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device, displaying an identifier of the storage device and identifiers of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device on a screen on the basis of the information data read out, accepting a command to select the displayed identifier of the storage device, and displaying performance information data of the devices utilizing the selected storage device in association on the basis of the accepted command and the information data read out.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2006Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kei Takeda, Takato Kusama
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Publication number: 20070226328Abstract: When the application I/O performance problem is solved, the I/O amount from the application is increased. In the conventional technique, no consideration has been taken on the affect of the increase of the application I/O performance to other applications. A resource whose I/O load is reduced by setting modification of a storage subsystem is specified and the application using this resource is specified as an application whose I/O processing amount may be increased. Furthermore, the resource used by the specified application and another application using this resource are specified as a resource and an application whose I/O processing performance may be lowered by the setting modification.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2006Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventors: Takato Kusama, Hiroyuki Ochi, Toshiaki Matsuo
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Publication number: 20070118715Abstract: A method for rearranging a logical volume including arranging a logical volume rearranging program on a particular server and using the logical volume rearranging program to acquire server/storage mapping information from each server and performance information from each storage subsystem. Moreover, the logical volume rearranging program acquires request I/O performance and a rearranging rule for each application set by a user. Furthermore, the logical volume rearranging program determines a destination by using the logical volume rearranging destination parity group specified by the user according to the aforementioned information, and rearranges the logical volume according to the storage subsystem performance and the request I/O performance of each application.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2007Publication date: May 24, 2007Inventors: Takato Kusama, Tatsundo Aoshima, Kei Takeda
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Patent number: 7194594Abstract: Provided are an area management table, an operation management policy, and a resource broker. In the area management table, one or more physical area IDs for identifying one or more storage area candidates selected from a plurality of physical storage areas, are associated with each application program. The operation management policy states a guideline for storage area assignments based on operational status of each server provided with the application programs. The resource broker detects the operational status of each server, and based on the detected operational statuses and the operation management policy, determines physical storage areas to assign to each application program.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2004Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masato Asami, Takato Kusama
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Publication number: 20070061446Abstract: A CPU of a performance management server, upon receipt of a request from a keyboard or a mouse to newly assign an application to a specified application server, acquires an I/O path between the requested application server and a storage subsystem combined with the application server from the configuration information managed by the internal database of the performance management server, and based on the performance information managed by the database in the performance management server, an I/O path having the performance information satisfying the designated conditions is extracted from the acquired I/O paths and displayed as a candidate path on a display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2005Publication date: March 15, 2007Inventors: Toshiaki Matsuo, Takato Kusama, Tatsundo Aoshima, Kei Takeda
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Patent number: 7185164Abstract: A method for rearranging a logical volume including arranging a logical volume rearranging program on a particular server and using the logical volume rearranging program to acquire server/storage mapping information from each server and performance information from each storage subsystem. Moreover, the logical volume rearranging program acquires request I/O performance and a rearranging rule for each application set by a user. Furthermore, the logical volume rearranging program determines a destination by using the logical volume rearranging destination parity group specified by the user according to the aforementioned information, and rearranges the logical volume according to the storage subsystem performance and the request I/O performance of each application.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2004Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takato Kusama, Tatsundo Aoshima, Kei Takeda
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Publication number: 20070016736Abstract: A performance information display method using a computer, includes the steps, in the computer, of reading out information data of a storage device previously stored in a storage device and information data of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device, displaying an identifier of the storage device and identifiers of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device on a screen on the basis of the information data read out, accepting a command to select the displayed identifier of the storage device, and displaying performance information data of the devices utilizing the selected storage device in association on the basis of the accepted command and the information data read out.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: January 18, 2007Inventors: Kei Takeda, Takato Kusama
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Publication number: 20060265497Abstract: In a storage network including at least a computer system, at least an external storage and at least a network system for communication of input/output data between the computer system and the external storage, a method of collecting the performance data on the network system and the software operated on the network system, in which the range or degree of data collection is automatically adjusted as required based on the performance data collected.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2006Publication date: November 23, 2006Inventors: Hideo Ohata, Tatsundo Aoshima, Kei Takeda, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Takato Kusama
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Patent number: 7127555Abstract: A performance information display method using a computer, includes the steps, in the computer, of reading out information data of a storage device previously stored in a storage device and information data of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device, displaying an identifier of the storage device and identifiers of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device on a screen on the basis of the information data read out, accepting a command to select the displayed identifier of the storage device, and displaying performance information data of the devices utilizing the selected storage device in association on the basis of the accepted command and the information data read out.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2005Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kei Takeda, Takato Kusama
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Patent number: 7107273Abstract: In a storage network including at least a computer system, at least an external storage and at least a network system for communication of input/output data between the computer system and the external storage, a method of collecting the performance data on the network system and the software operated on the network system, in which the range or degree of data collection is automatically adjusted as required based on the performance data collected.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2004Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hideo Ohata, Tatsundo Aoshima, Kei Takeda, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Takato Kusama
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Patent number: 7096315Abstract: A performance information display method using a computer, includes the steps, in the computer, of reading out information data of a storage device previously stored in a storage device and information data of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device, displaying an identifier of the storage device and identifiers of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device on a screen on the basis of the information data read out, accepting a command to select the displayed identifier of the storage device, and displaying performance information data of the devices utilizing the selected storage device in association on the basis of the accepted command and the information data read out.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2004Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kei Takeda, Takato Kusama
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Publication number: 20060112253Abstract: In a file system in which data is distributively stored on a plurality of volumes in compliance with file storage requests from business applications, the present invention calculates reliability requirements or performance requirements which represent storage requirements for the storage of individual files requested for storage, selects an actual file storage destination volume in accordance with the reliability characteristics or performance characteristics of each volume, and stores file data on the selected storage destination volume. Since the storage requirements are calculated to select a storage destination volume for each file, data storage destination optimization can be achieved on an individual file basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2006Publication date: May 25, 2006Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kei Takeda, Takato Kusama
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Patent number: 7035882Abstract: In a file system in which data is distributively stored on a plurality of volumes in compliance with file storage requests from business applications, the present invention calculates reliability requirements or performance requirements which represent storage requirements for the storage of individual files requested for storage, selects an actual file storage destination volume in accordance with the reliability characteristics or performance characteristics of each volume, and storage file data on the selected storage destination volume. Since the storage requirements are calculated to select a storage destination volume for each file, data storage destination optimization can be achieved on an individual file basis.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2003Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kei Takeda, Takato Kusama
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Patent number: 7031988Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to display the amount of storage subsystem use by a specified computer or file system in accordance with the information acquired from computers and storage subsystems. An information collection engine provided for each computer acquires file system configurations from computers and volume configurations from storage subsystems. Further, a special computer is provided with a polling engine that gathers the data acquired by each information collection engine and stores it in an internal database, and with a data display engine that acquires the information about the amount of storage subsystem use by a specified computer or file system from said internal database and displays it on screen.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2003Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takato Kusama, Kei Takeda, Tatsundo Aoshima
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Publication number: 20050278584Abstract: Provided are an area management table, an operation management policy, and a resource broker. In the area management table, one or more physical area IDs for identifying one or more storage area candidates selected from a plurality of physical storage areas, are associated with each application program. The operation management policy states a guideline for storage area assignments based on operational status of each server provided with the application programs. The resource broker detects the operational status of each server, and based on the detected operational statuses and the operation management policy, determines physical storage areas to assign to each application program.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2004Publication date: December 15, 2005Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masato Asami, Takato Kusama
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Publication number: 20050278478Abstract: A performance information display method using a computer, includes the steps, in the computer, of reading out information data of a storage device previously stored in a storage device and information data of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device, displaying an identifier of the storage device and identifiers of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device on a screen on the basis of the information data read out, accepting a command to select the displayed identifier of the storage device, and displaying performance information data of the devices utilizing the selected storage device in association on the basis of the accepted command and the information data read out.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2005Publication date: December 15, 2005Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kei Takeda, Takato Kusama
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Publication number: 20050229032Abstract: A Method for rearranging logical volume includes arranging a logical volume rearranging program on a particular server and acquiring server/storage mapping information from each server and performance information from each storage subsystem by the logical volume rearranging program, moreover, the logical volume rearranging program acquiring request I/O performance and a rearranging rule for each application set by a user, furthermore, the logical volume rearranging program deciding it by using the logical volume rearranging destination parity group specified by the user according to the aforementioned information, rearranging the logical volume according to the storage subsystem performance and the request I/O performance of each application.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2004Publication date: October 13, 2005Inventors: Takato Kusama, Tatsundo Aoshima, Kei Takeda