Patents Examined by Bryce P. Bonzo
  • Providing Raid-10 with a configurable Raid width using a mapped raid group
    Patent number: 10229022
    Abstract: A mapped RAID group is generated that contains multiple RAID extents, and each one of the RAID extents is configured and arranged to indicate multiple drive extents that are each a contiguous region of non-volatile data storage in a physical drive. The RAID extents are divided into equal size subsets based on a requested RAID width. Drive extents are allocated from a drive extent pool such that the drive extents indicated by RAID extents contained in the same subset are all allocated from different ones of the physical drives. Logical block rotation is performed between the storage object and the mapped RAID group, causing host data written to consecutive blocks of the storage object address space to be directed to different ones of the RAID extents in the mapped RAID group. Data mirroring is performed between drive extents contained within each of the individual RAID extents of the RAID group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Jian Gao, Michael Wahl, Jibing Dong, Geng Han, Wayne Li, Jamin Kang
  • Context-aware rule engine for anomaly detection
    Patent number: 10228996
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to detecting anomalous behavior of network components in a complex network setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Lightbend, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Sasturkar, Arun Kejariwal, Uday K. Chettiar, Vishal Surana, Omer Emre Velipasaoglu, Dhruv Hemchand Jain, Mohamed A. Abdelhafez
  • Dynamic crash detection and debugging assistance
    Patent number: 10223236
    Abstract: In an approach to identifying program bugs, one or more computer processor detect a first crash in a try block. The one or more computer processors determine a catch block executed in response to the crash. The one or more computer processors collect a first set of environment information based on the catch block. The one or more computer processors create a first breakpoint where the first crash occurs. The one or more computer processors detect a second crash in the try block using a first pattern associated with the first crash based on the first set of environment information. The one or more computer processors collect a second set of environment information based on the catch block. The one or more computer processors create a second breakpoint where the second crash occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James E. Carey, Jim C. Chen, John M. Santosuosso
  • Storage system-based replication for disaster recovery in virtualized environments
    Patent number: 10223222
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for storage system-based replication for disaster recovery in virtualized environments are provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Harigovind Ramasamy, Soumitra Sarkar, Mahesh Viswanathan, Long Wang
  • Generating pseudorandom test items for software testing of an application under test (AUT)
    Patent number: 10223247
    Abstract: Generating pseudorandom test items for software testing of an Application Under Test (AUT) is provided. In one example, a method comprises selecting an oracle of one or more oracles within a test provider directory structure, the oracle defining one or more logical paths each comprising one or more test conditions and an expected result. A pseudorandom test item having an initial state of empty is generated, and a logical path of the one or more logical paths is selected. The one or more test conditions of the logical path are translated into a constraint. Based on the constraint, a pseudorandom test input is generated and stored in the pseudorandom test item in association with the expected result corresponding to the logical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Hao Liu, Min Zhan, Luyao Huang
  • Enclosure-encapsulated RAID rebuild
    Patent number: 10223221
    Abstract: A method for recovering data in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes implementing a RAID in a storage architecture comprising a RAID controller and a storage enclosure containing a set of storage drives belonging to the RAID. The RAID controller is configured to detect a failure condition associated with at least one of the storage drives in the set. In response to detecting the failure condition, the RAID controller sends, to the storage enclosure, an instruction to copy data from a first storage drive in the set to a second storage drive in the set as part of a RAID rebuild process. The storage enclosure receives the instruction and executes it without substantially involving the RAID controller in the copy process. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel S. Critchley, Gordon D. Hutchinson, Gareth P. Jones, Jonathan W. Short
  • Comprehensive testing of computer hardware configurations
    Patent number: 10223235
    Abstract: A program operating to test a computer has a limit to the number of certain components that it can utilize, less than the number of those components included in the computer. A resource allocator program receives a signal to modify allocation of resources to the programs executing in the computer. The resource allocator detects that the computer is operating in a mode for testing and selects a subset of the components not allocated to the program to swap for those presently allocated. The resource allocator can receive the signal repeatedly to complete testing the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Salim A. Agha, Peter J. Heyrman, Fraser A. Syme
  • Proactive failure handling in data processing systems
    Patent number: 10223193
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to predicting the health of a computer node using health report data and to proactively handling failures in computer network nodes. In an embodiment, a computer system monitors various health indicators for multiple nodes in a computer network. The computer system accesses stored health indicators that provide a health history for the computer network nodes. The computer system then generates a health status based on the monitored health indicators and the health history. The generated health status indicates the likelihood that the node will be healthy within a specified future time period. The computer system then leverages the generated health status to handle current or predicted failures. The computer system also presents the generated health status to a user or other entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hao Xia, Todd F. Pfleiger, Mark C. Benvenuto, Ajay Kalhan
  • Data storage device for increasing lifetime and RAID system including the same
    Patent number: 10216578
    Abstract: A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory arranged in drives and stripes, a buffer storing state information for each of the stripes, and a memory controller including a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) controller that operates in a spare region mode and performs data recovery using garbage collection based on the state information. The state information includes a first state indicating that none of the drives has malfunctioned, a second state indicating one of the drives has malfunctioned, and a third state indicating that data/parity stored in a malfunctioning drive has been recovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ju Pyung Lee
  • Root cause analysis
    Patent number: 10216565
    Abstract: Systems, methods and tools for performing a root cause analysis and improvements to the root cause detection by changing the way analysts and troubleshooters interact with the error reporting files to detect injection points that indicate the root cause of a system error. The systems, methods and tools record the observable behavior of users as the users review files to identify behavioral clues of the user to infer a level of interest in sections of the files being viewed. The systems identify correlations between user behavior and emotive expression to calculate a probability of event data being the root cause of an error. The systems may manually or automatically generate one or more tags in the reviewed file for each of the sections of the file that has a probability of being a root cause of a defect and the tags may vary as a function of the probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hernan A. Cunico, Jonathan Dunne, Jeremiah O'Connor, Asima Silva
  • Comprehensive testing of computer hardware configurations
    Patent number: 10216599
    Abstract: A program operating to test a computer has a limit to the number of certain components that it can utilize, less than the number of those components included in the computer. A resource allocator program receives a signal to modify allocation of resources to the programs executing in the computer. The resource allocator detects that the computer is operating in a mode for testing and selects a subset of the components not allocated to the program to swap for those presently allocated. The resource allocator can receive the signal repeatedly to complete testing the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Salim A. Agha, Peter J. Heyrman, David A. Larson Stanton, Fraser A. Syme
  • Component mounting system and component mounting method
    Patent number: 10210039
    Abstract: A component mounting system includes a component mounting line in which a plurality of processing devices are connected to constitute the component mounting line and a management device (management computer) connected to the component mounting line by a network, and each of the plurality of processing devices can be remotely operated via the network by an input unit of the management device. In this component mounting system, it is determined whether or not an error occurring in the processing device is a remote response error (ST1) and a remote operation right enabling the remote operation is set (ST21) with respect to the management device based on a result of the error type determination in a case where the type of the error is the remote response error (Yes in ST1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Oohori, Kenichiro Ishimoto, Atsushi Nakazono
  • Variable drive health determination and data placement
    Patent number: 10204017
    Abstract: The relative health of data storage drives may be determined based, at least in some aspects, on data access information and/or other drive operation information. In some examples, upon receiving the operation information from a computing device, a health level of a drive may be determined. The health level determination may be based at least in part on operating information received from a client entity. Additionally, a storage space allocation instruction or operation may be determined for execution. The allocation instruction or operation determined to be performed may be based at least in part on the determined health level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc J. Brooker, Tobias L. Holgers, Madhuvanesh Parthasarathy, Danny Wei
  • Method to configure monitoring thresholds using output of load or resource loadings
    Patent number: 10198348
    Abstract: The technology disclosed enables the automatic definition of monitoring alerts for a web page across a plurality of variables such as server response time, server CPU load, network bandwidth utilization, response time from a measured client, network latency, server memory utilization, and the number of simultaneous sessions, amongst others. This is accomplished through the combination of load or resource loading and performance snapshots, where performance correlations allow for the alignment of operating variables. Performance data such as response time for the objects retrieved, number of hits per second, number of timeouts per sec, and errors per second can be recorded and reported. This allows for the automated ranking of tens of thousands of web pages, with an analysis of the web page assets that affect performance, and the automatic alignment of performance alerts by resource participation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Spirent Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Buege
  • Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing an anticipated data integrity check
    Patent number: 10191826
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing an anticipated data integrity check are disclosed. According to one method, the method includes generating a test message including an anticipated data integrity check value (ADICV), wherein the ADICV is computed using at least one value based on at least one expected modification to message data in the test message by at least one system under test (SUT), and sending the test message to the at least one SUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES SINGAPORE (HOLDINGS) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Alon Regev, Noah Steven Gintis
  • Systems and methods for managing a cluster of cache servers
    Patent number: 10191824
    Abstract: Implementations of this disclosure are directed to systems, devices and methods for implementing a cache data management system. Webserver computers receive cache data requests for data stored at a computer cluster comprising a plurality of master cache data server computers that do not have corresponding slave cache data server computers to store reserve cache data. Proxy computers in communication with the plurality of webserver computers and the computer cluster route the cache data requests from the webserver computers to the computer cluster. Each proxy computer includes a sentinel module to monitor a health of the computer cluster by detecting failures of master cache data server computers and a trask monitor agent to manage the computer cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: MZ IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Liaw, Kevin Xiao, Glen Wong
  • Preserving management services with distributed metadata through the disaster recovery life cycle
    Patent number: 10185637
    Abstract: For disaster recovery involving a first site and a disaster recovery site, where at least a portion of management service metadata not isolated within the management service, a failover process is initiated, including creating an initial snapshot of the distributed metadata state. In a failback process, a representation is created of state changes for the management service and a delta description is calculated therefrom. The delta description is transmitted to the first site; and a reverse replica is created, at the first site, of all the workload components from the disaster recovery site. The delta description is played back to restore a distributed metadata state that existed in the disaster recovery site and to re-create it in the first site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Deng, Ruchi Mahindru, HariGovind V. Ramasamy, Soumitra Sarkar, Long Wang
  • Method and device for handling exception event in telecommunication cloud
    Patent number: 10187181
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and a device for handling an exception event in a telecommunication cloud to shorten the notification path and increase the reliability. The method of the present invention includes: detecting a resource state; transmitting a detected resource state exception event to the application layer agent process via a failure notification channel between an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) agent process and an application layer agent process as pre-established inside a host machine Host, and/or transmitting a detected resource state exception event to the application layer management process via a failure notification channel between the IaaS agent process and an application layer management process as pre-established inside the host machine Host. By means of the present invention, the notification path is shortened and the reliability is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoping Wen, Jianfeng Lai, Bin Qi, Xuanhui Chen, Taizhou Chen
  • Using read weight affinities to optimize the reading of block cache data
    Patent number: 10187457
    Abstract: A system for directing reads includes an input interface and a processor. The input interface is to receive a request to read from a plurality of servers. The processor is to determine a set of weights for a set of healthy servers of the plurality of servers and determine a server to receive the request based at least in part on the set of weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: GitHub, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Reynolds, Russell Belfer
  • Analyzing the availability of a system
    Patent number: 10185612
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for analyzing availability of a system including subsystems each having at least one failure mode with a corresponding failure effect on the system are provided. The apparatus includes a degraded mode tree generation unit configured to automatically generate a degraded mode tree. The degraded mode tree includes at least one degraded mode element representing a degraded system state of the system that deviates from a normal operation state of the system based on a predetermined generic system meta model stored in a database including Failure Mode and Effects Analysis elements representing subsystems, failure modes, failure effects, and diagnostic measures. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to evaluate the generated degraded mode tree for calculation of the availability of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Kai Höfig