Patents by Inventor Alan Nitteberg

Alan Nitteberg 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).

  • Methods and systems for shared storage virtualization
    Patent number: 7734781
    Abstract: In a shared storage infrastructure accessible by more than one customer, the shared storage infrastructure is separated into a plurality of logical storage areas. A customer is associated with at least one logical storage area within the shared storage infrastructure. The customer and its logical storage areas are associated with at least one port in the shared storage infrastructure. Each customer has access only to the logical storage areas associated with the customer and cannot access the logical storage areas of any other customer. The shared storage infrastructure provides policy based storage management to each customer, that is, each customer appears to have access to a non-shared storage subsystem. By providing a virtualization layer, a customer may be given the ability to manage its own storage needs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Savvis Communications Corporation
    Inventors: William Tracy Fuller, David Powers, Alan Nitteberg, Michael David Durham, Reece Joyner, Barry Van Hooser, Lieu Thuy Thi Ta
  • Methods and systems for shared storage virtualization
    Publication number: 20030055972
    Abstract: In a shared storage infrastructure accessible by more than one customer, the shared storage infrastructure is separated into a plurality of logical storage areas. A customer is associated with at least one logical storage area within the shared storage infrastructure. The customer and its logical storage areas are associated with at least one port in the shared storage infrastructure. Each customer has access only to the logical storage areas associated with the customer and cannot access the logical storage areas of any other customer. The shared storage infrastructure provides policy based storage management to each customer, that is, each customer appears to have access to a non-shared storage subsystem. By providing a virtualization layer, a customer may be given the ability to manage its own storage needs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: William Tracy Fuller, David Powers, Alan Nitteberg, Michael David Durham, Reece Joyner, Barry Van Hooser, Lieu Thuy Thi Ta