Patents by Inventor Alejandro R. Martinez, Jr.

Alejandro R. Martinez, Jr. 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).

  • Configurable storage array adapted to configure a segmentable bus based on an arrangement of connectors
    Patent number: 7000042
    Abstract: A configurable storage array includes a backplane, a plurality of storage devices coupled to the backplane, a segmentable bus coupled to the storage devices, a plurality of input/output connectors coupled to the segmentable bus, and a control board. The control board includes control logic adapted to determine an arrangement of connectors coupled to the input/output connectors and configure the segmentable bus to define a plurality of storage device arrays based on the arrangement. A method for configuring a storage array having a plurality of storage devices includes determining an arrangement of connectors coupled to input/output connectors of the configuring a storage array; and grouping subsets of the storage devices onto isolated bus segments in the storage array based on the arrangement of connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gregory E. Burns, Alejandro R. Martinez, Jr., Keith Pollock, Ronald G. Phillips, John H. Marino, Dennis J. Alexander