Patents by Inventor Amy N. Blea
Amy N. Blea 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: 10915406Abstract: In one embodiment, I/O operations may be swapped from an original storage unit to a replacement storage unit in a manner which can reduce or eliminate delays caused by copying of data from the original storage unit to the replacement storage unit. A point-in-time snap copy relationship between the original storage unit and the replacement storage unit of storage locations is established and I/O operations are swapped from the original storage unit to the replacement storage unit. The I/O operations are resumed, accessing the replacement storage unit instead of the original storage unit in the input/output operations issued by the at least one host. Other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amy N. Blea, David Randall Blea, Gregory E. McBride, William J. Rooney, John Jay Wolfgang
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Publication number: 20190258548Abstract: In one embodiment, I/O operations may be swapped from an original storage unit to a replacement storage unit in a manner which can reduce or eliminate delays caused by copying of data from the original storage unit to the replacement storage unit. A point-in-time snap copy relationship between the original storage unit and the replacement storage unit of storage locations is established and I/O operations are swapped from the original storage unit to the replacement storage unit. The I/O operations are resumed, accessing the replacement storage unit instead of the original storage unit in the input/output operations issued by the at least one host. Other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Amy N. Blea, David Randall Blea, Gregory E. McBride, William J. Rooney, John Jay Wolfgang
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Patent number: 10324801Abstract: In one embodiment, I/O operations may be swapped from an original storage unit to a replacement storage unit in a manner which can reduce or eliminate delays caused by copying of data from the original storage unit to the replacement storage unit. A point-in-time snap copy relationship between the original storage unit and the replacement storage unit of storage locations is established and I/O operations are swapped from the original storage unit to the replacement storage unit. The I/O operations are resumed, accessing the replacement storage unit instead of the original storage unit in the input/output operations issued by the at least one host. Other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amy N. Blea, David Randall Blea, Gregory E. McBride, William J. Rooney, John Jay Wolfgang
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Patent number: 10255786Abstract: A light source unit may be disposed at a first posterior side location of a server computing device. The light source unit may be configured to at least provide lighting to a posterior side of the server computing device via one or more light emitting diodes. The light emitting diodes may be coupled to at least a second posterior side location of the server computing device. The light source unit may include a first universal serial bus (USB) interface configured to receive a first end of a USB cable. The USB cable may be configured to connect to a power source at a second end. The power source may be for use in providing power to the light emitting diodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bruce J. Aichang, Amy N. Blea, George T. Kattampallil, Said Lamri, Carlo F. Saba
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Patent number: 10146453Abstract: In one embodiment of the present description, data is migrated to a replacement source storage unit of a storage subsystem while being mirrored from the original source storage unit of a storage subsystem to an original target storage unit of a storage subsystem, and the original source storage unit and the replacement storage unit are swapped in a multi-storage volume swap to write updates to the replacement source storage unit instead of the original source storage unit, in input/output operations issued by at least one host. Further, data stored in the replacement source storage unit, is mirrored from the replacement source storage unit to the original target unit. Other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Amy N. Blea, David R. Blea, Gregory E. McBride, William J. Rooney, John J. Wolfgang
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Publication number: 20180137737Abstract: A light source unit may be disposed at a first posterior side location of a server computing device. The light source unit may be configured to at least provide lighting to a posterior side of the server computing device via one or more light emitting diodes. The light emitting diodes may be coupled to at least a second posterior side location of the server computing device. The light source unit may include a first universal serial bus (USB) interface configured to receive a first end of a USB cable. The USB cable may be configured to connect to a power source at a second end. The power source may be for use in providing power to the light emitting diodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Bruce J. Aichang, Amy N. Blea, George T. Kattampallil, Said Lamri, Carlo F. Saba
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Patent number: 9870692Abstract: A light source unit may be disposed at a first posterior side location of a server computing device. The light source unit may be configured to at least provide lighting to a posterior side of the server computing device via one or more light emitting diodes. The light emitting diodes may be coupled to at least a second posterior side location of the server computing device. The light source unit may include a first universal serial bus (USB) interface configured to receive a first end of a USB cable. The USB cable may be configured to connect to a power source at a second end. The power source may be for use in providing power to the light emitting diodes.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bruce J. Aichang, Amy N. Blea, George T. Kattampallil, Said Lamri, Carlo F. Saba
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Publication number: 20170161156Abstract: In one embodiment, I/O operations may be swapped from an original storage unit to a replacement storage unit in a manner which can reduce or eliminate delays caused by copying of data from the original storage unit to the replacement storage unit. A point-in-time snap copy relationship between the original storage unit and the replacement storage unit of storage locations is established and I/O operations are swapped from the original storage unit to the replacement storage unit. The I/O operations are resumed, accessing the replacement storage unit instead of the original storage unit in the input/output operations issued by the at least one host. Other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Amy N. Blea, David Randall Blea, Gregory E. McBride, William J. Rooney, John Jay Wolfgang
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Patent number: 9619331Abstract: In one embodiment, I/O operations may be swapped from an original storage unit to a replacement storage unit in a manner which can reduce or eliminate delays caused by copying of data from the original storage unit to the replacement storage unit. A point-in-time snap copy relationship between the original storage unit and the replacement storage unit of storage locations is established and I/O operations are swapped from the original storage unit to the replacement storage unit. The I/O operations are resumed, accessing the replacement storage unit instead of the original storage unit in the input/output operations issued by the at least one host. Other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amy N. Blea, David Randall Blea, Gregory E. McBride, William J. Rooney, John Jay Wolfgang
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Publication number: 20170016585Abstract: A light source unit may be disposed at a first posterior side location of a server computing device. The light source unit may be configured to at least provide lighting to a posterior side of the server computing device via one or more light emitting diodes. The light emitting diodes may be coupled to at least a second posterior side location of the server computing device. The light source unit may include a first universal serial bus (USB) interface configured to receive a first end of a USB cable. The USB cable may be configured to connect to a power source at a second end. The power source may be for use in providing power to the light emitting diodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2015Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Bruce J. Aichang, Amy N. Blea, George T. Kattampallil, Said Lamri, Carlo F. Saba
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Publication number: 20160313935Abstract: In one embodiment of the present description, data is migrated to a replacement source storage unit of a storage subsystem while being mirrored from the original source storage unit of a storage subsystem to an original target storage unit of a storage subsystem, and the original source storage unit and the replacement storage unit are swapped in a multi-storage volume swap to write updates to the replacement source storage unit instead of the original source storage unit, in input/output operations issued by at least one host. Further, data stored in the replacement source storage unit, is mirrored from the replacement source storage unit to the original target unit. Other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Amy N. Blea, David R. Blea, Gregory E. McBride, William J. Rooney, John J. Wolfgang
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Patent number: 9405628Abstract: In one embodiment of the present description, data is migrated to a replacement source storage unit of a storage subsystem while being mirrored from the original source storage unit of a storage subsystem to an original target storage unit of a storage subsystem, and the original source storage unit and the replacement storage unit are swapped in a multi-storage volume swap to write updates to the replacement source storage unit instead of the original source storage unit, in input/output operations issued by at least one host. Further, data stored in the replacement source storage unit, is mirrored from the replacement source storage unit to the original target unit. Other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amy N. Blea, David R. Blea, Gregory E. McBride, William J. Rooney, John J. Wolfgang
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Publication number: 20150205687Abstract: In one embodiment, I/O operations may be swapped from an original storage unit to a replacement storage unit in a manner which can reduce or eliminate delays caused by copying of data from the original storage unit to the replacement storage unit. A point-in-time snap copy relationship between the original storage unit and the replacement storage unit of storage locations is established and I/O operations are swapped from the original storage unit to the replacement storage unit. The I/O operations are resumed, accessing the replacement storage unit instead of the original storage unit in the input/output operations issued by the at least one host. Other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2014Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amy N. Blea, David Randall Blea, Gregory E. McBride, William J. Rooney, John Jay Wolfgang
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Patent number: 9032173Abstract: A method according to one embodiment includes receiving instruction to change from an original target storage subsystem in a disaster recovery configuration-to a new target storage subsystem. Second copy services relationships are created between one or more new target volumes on the new target storage subsystem and one or more source volumes on a source storage subsystem using multi-target functionality. Existing first copy services relationships between the source storage subsystem and the original target storage subsystem are terminated after all of the second copy services relationships are full duplex.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amy N. Blea, David R. Blea, Gregory E. McBride, John J. Wolfgang
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Publication number: 20150088821Abstract: In one embodiment of the present description, data is migrated to a replacement source storage unit of a storage subsystem while being mirrored from the original source storage unit of a storage subsystem to an original target storage unit of a storage subsystem, and the original source storage unit and the replacement storage unit are swapped in a multi-storage volume swap to write updates to the replacement source storage unit instead of the original source storage unit, in input/output operations issued by at least one host. Further, data stored in the replacement source storage unit, is mirrored from the replacement source storage unit to the original target unit. Other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Amy N. Blea, David R. Blea, Gregory E. McBride, William J. Rooney, John J. Wolfgang
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Publication number: 20150052324Abstract: A method according to one embodiment includes receiving instruction to change from an original target storage subsystem in a disaster recovery configuration-to a new target storage subsystem. Second copy services relationships are created between one or more new target volumes on the new target storage subsystem and one or more source volumes on a source storage subsystem using multi-target functionality. Existing first copy services relationships between the source storage subsystem and the original target storage subsystem are terminated after all of the second copy services relationships are full duplex.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventors: Amy N. Blea, David R. Blea, Gregory E. McBride, John J. Wolfgang
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Patent number: 8904131Abstract: A system according to one embodiment, includes one or more source volumes on a source storage subsystem from which data is copied in first copy services relationships, the one or more source volumes being accessible to an application; one or more original target volumes on an original target storage subsystem to which data is copied in the first copy services relationships; logic configured for selecting a new target storage subsystem to replace the original target storage subsystem; logic configured for creating second copy services relationships between one or more new target volumes on the new target storage subsystem and the one or more source volumes on the source storage subsystem using multi-target functionality; and logic configured for terminating the first copy services relationships after all of the second copy services relationships are full duplex.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amy N. Blea, David R. Blea, Gregory E. McBride, John J. Wolfgang
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Patent number: 8892836Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for switching a storage subsystem in a disaster recovery configuration includes receiving instruction to change from an original target storage subsystem in a disaster recovery configuration including: a source storage subsystem including one or more source volumes from which data is copied in first copy services relationships, the one or more source volumes being accessible to an application, and the original target storage subsystem including one or more original target volumes to which data is copied in the first copy services relationships; selecting a new target storage subsystem to replace the original target storage subsystem, creating second copy services relationships between one or more new target volumes on the new target storage subsystem and the one or more source volumes on the source storage subsystem using multi-target functionality, and terminating the first copy services relationships after all the second copy services relationships are full duplex.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amy N. Blea, David R. Blea, Gregory E. McBride, John J. Wolfgang
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Patent number: 8799602Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to data migration and/or disaster recovery. One embodiment enables merging of bitmaps to allow for automation of the process of switching to a different target volume on the same storage subsystem without major interruption of data recovery capability and limited interruption of host I/O to the source volumes during the migration. In one approach, the migration of data onto a new target volume within the same storage subsystem as the original target volume is automated, without requiring the user to manually create or remove any new copy relationships.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2012Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amy N. Blea, David R. Blea, Gregory E. McBride, John J. Wolfgang
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Patent number: 8793456Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to data migration and/or disaster recovery. One embodiment enables merging of bitmaps to allow for automation of the process of switching to a different target volume on the same storage subsystem without major interruption of data recovery capability and limited interruption of host I/O to the source volumes during the migration. In one approach, the migration of data onto a new target volume within the same storage subsystem as the original target volume is automated, without requiring the user to manually create or remove any new copy relationships.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amy N. Blea, David R. Blea, Gregory E. McBride, John J. Wolfgang