Patents by Inventor Anawat Chanhunthod

Anawat Chanhunthod 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).

  • Request processing for stateless conformance engine
    Patent number: 8321867
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus to increase conformance of a storage implementation of a data set to a storage policy are presented. In one embodiment, the method includes performing a conformance check of a data set state and an associated data management policy. The method includes identifying a set of tasks that can be performed to increase conformance of the data set state to the associated policy, and generating a task list using tasks from the set of tasks. The method further includes outputting an indication of the task list to a user and accepting from the user an approval of the task list before generating and executing a second task list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Network Appliance, Inc.
    Inventors: James H. Holl, II, Peter Smoot, Sahn Lam, Anawat Chanhunthod, Hemanth Pannem