Patents by Inventor Andrew Randall

Andrew Randall 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).

  • Journaling raid system
    Patent number: 8838893
    Abstract: A method of providing data storage is disclosed that includes writing a plurality of data non-sequentially to at least one first storage drive, the at least one first storage drive having a random first input/output operations per second (IOPS) speed, and writing the plurality of data and an associated plurality of journal metadata sequentially to at least one second storage drive, the at least one second storage drive having a second random IOPS speed that is slower than the first random IOPS speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Nexsan Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Randall, Alastair Bryers, Thomas F. Gosnell
  • Journaling RAID System
    Publication number: 20140173186
    Abstract: A method of providing data storage is disclosed that includes writing a plurality of data non-sequentially to at least one first storage drive, the at least one first storage drive having a random first input/output operations per second (IOPS) speed, and writing the plurality of data and an associated plurality of journal metadata sequentially to at least one second storage drive, the at least one second storage drive having a second random IOPS speed that is slower than the first random IOPS speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: NEXSAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Randall, Alastair Bryers, Thomas F. Gosnell