Patents by Inventor Andrew Stephen CHITTENDEN

Andrew Stephen CHITTENDEN 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).

  • Method and an apparatus, and related computer-program products, for managing access request in multi-tenancy environments
    Patent number: 10318194
    Abstract: The apparatus comprises a plurality of interfaces, each interface having an associated interface ID; and a hardware-side processing device including at least one programmable hardware-implemented chip configured to process request packets, which are received from host computers and relate to access requests to one or more file system managed by the apparatus, and to generate response packets for the processed request packets; wherein, for a request packet which is received from a first host computer, at least one programmable hardware-implemented chip is configured to: determine the client ID being associated with the first host computer, determine the interface ID being associated with the first interface, determine whether the determined client ID and interface ID represent a permitted ID set or a prohibited ID set, and refrain from processing the received request packet if the determined client ID and interface ID represent a prohibited ID set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Vantara Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Stephen Chittenden, Jonathan Mark Smith, Antonio Robert Carlini, Ashwin Payyanadan, Robert Ian Williams
  • METHOD AND AN APPARATUS, AND RELATED COMPUTER-PROGRAM PRODUCTS, FOR MANAGING ACCESS REQUEST IN MULTI-TENANCY ENVIRONMENTS
    Publication number: 20170235509
    Abstract: The apparatus comprises a plurality of interfaces, each interface having an associated interface ID; and a hardware-side processing device including at least one programmable hardware-implemented chip configured to process request packets, which are received from host computers and relate to access requests to one or more file system managed by the apparatus, and to generate response packets for the processed request packets; wherein, for a request packet which is received from a first host computer, at least one programmable hardware-implemented chip is configured to: determine the client ID being associated with the first host computer, determine the interface ID being associated with the first interface, determine whether the determined client ID and interface ID represent a permitted ID set or a prohibited ID set, and refrain from processing the received request packet if the determined client ID and interface ID represent a prohibited ID set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Andrew Stephen CHITTENDEN, Jonathan Mark SMITH, Antonio Robert CARLINI, Ashwin PAYYANADAN, Robert Ian WILLIAMS