Patents by Inventor Avais AHMAD

Avais AHMAD 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).

  • MANAGEMENT METHOD
    Publication number: 20240103983
    Abstract: A management method includes accessing API interfaces and collecting data related to primary volumes, remote copy volumes, and shared upload volumes, generating order topology related to the primary, remote copy, and shared upload volumes, calculating a set P of the primary volumes storing data to be deleted and specifying a set Vd of the remote copy volumes directly related to the set P in the order topology, calculating, as a set C, all of the shared upload volumes related to the set P in the order topology and specifying a set Vi of all of the remote copy volumes related to the set C in the order topology, calculating a set Vid as the complementary set of the set Vd in the set Vi, and specifying a set Pid of the primary volumes one level higher than the set Vid in the order topology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Avais AHMAD, Shinichi Hayashi, Kaori Nakano
  • Management system, method for management by management system, and recording medium
    Patent number: 11748317
    Abstract: Provided is a management system for managing a relation between a database and a volume without installing an agent. A management system manages a relation between a data catalog and a volume of a storage system storing data to be used by the data catalog. A processor of the management system accesses data that is included in the data catalog and that includes authentication information of the volume; detects the number of accesses to the volume in a time range including a timing of the access to the data; and manages the relation between the data catalog and the volume on the basis of the number of accesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Avais Ahmad, Shinichi Hayashi, Satoshi Kaneko, Takashi Tameshige
  • MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT BY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20230079305
    Abstract: Provided is a management system for managing a relation between a database and a volume without installing an agent. A management system manages a relation between a data catalog and a volume of a storage system storing data to be used by the data catalog. A processor of the management system accesses data that is included in the data catalog and that includes authentication information of the volume; detects the number of accesses to the volume in a time range including a timing of the access to the data; and manages the relation between the data catalog and the volume on the basis of the number of accesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Avais AHMAD, Shinichi HAYASHI, Satoshi KANEKO, Takashi TAMESHIGE