Patents by Inventor Bob Harper

Bob Harper 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).

  • System for achieving enhanced performance and data availability in a unified redundant array of disk drives by using user defined partitioning and level of redundancy
    Patent number: 5857112
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system of hardware and software that combine to efficiently integrate the various requirements for system performance and system reliability in a RAID system. A user of the present invention is able to select from a range of system performance and reliability configurations, independently of each other. From user specifications, the present invention initially constructs a user space which must be mapped onto the physical storage space in the array of disk drives. The present invention preserves the orthogonality of performance and reliability concepts through a series of mappings that relate to these concepts independently as it transforms user space into the physical space of the disk array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Inventors: Ebrahim Hashemi, Martin Schulze, Jim Morris, Bob Harper, Swami Nathan, Paul Boulay, Dave Scheffey