Patents by Inventor Brent J. Petit

Brent J. Petit 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).

  • Spatial locality of file system block allocations for related items
    Patent number: 8271760
    Abstract: Example apparatus, methods, and computers facilitate improving spatial locality of file system block allocations for related items. One example method includes accessing a block allocation request that is configured to control a computer to allocate a block of storage available on a storage device and, upon determining that the block allocation request includes a session key that identifies a session associated with a block reservation pool, controlling the computer to allocate a block of storage from the block reservation pool to satisfy the block allocation request rather than allocating a block of storage from generally available blocks of storage. The block reservation pool includes blocks of storage on the storage device that satisfy a spatial locality relationship determined by a pre-read technique associated with the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Inventors: Brent J. Petit, Laurie Costello, Joe Habermann, Stephen P. Lord, James Mostek, John Reinart
  • SPATIAL LOCALITY OF FILE SYSTEM BLOCK ALLOCATIONS FOR RELATED ITEMS
    Publication number: 20100312959
    Abstract: Example apparatus, methods, and computers facilitate improving spatial locality of file system block allocations for related items. One example method includes accessing a block allocation request that is configured to control a computer to allocate a block of storage available on a storage device and, upon determining that the block allocation request includes a session key that identifies a session associated with a block reservation pool, controlling the computer to allocate a block of storage from the block reservation pool to satisfy the block allocation request rather than allocating a block of storage from generally available blocks of storage. The block reservation pool includes blocks of storage on the storage device that satisfy a spatial locality relationship determined by a pre-read technique associated with the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: QUANTUM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brent J. PETIT, Laurie COSTELLO, Joe HABERMANN, Stephen P. LORD, James MOSTEK, John REINART