Patents by Inventor Brian D. Burck

Brian D. Burck 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).

  • Scalable object store
    Patent number: 9558194
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for providing, via a storage provisioning engine, a scalable objects store enabled to store objects across multiple heterogeneous file arrays; wherein file arrays are enabled to be actively added to the object store without pausing the file arrays; and wherein data representing the objects enabled to be balanced across the heterogeneous file arrays based.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Shashwat Srivastav, Vishrut Shah, Sriram Sankaran, Jun Luo, Fredrick A. Crable, Chen Wang, Huapeng Yuan, Subba R. Gaddamadugu, David A. Gillam, Daquan Zuo, Wei Yin, Brian D. Burck
  • Method and apparatus for elastic provisioning
    Patent number: 9158734
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a cloud storage system to add a first one of a compute, network, and/or storage layer resource to the service, provision the added first one of the compute, network, and/or storage layer resources, and activate the provisioned first one of the compute, network, and/or storage layer resources into the already provisioned service with minimal interruption of the service to elastically add a resource to the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: EMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Janardhan D. Prabhakara, Brian D. Burck, Bennett L. Perkins, Jeffrey B. Gibson, Sukesh Kumar Biddappa