Patents by Inventor Brian L. Hoffman

Brian L. Hoffman 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).

  • Migrating data in a storage system
    Patent number: 7302539
    Abstract: A method of managing storage comprises connecting a number of virtual disks to a disk controller loop of a disk controller, and mounting a portion of the number of virtual disks to the disk controller wherein a storage map is loaded into a fixed-size memory of the disk controller for each virtual disk mounted. The method further comprises receiving a request for data contained on an unmounted virtual disk with the unmounted virtual disk having a storage map of certain size. A sufficient number of mounted virtual disks are dismounted to allow the fixed-size memory to accommodate the certain size of the unmounted virtual disk storage map. The unmounted virtual disk may be mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Anuja Korgaonkar, Jesse Yandell, Brian L. Hoffman