Patents by Inventor Bruce Pocock

Bruce Pocock 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).

  • Patent number: 8959305
    Abstract: A reclaim system provides for marking each track that is intended to be reclaimed in one or more storage devices and detecting and reclaiming such tracks. The reclaim system may include a feature and/or utility that may be used to mark, detect and return tracks to a free track pool of a virtual provisioning storage system in connection with the use of one or more thin Count Key Data (CKD) devices. Reclaim processing may include identifying tracks to be reclaimed, marking mark the tracks to be reclaimed, detecting tracks that have been marked to be reclaimed, and performing a reclaim task to return the marked and detected tracks to the free track pool, thereby reclaiming the tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas E. Lecrone, Bruce Pocock, Paul A. Linstead