Patents by Inventor Christopher T. Santilli

Christopher T. Santilli 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: 7380060
    Abstract: A method for processing data on a particular storage device in a plurality of storage devices is disclosed. A system and a computer program product for processing data on a particular storage device in a plurality of storage devices are also disclosed. All the storage devices from among the plurality of storage devices are not powered-on at the same time. A storage device, which is powered-off is selected for background processing. Further, a data-enhancing operation is selected. The selected storage device is powered on and the selected data-enhancing operation is processed on the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Copan Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Aloke Guha, Christopher T. Santilli
  • Patent number: 7210004
    Abstract: A method for processing data on a particular storage device in a plurality of storage devices is disclosed. A system and a computer program product for processing data on a particular storage device in a plurality of storage devices are also disclosed. All the storage devices from among the plurality of storage devices are not powered-on at the same time. A storage device, which is powered-off is selected for background processing. Further, a data-enhancing operation is selected. The selected storage device is powered on and the selected data-enhancing operation is processed on the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Copan Systems
    Inventors: Aloke Guha, Christopher T. Santilli
  • Patent number: 7210005
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing scalable, reliable, power-efficient, high-capacity data storage, wherein large numbers of closely packed data drives having corresponding metadata and parity volumes are individually powered on and off, depending upon their respective usage. In one embodiment, the invention is implemented in a RAID-type data storage system which employs a large number of hard disk drives that are individually controlled, so that only the disk drives that are in use are powered on. The reduced power consumption allows the disk drives to be contained in a smaller enclosure than would conventionally be possible. In a preferred embodiment, the data protection scheme is designed to utilize large, contiguous blocks of space on the data disk drives, and to use the space on one data disk drive at a time, so that the data disk drives which are not in use can be powered down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: COPAN Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Aloke Guha, Christopher T. Santilli, Gary B. McMillian