Patents by Inventor Darrell Gene Suggs

Darrell Gene Suggs 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).

  • Virtual storage appliance gateway
    Patent number: 9426218
    Abstract: A network connection is established between a virtual storage appliance (VSA) in a virtual machine and a storage server system. The virtual machine can run on a computing device remote to the storage server system. Access is provided to a second shared namespace of data at the VSA over the network connection. The second shared namespace is a policy defined subset of a first shared namespace of the storage server system. Data in the second shared namespace is accessible at the storage server system by at least one other computing device communicatively coupled to the storage server system. The data in the second shared namespace at the VSA is replicated to create a local copy at the computing device. Changes to the local copy are synchronized with the data in the second shared namespace at the storage sever system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph P. CaraDonna, David Anthony Slik, Darrell Gene Suggs
  • VIRTUAL STORAGE APPLIANCE GETAWAY
    Publication number: 20160112513
    Abstract: A network connection is established between a virtual storage appliance (VSA) in a virtual machine and a storage server system. The virtual machine can run on a computing device remote to the storage server system. Access is provided to a second shared namespace of data at the VSA over the network connection. The second shared namespace is a policy defined subset of a first shared namespace of the storage server system. Data in the second shared namespace is accessible at the storage server system by at least one other computing device communicatively coupled to the storage server system. The data in the second shared namespace at the VSA is replicated to create a local copy at the computing device. Changes to the local copy are synchronized with the data in the second shared namespace at the storage sever system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Joseph P. CaraDonna, David Anthony Slik, Darrell Gene Suggs