Patents by Inventor Dave FEI

Dave FEI 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).

  • Aggregation of updated tracks to be copied to a backup volume for physically contiguous storage on a RAID stride
    Patent number: 10740203
    Abstract: A plurality of tracks that are to be copied to a backup volume are aggregated in a container data structure. The plurality of tracks are stored physically contiguously in a single Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) stride. Mapping metadata is updated in the backup volume to indicate how logical tracks of the backup volume correspond to physical tracks stored in the RAID stride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Theresa M. Brown, Kevin Lin, Dave Fei, Gail Spear, Clint A. Hardy, Karl A. Nielsen
  • AGGREGATION OF UPDATED TRACKS TO BE COPIED TO A BACKUP VOLUME FOR PHYSICALLY CONTIGUOUS STORAGE ON A RAID STRIDE
    Publication number: 20200081808
    Abstract: A plurality of tracks that are to be copied to a backup volume are aggregated in a container data structure. The plurality of tracks are stored physically contiguously in a single Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) stride. Mapping metadata is updated in the backup volume to indicate how logical tracks of the backup volume correspond to physical tracks stored in the RAID stride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Theresa M. BROWN, Kevin LIN, Dave FEI, Gail SPEAR, Clint A. HARDY, Karl A. NIELSEN