Patents by Inventor Dawn Hill

Dawn Hill 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).

  • Virtualization metadata promotion
    Patent number: 7805565
    Abstract: A method for storing digital data in a virtualization storage system which includes the step of creating a virtual storage volume and communicating the location of the virtual storage volume to a storage subsystem. The storage subsystem identifies a mapping type between the virtual volume and at least one virtual volume-related physical device and then creates virtualization metadata describing the virtual volume, the mapping type, and the virtual volume-related physical device. The storage subsystem mediates the storing of at least a portion of the virtualization metadata on the virtual volume-related physical device as device stored metadata. A portion of the stored virtualization metadata is provided to then one or more using systems which utilize this metadata to update the virtual volume information contained therein. A virtualization storage system implements one or more steps of the methods of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Milligan, Dawn Hill, Ramesh Panuganty