Patents by Inventor Dianna Butter

Dianna Butter 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).

  • Optimized reconstruction and copyback methodology for a failed drive in the presence of a global hot spare disc
    Publication number: 20080126839
    Abstract: The present invention is a system for optimizing the reconstruction and copyback of data contained on a failed disk in a multi-disk mass storage system. A system in accordance with the present invention may comprise the following: a processing unit requiring mass-storage; one or more disks configured as a RAID system; an associated global hot spare disk; and interconnections linking the processing unit, the RAID and the global hot spare disk. In a further aspect of the present invention, a method for the reconstruction and copyback of a failed disk volume utilizing a global hot spare disk is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Satish Sangapu, Kevin Kidney, Kurt Denton, Dianna Butter