Patents by Inventor Douglas J. Santoli

Douglas J. Santoli 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for array agnostic automated storage tiering
    Patent number: 10225162
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide, in a cloud infrastructure environment, an array agnostic automated storage tiering mechanism, wherein storage array types may be different. A user can select storage with an automated storage tiering policy while details of the storage are abstracted for the user. In embodiments, tiering policies determine a location for data based upon activity associated with the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Anurag Jain, Sukesh Kumar Biddappa, Stephen A. Mendes, Seema Tahaliyani, Douglas J. Santoli, Barbara S Tzanakis
  • Method and apparatus for command abstraction
    Patent number: 9268727
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide command abstraction. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining information on commands for a plurality of devices including devices of the same type having different command structures, receiving a generic command from a user directed to one of the devices of the same type, determining, using a computer processor, whether the generic command is supported, extracting parameters from the generic command, and generating from the extracted parameters and the generic command a device-specific command for execution by the one of the devices of the same type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: EMC Company
    Inventors: Anurag Jain, David A. Gillam, Nandakishore Venkatesan, Douglas J. Santoli, Frederick Crable, Patrick J. Hunt