Patents by Inventor Edward Martin McCrickard

Edward Martin McCrickard 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).

  • Apparatus, system, and method for modeling for storage provisioning
    Patent number: 7769861
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for provisioning storage resources according to a modeling policy. The modeling apparatus includes a monitoring module, a policy module, and a provisioning module. The monitoring module monitors the storage resources on the storage system. The policy module stores and maintains storage management, storage provisioning, and storage resource modeling policies. A user may access and specify these policies via a specification module. The provisioning module automatically provisions new storage resources, such as logical unit numbers (LUNs) according to the storage provisioning policies and modeling policies. The modeling policy defines a modeling strategy by which new storage resources are provisioned to include some or all of the attributes of a model storage resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Justin Russell Bendich, David Maxwell Cannon, Alireza Razzaghi Daryan, Brian Augustine Delaire, Barry Lynn Eberly, David Wilson Groves, Srinivas Jandhyala, Michael Loren Lamb, Edward Martin McCrickard, Raymond Matthew Swank