Patents by Inventor Elizabeth Suzanne Richards

Elizabeth Suzanne Richards 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).

  • System and method for optimizing data in value-based storage system
    Patent number: 8683150
    Abstract: A storage system includes a plurality of data vats, and a processor including an optimizing unit that optimizes a value of data stored in the storage system. The optimizing unit optimizes the value by computing and implementing an optimal decision for allocating new data to a first data vat of the plurality of data vats, moving existing data from at least a second data vat of the plurality of data vats to the first data vat, and deleting existing data from the first data vat, based on an amount of data in each of the plurality of data vats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nikhil Bansal, Frederick Douglis, Lisa Karen Fleischer, Kirsten Weale Hildrum, Akshay Kumar Reddy Katta, John Davis Palmer, Elizabeth Suzanne Richards, David Tao, William Harold Tetzlaff, Joel Leonard Wolf, Philip Shi-lung Yu
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING DATA IN VALUE-BASED STORAGE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130013873
    Abstract: A storage system includes a plurality of data vats, and a processor including an optimizing unit that optimizes a value of data stored in the storage system. The optimizing unit optimizes the value by computing and implementing an optimal decision for allocating new data to a first data vat of the plurality of data vats, moving existing data from at least a second data vat of the plurality of data vats to the first data vat, and deleting existing data from the first data vat, based on an amount of data in each of the plurality of data vats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Nikhil Bansal, Frederick Douglis, Lisa Karen Fleischer, Kirsten Weale Hildrum, Akshay Kumar Reddy Katta, John Davis Palmer, Elizabeth Suzanne Richards, David Tao, William Harold Tetzlaff, Joel Leonard Wolf, Philip Shi-lung Yu
  • System and method for optimizing data in value-based storage system
    Patent number: 8275957
    Abstract: A method (and system) of storing data in a value-based storage system, includes optimizing a value of data stored in the value-based storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nikhil Bansal, Frederick Douglis, Lisa Karen Fleischer, Kirsten Weale Hildrum, Akshay Kumar Reddy Katta, John Davis Palmer, Elizabeth Suzanne Richards, David Tao, William Harold Tetzlaff, Joel Leonard Wolf, Philip Shi-lung Yu
  • Optimizing a storage system to support short data lifetimes
    Patent number: 7958093
    Abstract: A system and method for optimizing a storage system to support short data object lifetimes and highly utilized storage space are provided. With the system and method, data objects are clustered based on when they are anticipated to be deleted. When an application stores data, the application provides an indicator of the expected lifetime of the data, which may be a retention value, a relative priority of the data object, or the like. Data objects having similar expected lifetimes are clustered together in common data structures so that clusters of objects may be deleted efficiently in a single operation. Expected lifetimes may be changed by applications automatically. The system automatically determines how to handle these changes in expected lifetime using one or more of copying the data object, reclassifying the container in which the data object is held, and ignoring the change in expected lifetime for a time to investigate further changes in expected lifetime of other data objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kay Schwendimann Anderson, Frederick Douglis, Nagui Halim, John Davis Palmer, Elizabeth Suzanne Richards, David Tao, William Harold Tetzlaff, John Michael Tracey, Joel Leonard Wolf
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING DATA IN VALUE-BASED STORAGE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20080189494
    Abstract: A method (and system) of storing data in a value-based storage system, includes optimizing a value of data stored in the value-based storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nikhil Bansal, Frederick Douglis, Lisa Karen Fleischer, Kirsten Weale Hildrum, Akshay Kumar Reddy Katta, John Davis Palmer, Elizabeth Suzanne Richards, David Tao, William Harold Tetzlaff, Joe Leonard Wolf, Philip Shi-lung Yu