Patents by Inventor Forrest Trimbell

Forrest Trimbell 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).

  • Patent number: 11194501
    Abstract: A technique is configured to maintain multiple copies of data served by storage nodes of a cluster during upgrade of a storage node to ensure continuous protection of the data served by the nodes. The data is logically organized as one or more volumes on storage devices of the cluster and includes metadata that describe the data of each volume. A data protection system may be configured to maintain at least two copies of the data in the cluster during upgrade to a storage node that is assigned to host one of the copies of the data but that is taken offline during the upgrade. As a result, an original slice service of the node may be rendered unavailable during the upgrade. In response, the technique redirects replicated data targeted to the original slice service to a standby pool of slice services in accordance with a degraded redundant metadata service of the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: James Philip Wittig, Forrest Trimbell, Daniel David McCarthy, Jared Cantwell, Mark Olson, Christopher Cason
  • Publication number: 20210232314
    Abstract: A technique is configured to maintain multiple copies of data served by storage nodes of a cluster during upgrade of a storage node to ensure continuous protection of the data served by the nodes. The data is logically organized as one or more volumes on storage devices of the cluster and includes metadata that describe the data of each volume. A data protection system may be configured to maintain at least two copies of the data in the cluster during upgrade to a storage node that is assigned to host one of the copies of the data but that is taken offline during the upgrade. As a result, an original slice service of the node may be rendered unavailable during the upgrade. In response, the technique redirects replicated data targeted to the original slice service to a standby pool of slice services in accordance with a degraded redundant metadata service of the cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: James Philip Wittig, Forrest Trimbell, Daniel David McCarthy, Jared Cantwell, Mark Olson, Christopher Cason
  • Patent number: 7571430
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of an adaptive procedure table which is capable of providing default behaviors for each procedure if a corresponding procedure is not defined or has been removed from a software build. The default behaviors for each procedure may be defined in a template file provided by a developer before a compile time of software. The present invention may permit a module that defines the implementation of a procedure to be removed from the software build without requiring source code changes. As such, the developer may be allowed to remove or add certain features from a compiled program without introducing compile time or link time errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Forrest Trimbell, Joseph G. Moore, Satish Sangapu, William Hetrick
  • Publication number: 20060164269
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of an adaptive procedure table which is capable of providing default behaviors for each procedure if a corresponding procedure is not defined or has been removed from a software build. The default behaviors for each procedure may be defined in a template file provided by a developer before a compile time of software. The present invention may permit a module that defines the implementation of a procedure to be removed from the software build without requiring source code changes. As such, the developer may be allowed to remove or add certain features from a compiled program without introducing compile time or link time errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Forrest Trimbell, Joseph Moore, Satish Sangapu, William Hetrick