Patents by Inventor George J. Quill

George J. Quill 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).

  • Method and apparatus for managing data volumes in a distributed computer system
    Patent number: 6996587
    Abstract: Data volumes on local hosts are discovered and managed by federated Java beans that run on each host. The Java beans form part of a three-tiered data services management. The lowest tier comprises management facade software running on each machine that converts platform-dependent interface written with the low-level kernel routines to platform-independent method calls. The middle tier is a set of federated Java beans that communicate with the management facades and with the upper tier of the system. The upper tier of the inventive system comprises presentation programs that can be directly manipulated by management personnel to view and control the system. The federated beans can configure and control data volumes with either a SCSI terminal emulation interface or a storage volume interface and use a logical disk aggregator to present all volumes available on a local host as a single “logical volume” in which all information regarding the various volumes is presented in a uniform manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter J. Wagener, Mark J. Musante, Chhandomay Mandal, Melora L. Goosey, Roberta A. Pokigo, George J. Quill, Peter L. Gratzer, Jillian I. DaCosta, Jonathan C. France
  • Method and apparatus for managing data volumes in a distributed computer system
    Publication number: 20030061399
    Abstract: Data volumes on local hosts are discovered and managed by federated Java beans that run on each host. The Java beans form part of a three-tiered data services management. The lowest tier comprises management facade software running on each machine that converts platform-dependent interface written with the low-level kernel routines to platform-independent method calls. The middle tier is a set of federated Java beans that communicate with the management facades and with the upper tier of the system. The upper tier of the inventive system comprises presentation programs that can be directly manipulated by management personnel to view and control the system. The federated beans can configure and control data volumes with either a SCSI terminal emulation interface or a storage volume interface and use a logical disk aggregator to present all volumes available on a local host as a single “logical volume” in which all information regarding the various volumes is presented in a uniform manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter J. Wagener, Mark J. Musante, Chhandomay Mandal, Melora L. Goosey, Roberta A. Pokigo, George J. Quill, Peter L. Gratzer, Jillian I. DaCosta, Jonathan C. France