Patents by Inventor Howard Charles Rankin

Howard Charles Rankin 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).

  • Configuring memory for a RAID storage system
    Patent number: 7191285
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus having a memory operable with a virtualised RAID controller to determine an optimum I/O configuration by testing performance characteristics of a plurality of I/O operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William James Scales, Howard Charles Rankin, Nicholas Michael O'Rourke
  • Configuring memory for a RAID storage system
    Publication number: 20040225926
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus having a memory operable with a virtualised RAID controller to determine an optimum I/O configuration by testing performance characteristics of a plurality of I/O operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William James Scales, Howard Charles Rankin, Nicholas Michael O'Rourke