Patents by Inventor John A. CARMICHAEL

John A. CARMICHAEL 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).

  • Managing performance within an enterprise object store file system
    Patent number: 9460105
    Abstract: A file system is disclosed that includes an application wide name space instantiated in a global index (Gindex) that is used for accessing objects related to an application. Summary workload statistics are monitored and calculated via a calibrated hierarchical service level agreement (SLA) in a method of operation that includes: establishing a tenant wide name space used for accessing objects of an application stored in physical file systems across one or more appliances, each defining a storage cluster, in association with a tenant logically spanning across the appliances; and monitoring a performance statistic for the application across the tenant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Veritas Technologies LLC
    Inventor: John A. Carmichael
  • MANAGING PERFORMANCE WITHIN AN ENTERPRISE OBJECT STORE FILE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140297851
    Abstract: A file system is disclosed that includes an application wide name space instantiated in a global index (Gindex) that is used for accessing objects related to an application. Summary workload statistics are monitored and calculated via a calibrated hierarchical service level agreement (SLA) in a method of operation that includes: establishing a tenant wide name space used for accessing objects of an application stored in physical file systems across one or more appliances, each defining a storage cluster, in association with a tenant logically spanning across the appliances; and monitoring a performance statistic for the application across the tenant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventor: John A. CARMICHAEL