Patents by Inventor John A. Hayes

John A. Hayes 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).

  • FABRIC CARE COMPOSITION WITH SILICONE
    Publication number: 20210348085
    Abstract: A fabric care composition is provided including water; a cleaning surfactant; a fabric softening silicone; and a modified carbohydrate polymer having a weight average molecular weight of <500,000 Daltons and a Kjeldahl nitrogen content corrected for ash and volatiles, TKN, of ?0.5 wt %; wherein the modified carbohydrate polymer is a carbohydrate polymer functionalized with quaternary ammonium moieties; wherein the quaternary ammonium moieties on the modified carbohydrate polymer include: trimethyl ammonium moieties having formula (I) and dimethyl(alkyl) ammonium moieties having formula (II) wherein each R is independently selected from a C8-22 alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Emmett M. Partain, III, Jan E. Shulman, Leon Marteaux, Michael B. Clark, Jr., Aline Migliore, Yunshen Chen, Randara Pulukkody, Daniel S. Miller, John Hayes, Asghar A. Peera, Peilin Yang, Mariann Clark, Stephen J. Donovan, Jennifer P. Todd, Cynthia Leslie
  • Exporting an address space in a thin-provisioned storage device
    Patent number: 11169745
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer-readable storage medium for allowing a block-addressable storage device to provide a sparse address space to a host computer. The storage device exports an address space to a host computing device which is larger than the storage capacity of the storage device. The storage device translates received file system object addresses in the larger address space to physical locations in the smaller address space of the storage device. This allows the host computing device more flexibility in selecting addresses for file system objects which are stored on the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Ethan Miller, John Colgrove, John Hayes
  • WHEELCHAIR SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20210333796
    Abstract: A wheelchair system may include vehicles including docking systems for a wheelchair. The wheelchair and the docking system may be coupled to controllers in communication with one another via a secure communication channel. A user may use a computing device to send signals to and receive signals from the controllers and a data processing system to select the docking system to which the wheelchair may be secured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Andrew Henseleit, John Hayes
  • DYNAMIC COMMUNICATIONS PATHS FOR SENSORS IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20210334151
    Abstract: Dynamic communications paths for sensors in an autonomous vehicle, comprising: detecting a fault associated with a first sensor of a plurality of sensors associated with a same sensing space of the autonomous vehicle; severing, in response to detecting the fault, a first communications path in a switched fabric between a processing unit and the first sensor; and establishing, via the switched fabric, in response to detecting the fault, a second communications path between the processing unit and a second sensor of the plurality of sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, VOLKMAR UHLIG
  • Optimized Inline Deduplication
    Publication number: 20210334206
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer readable medium are described. In a particular embodiment, a storage controller is configured to receive, from a host computing device, a request to perform a bulk array task and in response to receiving the request, store an indication relating old keys of a mapping table to new keys, wherein both the old keys and the new keys correspond to the request. The storage controller is also configured to convey a response indicating completing of the request without prior access of user data and update the mapping table to replace the old keys with the new keys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: JOHN COLGROVE, JOHN HAYES, ETHAN MILLER, FENG WANG
  • FABRIC CARE COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20210324303
    Abstract: A fabric care composition is provided including water; a modified carbohydrate polymer having a weight average molecular weight of <500,000 Daltons and a Kjeldahl nitrogen content corrected for ash and volatiles, TKN, of ?0.5 wt %; and a cleaning surfactant; wherein the modified carbohydrate polymer is a carbohydrate polymer functionalized with quaternary ammonium moieties; wherein the quaternary ammonium moieties on the modified carbohydrate polymer include: trimethyl ammonium moieties having formula (I) and dimethyl(alkyl) ammonium moieties having formula (II) wherein each R is independently selected from a C8-22 alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Emmett M. Partain, III, Jan E. Shulman, Aline Migliore, Yunshen Chen, John Hayes, Asghar A. Peera, Peilin Yang, Mariann Clark, Stephen J. Donovan, Jennifer P. Todd, Cynthia Leslie
  • OPTIMIZED COMMUNICATION PATHWAYS IN A VAST STORAGE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20210329072
    Abstract: A storage system is provided. The storage system includes a plurality of storage units, each having a controller and solid-state storage memory. The storage system further includes one or more first pathways that couple processing devices of a plurality of storage nodes and is configured to couple to a network external to the storage system and one or more second pathways that couple the plurality of storage nodes to the plurality of storage units, wherein the one or more second pathways enable multiprocessing applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: John Hayes, John Colgrove, John D. Davis
  • ERROR HANDLING IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20210316742
    Abstract: Error handling in an autonomous vehicle, including: receiving, by a control system of the autonomous vehicle, from an automation computing system, a remediation sequence comprising a first plurality of operational commands determined to bring the autonomous vehicle to a stop; determining, by the control system, that the error state associated with the autonomous vehicle has been reached; and executing, by the control system, in response to the error state being reached, the first plurality of operational commands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, VOLKMAR UHLIG, AARON CARROLL, RICHARD A. SWETZ, NIMA SOLTANI, TIMOTHY CEREXHE
  • Independent partitions within an array
    Patent number: 11144212
    Abstract: A plurality of storage nodes in a single chassis is provided. The plurality of storage nodes includes a first plurality of storage nodes configured to communicate together as a first storage cluster and a second plurality of storage nodes configured to communicate together as a second storage cluster. Each of the first and second pluralities of storage nodes has nonvolatile solid-state memory for user data storage and each of the first and second pluralities of storage nodes is configured to distribute user data and metadata associated with the user data throughout a respective plurality of storage nodes such that a respective storage cluster maintains ability to read the user data, using erasure coding, despite a loss of one or more of the respective plurality of storage nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: John Hayes, Par Botes, John Colgrove
  • STORAGE SYSTEM COMMUNICATION
    Publication number: 20210314173
    Abstract: A method for authorizing I/O (input/output) commands in a storage cluster is provided. The method includes generating a token responsive to an authority initiating an I/O command, wherein the token is specific to assignment of the authority and a storage node of the storage cluster. The method includes verifying the I/O command using the token, wherein the token includes a signature confirming validity of the token and wherein the token is revocable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: ROBERT LEE, John Hayes
  • Action determination based on redundancy level
    Patent number: 11138082
    Abstract: A plurality of storage nodes is provided. Each of the plurality of storage nodes includes nonvolatile solid-state memory for user data storage. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to distribute the user data and metadata associated with the user data throughout the plurality of storage nodes such that the plurality of storage nodes maintain the ability to read the user data, using erasure coding, despite a loss of two of the plurality of storage nodes. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to initiate an action based on the redundant copies of the metadata, responsive to achieving a level of redundancy for the redundant copies of the metadata. A method for accessing user data in a plurality of storage nodes having nonvolatile solid-state memory is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: John Hayes, John Davis, Brian Gold, Shantanu Gupta, Robert Lee, Igor Ostrovsky, Rusty Sears
  • TRANSMITTING REMOTELY VALUED DATA IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20210306437
    Abstract: Transmitting remotely valued data in an autonomous vehicle, including: acquiring sensor data from a plurality of sensors of the autonomous vehicle, the sensor data comprising a plurality of portions; generating an index for the sensor data; transmitting the index to a server; receiving, based on the index, a value for each portion of the sensor data; and transmitting, based on the value for each portion of the sensor data, the one or more portions of the sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, VOLKMAR UHLIG
  • DEVICE INITIALIZATION BY AN ACCESS-RESTRICTED VIRTUAL MACHINE
    Publication number: 20210303334
    Abstract: Device initialization by an access-restricted virtual machine, including: restricting access by a first operating system to a device during one or more device initialization operations, wherein the first operating system is executing in a first virtual machine supported by a hypervisor; determining, by a second operating system executing in a second virtual machine supported by the hypervisor, one or more modifications attempted by the first operating system to the device; and performing, by the second operating system, the one or more modifications to the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, VOLKMAR UHLIG
  • MODIFYING ACCESS PRIVILEGES TO SECURE RESOURCES IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20210286642
    Abstract: Device security across multiple operating system modalities, including: allocating, by a hypervisor, to a first virtual machine comprising a first operating system, based on the first modality, a first one or more access privileges to one or more resources; allocating, by the hypervisor, to a second virtual machine comprising a second operating system, based on the second modality, a second one or more access privileges to the one or more resources; and modifying, by the hypervisor, the second one or more access privileges in response to a change in an execution state of the first virtual machine
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, VOLKMAR UHLIG
  • Copying data without accessing the data
    Patent number: 11099769
    Abstract: A system and method for performing copy offload operations. When a copy offload operation from a first volume (pointing to a first medium) to a second volume (pointing to a second medium) is requested, the copy offload operation is performed without accessing the data being copied. A third medium is created, and the first medium is recorded as the underlying medium of the third medium. The first volume is re-pointed to the third medium. Also, a fourth medium is created, the second volume is re-pointed to the fourth medium, and the second medium is recorded as the underlying medium of the targeted range of the fourth medium. All other ranges of the fourth medium have the second medium as their underlying medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: John Colgrove, Ethan Miller, John Hayes, Cary Sandvig, Christopher Golden, Jianting Cao, Grigori Inozemtsev
  • Value-based transmission in an autonomous vehicle
    Patent number: 11095741
    Abstract: Value-based data transmission in an autonomous vehicle may include acquiring sensor data from a plurality of sensors of the autonomous vehicle, the sensor data comprising a plurality of portions; determining, for each portion of the sensor data, a value; determining, based on the values for the sensor data, an upload policy; and transmitting, based on the upload policy, one or more portions of the sensor data to a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: GHOST LOCOMOTION INC.
    Inventors: John Hayes, Volkmar Uhlig
  • Addressable non-volatile random access memory
    Patent number: 11079962
    Abstract: A non-volatile solid-state storage is provided. The non-volatile solid state storage includes a non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) addressable by a processor external to the non-volatile solid state storage. The NVRAM is configured to store user data and metadata relating to the user data. The non-volatile solid state storage includes a flash memory addressable by the processor. The flash memory is configured to store the user data responsive to the processor directing transfer of the user data from the NVRAM to the flash memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: John Davis, John Hayes, Brian Gold, Shantanu Gupta, Zhangxi Tan
  • Recovering error corrected data
    Patent number: 11080154
    Abstract: A plurality of storage nodes within a single chassis is provided. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to communicate together as a storage cluster. The plurality of storage nodes has a non-volatile solid-state storage for user data storage. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to distribute the user data and metadata associated with the user data throughout the plurality of storage nodes, with erasure coding of the user data. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to recover from failure of two of the plurality of storage nodes by applying the erasure coding to the user data from a remainder of the plurality of storage nodes. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to detect an error and engage in an error recovery via one of a processor of one of the plurality of storage nodes, a processor of the non-volatile solid state storage, or the flash memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Davis, John Hayes, Hari Kannan, Nenad Miladinovic, Zhangxi Tan
  • Device operation across multiple operating system modalities
    Patent number: 11068295
    Abstract: Device operation across multiple operating system modalities, including: performing, by a first operating system, one or more device initialization operations for a device; determining that the device is in an initialized state; and performing, by a second operating system, one or more device operations of the device in the initialized state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Ghost Locomotion Inc.
    Inventors: John Hayes, Volkmar Uhlig
  • Proactively rebuilding data in a storage cluster
    Patent number: 11068363
    Abstract: A method for proactively rebuilding user data in a plurality of storage nodes of a storage cluster in a single chassis is provided. The method includes distributing user data and metadata throughout the plurality of storage nodes such that the plurality of storage nodes can read the user data, using erasure coding, despite loss of two of the plurality of storage nodes. The method includes determining to rebuild the user data for one of the plurality of storage nodes in the absences of an error condition. The method includes rebuilding the user data for the one of the plurality of storage nodes. A plurality of storage nodes within a single chassis that can proactively rebuild the user data stored within the storage nodes is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: John Hayes, John Colgrove, Robert Lee, Joshua Robinson, Rusty Sears