Patents by Inventor John Fabrizio Bevilacqua

John Fabrizio Bevilacqua 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).

  • Stack isolation by a storage network switch
    Patent number: 9767311
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for stack isolation in a storage system including a storage network switch and multiple storage sub-systems (e.g., storage stacks). The storage network switch includes multiple ports and at least one of the ports is configured to dynamically connect to a device that can be either a storage controller device or a storage sub-system. The technology can receive an identification message indicating that a device is connected to a port of a storage network switch, determine based on the identification message at the storage network switch whether the device is a storage controller device or a storage sub-system, and transfer messages between the ports of the storage network switch such that the storage network switch prevents communications between storage sub-systems connected to the storage network switch, but allows communications between the storage sub-systems and storage controller devices connected to the storage network switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: James Lin, Wayne Booth, Radek Aster, John Fabrizio Bevilacqua, Timothy Vincent Lee
  • STACK ISOLATION BY A STORAGE NETWORK SWITCH
    Publication number: 20150120779
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for stack isolation in a storage system including a storage network switch and multiple storage sub-systems (e.g., storage stacks). The storage network switch includes multiple ports and at least one of the ports is configured to dynamically connect to a device that can be either a storage controller device or a storage sub-system. The technology can receive an identification message indicating that a device is connected to a port of a storage network switch, determine based on the identification message at the storage network switch whether the device is a storage controller device or a storage sub-system, and transfer messages between the ports of the storage network switch such that the storage network switch prevents communications between storage sub-systems connected to the storage network switch, but allows communications between the storage sub-systems and storage controller devices connected to the storage network switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: James Lin, Wayne Booth, Radek Aster, John Fabrizio Bevilacqua, Timothy Vincent Lee