Patents by Inventor John V. Harvey

John V. Harvey 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).

  • Resizable cache system and method
    Patent number: 10817429
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for freeing up cache space includes identifying a portion of cache space for removal from a cache system, thus defining a cache portion to be removed, and ceasing to promote the cache portion to be removed. Data that needs to be relocated within the cache portion to be removed is identified, thus identifying flushable data. The flushable data is relocated to a backend storage system associated with the cache portion to be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company, LLC
    Inventors: Xinlei Xu, Xiongcheng Li, John V. Harvey, Lifeng Yang, Jian Gao
  • Write reduction system and method
    Patent number: 10152424
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for reducing write operations on a flash-based cache memory system includes writing user data to a flash-based cache memory system. Initial status metadata concerning the user data is written to a RAM-based memory system. The user data is written to a backend storage system. Mapping metadata concerning the user data is written to the flash-based cache memory system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Xinlei Xu, Charles Hopkins, John V. Harvey, Xiongcheng Li, Jian Gao