Patents by Inventor Joseph Russell Blount

Joseph Russell Blount 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).

  • Methods and systems for using a write cache in a storage system
    Patent number: 10339017
    Abstract: Methods and systems for storing data at a storage device of a storage system are provided. The data is first temporarily stored at a first write cache and an input/output request for a persistence storage device used as a second write cache is generated, when an I/O request size including the received data has reached a threshold value. The data from the first cache is transferred to the persistence storage device and a recovery control block with a location of the data stored at the persistence storage device is updated. An entry is added to a linked list that is used to track valid data stored at the persistence storage device and then the data is transferred from the persistence storage device to the storage device of the storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: William Patrick Delaney, Joseph Russell Blount, Rodney A. DeKoning
  • Methods and Systems for Using a Write Cache in a Storage System
    Publication number: 20170091054
    Abstract: Methods and systems for storing data at a storage device of a storage system are provided. The data is first temporarily stored at a first write cache and an input/output request for a persistence storage device used as a second write cache is generated, when an I/O request size including the received data has reached a threshold value. The data from the first cache is transferred to the persistence storage device and a recovery control block with a location of the data stored at the persistence storage device is updated. An entry is added to a linked list that is used to track valid data stored at the persistence storage device and then the data is transferred from the persistence storage device to the storage device of the storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: William Patrick Delaney, Joseph Russell Blount, Rodney A. DeKoning
  • Methods and systems for using a write cache in a storage system
    Patent number: 9489149
    Abstract: Methods and systems for storing data at a storage device of a storage system are provided. The data is first temporarily stored at a first write cache and an input/output request for a persistence storage device used as a second write cache is generated, when an I/O request size including the received data has reached a threshold value. The data from the first cache is transferred to the persistence storage device and a recovery control block with a location of the data stored at the persistence storage device is updated. An entry is added to a linked list that is used to track valid data stored at the persistence storage device and then the data is transferred from the persistence storage device to the storage device of the storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: William Patrick Delaney, Joseph Russell Blount, Rodney A. DeKoning
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USING A WRITE CACHE IN A STORAGE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150363285
    Abstract: Methods and systems for storing data at a storage device of a storage system are provided. The data is first temporarily stored at a first write cache and an input/output request for a persistence storage device used as a second write cache is generated, when an I/O request size including the received data has reached a threshold value. The data from the first cache is transferred to the persistence storage device and a recovery control block with a location of the data stored at the persistence storage device is updated. An entry is added to a linked list that is used to track valid data stored at the persistence storage device and then the data is transferred from the persistence storage device to the storage device of the storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: William Patrick Delaney, Joseph Russell Blount, Rodney A. DeKoning