Patents by Inventor Josephn M. Swingler

Josephn M. Swingler 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).

  • Maintaining reserved free space at the end of a physical volume for creating new segments of segmented logical volumes in the reserved free space
    Patent number: 8055839
    Abstract: A storage manager application implemented in a first computational device maintains a virtual logical volume having a plurality of segments created by the storage manager application, wherein space is reserved at the end of a physical volume corresponding to the virtual logical volume, and wherein the physical volume comprises a linear storage medium. A request is received to write data, at the first computational device, from a second computational device. The data is written to the reserved space, wherein the writing of the data causes new segments to be created in the reserved space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Tad Kishi, Josephn M. Swingler