Patents by Inventor Ken John McDonell

Ken John McDonell 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).

  • Method for Empirically Determining a Qualified Bandwidth of File Storage for a Shared Filed System
    Publication number: 20100017545
    Abstract: A method for preventing oversubscription to a file storage by multiple processes, whether such processes are operating on one node with directly attached storage or on several nodes of a computing cluster sharing a storage area network. Processes or nodes issue requests for bandwidth reservations to a controller daemon. The controller daemon maintains records of all existing bandwidth reservations and ensures that new reservations are granted only if a qualified bandwidth of the file storage will not be exceeded. The qualified bandwidth is empirically determined to take into account installation specific hardware configurations, workloads, and quality of service requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Andrew Joseph Alexander Gildfind, Ken John McDonell
  • Method for empirically determining a qualified bandwidth of file storage for a shared filed system
    Patent number: 7590775
    Abstract: A method for preventing oversubscription to a file storage by multiple processes, whether such processes are operating on one node with directly attached storage or on several nodes of a computing cluster sharing a storage area network. Processes or nodes issue requests for bandwidth reservations to a controller daemon. The controller daemon maintains records of all existing bandwidth reservations and ensures that new reservations are granted only if a qualified bandwidth of the file storage will not be exceeded. The qualified bandwidth is empirically determined to take into account installation specific hardware configurations, workloads, and quality of service requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Inventors: Andrew Joseph Alexander Gildfind, Ken John McDonell