Patents by Inventor Kenneth Vineleaf

Kenneth Vineleaf 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).

  • Application programming interface simulator for a data storage system
    Patent number: 7478026
    Abstract: Described are techniques for simulation of a data storage system configuration. The simulation state reflects the data storage system configuration in accordance with an application programming interface (API) model. API calls result in reading existing data storage system configuration data and/or modifying the configuration data by execution of one or more low level calls. A daemon may operate in a simulation mode in which the low level calls are simulated rather than resulting in communications with a data storage system when operating in a non-simulation mode. A low level cache is used to store simulated values returned from the data storage system microcode. A high level cache is used to store API call return data. A seed file is used to initialize the simulation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Yale Kushner, Jonathan I. Krasner, Kenneth Vineleaf, Philip E. Tamer, James H. Torrey, Daryl Kinney, John D. Sullivan