Patents by Inventor Koji Hosogi

Koji Hosogi 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).

  • Publication number: 20230153009
    Abstract: A first storage system compresses data relating to read and write by a primary site and stores the data in a first physical volume. A second storage system compresses data relating to read and write by a secondary site and stores the data in a second physical volume. When performing replication for transferring the data stored in the first physical volume of the first storage system to the second storage system and storing the data in the second physical volume, the first storage system and the second storage system determine, based on a compression scheme executable by the first storage system and a compression scheme executable by the second storage system, a compression scheme to be applied to transfer target data and transfer the transfer target data compressed by the determined compression scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji HOSOGI, Akira DEGUCHI, Takaki MATSUSHITA
  • Patent number: 11561721
    Abstract: A first storage system compresses data relating to read and write by a primary site and stores the data in a first physical volume. A second storage system compresses data relating to read and write by a secondary site and stores the data in a second physical volume. When performing replication for transferring the data stored in the first physical volume of the first storage system to the second storage system and storing the data in the second physical volume, the first storage system and the second storage system determine, based on a compression scheme executable by the first storage system and a compression scheme executable by the second storage system, a compression scheme to be applied to transfer target data and transfer the transfer target data compressed by the determined compression scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hosogi, Akira Deguchi, Takaki Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20230014121
    Abstract: A first storage system compresses data relating to read and write by a primary site and stores the data in a first physical volume. A second storage system compresses data relating to read and write by a secondary site and stores the data in a second physical volume. When performing replication for transferring the data stored in the first physical volume of the first storage system to the second storage system and storing the data in the second physical volume, the first storage system and the second storage system determine, based on a compression scheme executable by the first storage system and a compression scheme executable by the second storage system, a compression scheme to be applied to transfer target data and transfer the transfer target data compressed by the determined compression scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji HOSOGI, Akira DEGUCHI, Takaki MATSUSHITA
  • Patent number: 11330056
    Abstract: A possible performance bottleneck associated with insufficient network bands is mitigated to allow improvement of access performance of a storage system. A storage system includes a first node with a storage medium of storage and a plurality of second nodes each with a controller function for the storage, and is communicatively connected to a host providing an access request to the storage. One of the plurality of second nodes is determined to be a node to which a controller function executing access processing on the storage is assigned on the basis of a first amount of data transfer between the second node and the host and a second amount of data transfer between the second node and the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shugo Ogawa, Ryosuke Tatsumi, Yoshinori Ohira, Koji Hosogi
  • Patent number: 11327653
    Abstract: A storage system for continuing I/O without affecting drive box addition to a host computer includes: a plurality of drive boxes for connecting to a computer device that transmits commands for data reads or writes; and a storage controller connected to the drive boxes. A first drive box provides a first storage region to the computer device. The storage controller manages correspondence between the first storage region and a physical storage region of the drives constituting the first storage region. The first drive box receives a command for the first storage region from the computer device and transfers the command to the storage controller. The storage controller generates a data transfer command including a data storage destination based on the address management table, and transfers the command to the first drive box. The first drive box then transfers the data transfer command to the second drive box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Yokoi, Hirotoshi Akaike, Ryosuke Tatsumi, Koji Hosogi, Akira Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11301159
    Abstract: A storage system includes at least one drive chassis connected to at least one host computer via a first network, and a storage controller connected to the drive chassis, in which the storage controller instructs the drive chassis to create a logical volume, and the drive chassis creates a logical volume according to an instruction from the storage controller, provides a storage area of the storage system to the host computer, and receives an IO command from the host computer to the storage area of the storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Akaike, Koji Hosogi, Norio Shimozono, Sadahiro Sugimoto, Nobuhiro Yokoi, Ryosuke Tatsumi
  • Patent number: 11201788
    Abstract: In a distributed computing system, a bottleneck for performance of a network is avoided and a high-performance scalable resource management function is achieved. The distributed computing system includes a plurality of components connected to each other via a network. Each of the components includes a plurality of compute nodes, a plurality of drive casings, and a plurality of storage devices. The network includes a plurality of network switches and is configured in layers. When a storage region is to be allocated to a compute node among the compute nodes, a managing unit selects, from the storage devices, a storage device related to the storage region to be allocated or selects, from the drives, a drive casing related to the storage region to be allocated, based on a network distance between two of the compute node, the storage device, and the drive casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Tatsumi, Akira Yamamoto, Shugo Ogawa, Yoshinori Ohira, Koji Hosogi
  • Publication number: 20210243082
    Abstract: In a distributed computing system, a bottleneck for performance of a network is avoided and a high-performance scalable resource management function is achieved. The distributed computing system includes a plurality of components connected to each other via a network. Each of the components includes a plurality of compute nodes, a plurality of drive casings, and a plurality of storage devices. The network includes a plurality of network switches and is configured in layers. When a storage region is to be allocated to a compute node among the compute nodes, a managing unit selects, from the storage devices, a storage device related to the storage region to be allocated or selects, from the drives, a drive casing related to the storage region to be allocated, based on a network distance between two of the compute node, the storage device, and the drive casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Ryosuke TATSUMI, Akira YAMAMOTO, Shugo OGAWA, Yoshinori OHIRA, Koji HOSOGI
  • Publication number: 20210194959
    Abstract: A possible performance bottleneck associated with insufficient network bands is mitigated to allow improvement of access performance of a storage system. A storage system includes a first node with a storage medium of storage and a plurality of second nodes each with a controller function for the storage, and is communicatively connected to a host providing an access request to the storage. One of the plurality of second nodes is determined to be a node to which a controller function executing access processing on the storage is assigned on the basis of a first amount of data transfer between the second node and the host and a second amount of data transfer between the second node and the first node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Shugo OGAWA, Ryosuke TATSUMI, Yoshinori OHIRA, Koji HOSOGI
  • Publication number: 20210042032
    Abstract: A storage system for continuing I/O without affecting drive box addition to a host computer includes: a plurality of drive boxes for connecting to a computer device that transmits commands for data reads or writes; and a storage controller connected to the drive boxes. A first drive box provides a first storage region to the computer device. The storage controller manages correspondence between the first storage region and a physical storage region of the drives constituting the first storage region. The first drive box receives a command for the first storage region from the computer device and transfers the command to the storage controller. The storage controller generates a data transfer command including a data storage destination based on the address management table, and transfers the command to the first drive box. The first drive box then transfers the data transfer command to the second drive box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro YOKOI, Hirotoshi AKAIKE, Ryosuke TATSUMI, Koji HOSOGI, Akira YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10884630
    Abstract: A storage system includes a controller and a nonvolatile memory drive, in which the controller transmits a write request that designates a volume identifier of a volume to be provided to a host, to the nonvolatile memory drive; the nonvolatile memory drive exclusively allocates a free block selected from a plurality of blocks to the volume identifier; write data of the write request is written to the free block; when the write data is update write data, an area that stores data to be updated is changed to an invalid data area; and after valid data of a block including the invalid data area is migrated to another block, all data of the block including the invalid data area is erased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hosogi, Naoya Okada, Akifumi Suzuki, Hideyuki Koseki, Masahiro Tsuruya
  • Patent number: 10860577
    Abstract: An intermediate device is disposed between a host and a search target. Search requests of m-multiplicity (requests involving a data transfer amount that is unknown to the host) for at least one among n-processes (n is an integer equal to or more than 1) to be executed by the host are issued as requests from the host to the intermediate device. A temporary area associated with the search requests is allocated in the host. For each of the search requests, the intermediate device recognizes a hit data volume in accordance with the search request within a search scope. For each of the search, the hit data is written in an area of the temporary area that corresponds to a write destination address. The write destination address is updated for each of the search requests on the basis of the recognized hit data volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Hosogi, Akifumi Suzuki, Kazuyoshi Serizawa, Akira Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20200379668
    Abstract: A storage system includes at least one drive chassis connected to at least one host computer via a first network, and a storage controller connected to the drive chassis, in which the storage controller instructs the drive chassis to create a logical volume, and the drive chassis creates a logical volume according to an instruction from the storage controller, provides a storage area of the storage system to the host computer, and receives an IO command from the host computer to the storage area of the storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Hirotoshi AKAIKE, Koji HOSOGI, Norio SHIMOZONO, Sadahiro SUGIMOTO, Nobuhiro YOKOI
  • Publication number: 20200301599
    Abstract: A storage system includes at least one drive chassis connected to at least one host computer via a first network, and a storage controller connected to the drive chassis, in which the storage controller instructs the drive chassis to create a logical volume, and the drive chassis creates a logical volume according to an instruction from the storage controller, provides a storage area of the storage system to the host computer, and receives an IO command from the host computer to the storage area of the storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Hirotoshi AKAIKE, Koji HOSOGI, Norio SHIMOZONO, Sadahiro SUGIMOTO, Nobuhiro YOKOI
  • Patent number: 10761764
    Abstract: A storage system includes at least one drive chassis connected to at least one host computer via a first network, and a storage controller connected to the drive chassis, in which the storage controller instructs the drive chassis to create a logical volume, and the drive chassis creates a logical volume according to an instruction from the storage controller, provides a storage area of the storage system to the host computer, and receives an IO command from the host computer to the storage area of the storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Akaike, Koji Hosogi, Norio Shimozono, Sadahiro Sugimoto, Nobuhiro Yokoi
  • Patent number: 10620868
    Abstract: A storage system includes at least one drive chassis connected to at least one host computer via a first network, and a storage controller connected to the drive chassis, in which the storage controller instructs the drive chassis to create a logical volume, and the drive chassis creates a logical volume according to an instruction from the storage controller, provides a storage area of the storage system to the host computer, and receives an IO command from the host computer to the storage area of the storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Akaike, Koji Hosogi, Norio Shimozono, Sadahiro Sugimoto, Nobuhiro Yokoi
  • Publication number: 20190361611
    Abstract: A storage system includes a controller and a nonvolatile memory drive, in which the controller transmits a write request that designates a volume identifier of a volume to be provided to a host, to the nonvolatile memory drive; the nonvolatile memory drive exclusively allocates a free block selected from a plurality of blocks to the volume identifier; write data of the write request is written to the free block; when the write data is update write data, an area that stores data to be updated is changed to an invalid data area; and after valid data of a block including the invalid data area is migrated to another block, all data of the block including the invalid data area is erased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Koji HOSOGI, Naoya OKADA, Akifumi SUZUKI, Hideyuki KOSEKI, Masahiro TSURUYA
  • Publication number: 20190196746
    Abstract: An information processing device and a method having high processing performance are proposed. Provided is an information processing device mounted with an accelerator that executes predetermined processing on data, the information processing device including: a storage device configured to store data; and a host control unit configured to request the accelerator to execute the predetermined processing included in a task requested from an outside, in which the data is compressed and stored in the storage device, and in which the accelerator: reads the data to be processed among the data stored in the storage device and executes the predetermined processing on the data while decompressing the read data in response to a request from the host control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhisa FUJIMOTO, Koji HOSOGI, Toshiyuki ARITSUKA, Kazushi NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180239799
    Abstract: An intermediate device is disposed between a host and a search target. Search requests of m-multiplicity (requests involving a data transfer amount that is unknown to the host) for at least one among n-processes (n is an integer equal to or more than 1) to be executed by the host are issued as requests from the host to the intermediate device. A temporary area associated with the search requests is allocated in the host. For each of the search requests, the intermediate device recognizes a hit data volume in accordance with the search request within a search scope. For each of the search, the hit data is written in an area of the temporary area that corresponds to a write destination address. The write destination address is updated for each of the search requests on the basis of the recognized hit data volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji HOSOGI, Akifumi SUZUKI, Kazuyoshi SERIZAWA, Akira YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170286507
    Abstract: A database search system receives a command and searches for data, which meets a search condition specified on the basis of the received command, in a whole database which is a database as an entity. The database search system generates a virtual database which is a list of address pointers to the found data and stores the generated virtual database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji HOSOGI, Mitsuhiro OKADA, Akifumi SUZUKI, Shimpei NOMURA, Kazuhisa FUJIMOTO, Satoru WATANABE, Yoshiki KUROKAWA, Yoshitaka TSUJIMOTO