Patents by Inventor Linda D. Edwards

Linda D. Edwards 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).

  • Remote reconfiguration system
    Patent number: 7269641
    Abstract: A reconfiguration system, and associated methods, for remotely reconfiguring a client's date storage system. The system includes a storage management host communicatively linked with a reconfiguration center. The storage management host is installed at a customer's site within a data storage system, which includes at least one data storage subsystem in a first configuration with a one or more master data storage units and hosts. The storage management host may be a terminal server that provides both Ethernet access to a local area network connected to the master storage units and serial communication with the master storage units. The reconfiguration center receives a reconfiguration request for the client data storage system and creates and transmits a logical implementation of a second configuration. The client data storage system operates to process the logical implementation to configure the data storage subsystem in the second configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Tracy D. Powers, Madeleine M. Slattery, Linda D. Edwards, Anthony J. Mullen
  • Remote reconfiguration system
    Publication number: 20020026549
    Abstract: A reconfiguration system, and associated methods, for remotely reconfiguring a client's date storage system. The system includes a storage management host communicatively linked with a reconfiguration center. The storage management host is installed at a customer's site within a data storage system, which includes at least one data storage subsystem in a first configuration with a one or more master data storage units and hosts. The storage management host may be a terminal server that provides both Ethernet access to a local area network connected to the master storage units and serial communication with the master storage units. The reconfiguration center receives a reconfiguration request for the client data storage system and creates and transmits a logical implementation of a second configuration. The client data storage system operates to process the logical implementation to configure the data storage subsystem in the second configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Inventors: Tracy D. Powers, Madeleine M. Slattery, Linda D. Edwards, Anthony J. Mullen