Patents by Inventor Lluis Vilanova

Lluis Vilanova 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).

  • Logical-to-physical block mapping inside the disk controller: accessing data objects without operating system intervention
    Patent number: 10331591
    Abstract: Data access in a storage device managed by a storage controller is carried out by receiving in the storage controller offsets in objects directly from a plurality of requesting entities of a computer system. The computer controls a mapping mechanism operated by the storage controller, wherein the mapping mechanism relates the offsets in the objects into physical addresses of the data on the storage device, and wherein the data is accessed at the physical addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LTD.
    Inventors: Yoav Etsion, Yonatan Gottesman, Lluis Vilanova
  • LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL BLOCK MAPPING INSIDE THE DISK CONTROLLER: ACCESSING DATA OBJECTS WITHOUT OPERATING SYSTEM INTERVENTION
    Publication number: 20160098367
    Abstract: Data access in a storage device managed by a storage controller is carried out by receiving in the storage controller offsets in objects directly from a plurality of requesting entities of a computer system. The computer controls a mapping mechanism operated by the storage controller, wherein the mapping mechanism relates the offsets in the objects into physical addresses of the data on the storage device, and wherein the data is accessed at the physical addresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Yoav Etsion, Yonatan Gottesman, Lluis Vilanova