Patents by Inventor Markus Kirchberg

Markus Kirchberg 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).

  • BLOCK LEVEL STORAGE
    Publication number: 20140380007
    Abstract: A storage system comprises a front-end processing subsystem to receive block level storage requests and a plurality of back-end storage nodes coupled to the front-end subsystem. Each of the back-end storage nodes comprises a storage device and a block manager to create, read, update and delete data blocks on the storage device. The front-end processing subsystem maintains a plurality of block reference data structures that are usable by the front-end processing subsystem to access the back-end data storage nodes to provide balancing, redundancy, and scalability to the storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chun-Hui Suen, Markus Kirchberg, Bu Sung Lee