Patents by Inventor Matthew D. Hambrick

Matthew D. Hambrick 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).

  • Dynamic detection and reduction of unaligned I/O operations
    Patent number: 8880842
    Abstract: Detection and reduction of unaligned input/output (“I/O”) requests is implemented by a storage server determining an alignment value for data stored by the server within a storage system on behalf of a first client, writing the alignment value to a portion of the volume that stores the data for the first client, but not to a portion of the volume that stores data for a second client, and changing a location of data within the portion of the volume that stores the data for the first client, but not a location of data in the portion of the volume that stores data for the second client, to an alignment corresponding to the alignment value. The alignment value is applied to I/O requests directed to the portion of the volume that stores the data blocks for the first client after the location of the data blocks has been changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Rickard E. Faith, Matthew D. Hambrick, Matti A. Vanninen
  • DYNAMIC DETECTION AND REDUCTION OF UNALIGNED I/O OPERATIONS
    Publication number: 20140156779
    Abstract: Detection and reduction of unaligned input/output (“I/O”) requests is implemented by a storage server determining an alignment value for data stored by the server within a storage system on behalf of a first client, writing the alignment value to a portion of the volume that stores the data for the first client, but not to a portion of the volume that stores data for a second client, and changing a location of data within the portion of the volume that stores the data for the first client, but not a location of data in the portion of the volume that stores data for the second client, to an alignment corresponding to the alignment value. The alignment value is applied to I/O requests directed to the portion of the volume that stores the data blocks for the first client after the location of the data blocks has been changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventors: Rickard E. Faith, Matthew D. Hambrick, Matti A. Vanninen
  • Dynamic detection and reduction of unaligned I/O operations
    Patent number: 8484433
    Abstract: Detection and reduction of unaligned input/output (“I/O”) requests is implemented by a storage server determining an alignment value for data stored by the server within a storage system on behalf of a first client, writing the alignment value to a portion of the volume that stores the data for the first client, but not to a portion of the volume that stores data for a second client, and changing a location of data within the portion of the volume that stores the data for the first client, but not a location of data in the portion of the volume that stores data for the second client, to an alignment corresponding to the alignment value. The alignment value is applied to I/O requests directed to the portion of the volume that stores the data blocks for the first client after the location of the data blocks has been changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Rickard E. Faith, Matthew D. Hambrick, Matti A. Vanninen
  • DYNAMIC DETECTION AND REDUCTION OF UNALIGNED I/O OPERATIONS
    Publication number: 20120131286
    Abstract: Detection and reduction of unaligned input/output (“I/O”) requests is implemented by a storage server determining an alignment value for data stored by the server within a storage system on behalf of a first client, writing the alignment value to a portion of the volume that stores the data for the first client, but not to a portion of the volume that stores data for a second client, and changing a location of data within the portion of the volume that stores the data for the first client, but not a location of data in the portion of the volume that stores data for the second client, to an alignment corresponding to the alignment value. The alignment value is applied to I/O requests directed to the portion of the volume that stores the data blocks for the first client after the location of the data blocks has been changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Rickard E. Faith, Matthew D. Hambrick, Matti A. Vanninen