Patents by Inventor Matthew Lester HANHAM

Matthew Lester HANHAM 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).

  • Method and an apparatus, and related computer-program products, for managing access request to one or more file systems
    Patent number: 10277678
    Abstract: The apparatus includes: a hardware-side processing section including one or more programmable hardware-implemented chips configured to process request packets, which are received from host computers and relate to access requests to one or more file systems managed by the apparatus, and to generate response packets for the processed request packets; and a software-side processing section including one or more CPUs configured to execute decoding of requests packets sent from a host computer based on one or more computer programs stored in a memory of the software-side; wherein at least one programmable hardware-implemented chip of the hardware-side processing section is configured to process a credit request included in a received request packet, in particular without involvement of the software-side processing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Data Systems Engineering UK Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Peter Royal, Daniel James Nigel Picken, Jonathan Soon Yew Teh, Simon Crosland, Matthew Lester Hanham, Raymond Christopher Brown
  • METHOD AND AN APPARATUS, AND RELATED COMPUTER-PROGRAM PRODUCTS, FOR MANAGING ACCESS REQUEST TO ONE OR MORE FILE SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20170070575
    Abstract: The apparatus includes: a hardware-side processing section including one or more programmable hardware-implemented chips configured to process request packets, which are received from host computers and relate to access requests to one or more file systems managed by the apparatus, and to generate response packets for the processed request packets; and a software-side processing section including one or more CPUs configured to execute decoding of requests packets sent from a host computer based on one or more computer programs stored in a memory of the software-side; wherein at least one programmable hardware-implemented chip of the hardware-side processing section is configured to process a credit request included in a received request packet, in particular without involvement of the hardware-side processing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Andrew Peter ROYAL, Daniel James Nigel PICKEN, Jonathan Soon Yew TEH, Simon CROSLAND, Matthew Lester HANHAM, Raymond Christopher BROWN