Patents by Inventor Michael D. Barrell

Michael D. Barrell 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).

  • Read ahead management in a multi-stream workload
    Patent number: 10621096
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide a method and system for managing execution of commands for a storage device, the method comprising identifying individual streams processing read ahead operations in a storage controller, determining an amount of read ahead data that each individual stream is processing in the read ahead operations, determining a total amount of read cache available for the storage controller, and determining a total amount of read ahead data that all the individual streams are processing in the read ahead operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Zachary D. Traut, Michael D. Barrell
  • READ AHEAD MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-STREAM WORKLOAD
    Publication number: 20180067860
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide a method and system for managing execution of commands for a storage device, the method comprising identifying individual streams processing read ahead operations in a storage controller, determining an amount of read ahead data that each individual stream is processing in the read ahead operations, determining a total amount of read cache available for the storage controller, and determining a total amount of read ahead data that all the individual streams are processing in the read ahead operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Zachary D. Traut, Michael D. Barrell