Patents by Inventor Michael Scott Ryan

Michael Scott Ryan 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 apparatus for multiple disk drive access in a multi-processor/multi-disk drive system
    Patent number: 6530002
    Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for providing access between the processors and the mass storage devices of a computer system wherein an interprocessor bus interconnects the processors and adapters are connected from the interprocessor bus for communication between the processors and the mass storage devices and the system includes binding utility for communicating with the processors and the adapters to generate pairings between the processors and the adapters. A switch is connected between the adapters and the mass storage devices for connecting each adapter to each mass storage device and a binding mapper operates with the binding utility at each binding of a processor/adapter pair to enumerate the mass storage devices with which a processor/adapter pair is to communicate and determines a mass storage identifier by which the processor identifies the mass storage device. An address mapper references the binding mapper to construct and store an address map having processor set for each mass storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Inventors: Brian James Martin, George Garfield Peters, Michael Scott Ryan
  • Method and apparatus for multiple disk drive access in a multi-processor/multi-disk drive system
    Patent number: 6295587
    Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for providing access between the processors and the mass storage devices of a computer system wherein an interprocessor bus interconnects the processors and adapters are connected from the interprocessor bus for communication between the processors and the mass storage devices and the system includes binding utility for communicating with the processors and the adapters to generate pairings between the processors and the adapters. A switch is connected between the adapters and the mass storage devices for connecting each adapter to each mass storage device and a binding mapper operates with the binding utility at each binding of a processor/adapter pair to enumerate the mass storage devices with which a processor/adapter pair is to communicate and determines a mass storage identifier by which the processor identifies the mass storage device. An address mapper references the binding mapper to construct and store an address map having processor set for each mass storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Brian James Martin, George Garfield Peters, Michael Scott Ryan