Patents by Inventor Norman Iwao Hanami

Norman Iwao Hanami 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 disk caching for an intermediary controller
    Patent number: 6865642
    Abstract: A disk caching method for an intermediary controller is disclosed. Requests for data blocks are made and then disk caching is performed according to a most expedient cache method. The disk caching method may be performed by asynchronously requesting a data record from both a intermediary controller disk storage and from a intermediary controller cache and using a first received copy of the data record, the first received copy being a copy received first from the intermediary controller disk storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Fairclough Day, III, Douglas William Dewey, Norman Iwao Hanami, Dean Lee Hanson, David Allan Pease
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISK CACHING FOR AN INTERMEDIARY CONTROLLER
    Publication number: 20010011325
    Abstract: A disk caching method for an intermediary controller is disclosed. Requests for data blocks are made and then disk caching is performed according to a most expedient cache method. The disk caching method may be performed by asynchronously requesting a data record from both a intermediary controller disk storage and from a intermediary controller cache and using a first received copy of the data record, the first received copy being a copy received first from the intermediary controller disk storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 1998
    Publication date: August 2, 2001
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: KENNETH FAIRCLOUGH DAY III, DOUGLAS WILLIAM DEWEY, NORMAN IWAO HANAMI, DEAN LEE HANSON, DAVID ALLAN PEASE