Patents by Inventor Norman Kevin Elrod

Norman Kevin Elrod 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).

  • Methods and systems for improved virtual data storage management
    Patent number: 7769931
    Abstract: The capacity of a data storage management system may be increased with disclosed methods and systems. One method may increase the capacity of a data storage management system that polls a plurality of monitored elements in a data storage environment. The method includes creating a flag for a poll request and associating a first value for the flag with a first subset of the plurality of monitored elements. The method further includes interpreting a first poll request that includes the first value for the flag as directed to the first subset and interpreting a second poll request that does not include the first value for the flag as not directed to the first subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond Anthony Angelone, Eric Duen, Karunaker Chinthapatla, Norman Kevin Elrod, Daniel F. Ozone, Vinh Herring Phan, Ritesh Shukla