Patents by Inventor Peter Adam Smith

Peter Adam Smith 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 trouble shooting performance issues in networked storage systems
    Patent number: 9542115
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing resources in a storage system are provided. The methods include tracking performance of a plurality of resources used for reading and writing information at storage devices in a networked storage system, each resource represented by a logical object in a hierarchical structure and performance data associated with each logical object is maintained by a processor executing a management application out of a memory device; identifying a root object associated with a resource having a performance issue as indicated by a threshold violation for the resource; selecting a related object associated with a resource similar to the resource of the root object by the management application for comparing performance data of the root object with the related object; and using the comparison to verify that the root object is a root cause of the performance issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Curtis Hrischuk, David Gilbert Roberts, Ulhas Pai, Kushagra Mittal, Peter Adam Smith, Purushottam Jha
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TROUBLE SHOOTING PERFORMANCE ISSUES IN NETWORKED STORAGE SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20160378389
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing resources in a storage system are provided. The methods include tracking performance of a plurality of resources used for reading and writing information at storage devices in a networked storage system, each resource represented by a logical object in a hierarchical structure and performance data associated with each logical object is maintained by a processor executing a management application out of a memory device; identifying a root object associated with a resource having a performance issue as indicated by a threshold violation for the resource; selecting a related object associated with a resource similar to the resource of the root object by the management application for comparing performance data of the root object with the related object; and using the comparison to verify that the root object is a root cause of the performance issue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Curtis Hrischuk, David Gilbert Roberts, Ulhas Pai, Kushagra Mittal, Peter Adam Smith, Purushottam Jha