Patents by Inventor Pranay Singh

Pranay Singh 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).

  • Technique for integrating VTL tape pools with MTree quotas
    Patent number: 9063842
    Abstract: A system and method for enforcing quotas in a data storage system. In one embodiment, a method includes the operations of receiving a first request that defines a storage quota for a pool of virtual tapes that is allocated to a user entity; defining the storage quota for the pool of virtual tapes according to the request, wherein the defined storage quota limits a quantity of data that the user entity can store in physical storage of the storage system; receiving a second request from the user entity to write data to the virtual tape of the pool of virtual tapes; and returning a first status that indicates the data to be written from the second request cannot be written and failing the second request where a quantity of the data from the user entity's second request exceeds the defined storage quota.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Robert L. Fair, Imran Khan, Pranay Singh