Patents by Inventor Randolph E. Harr

Randolph E. Harr 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).

  • Dynamic storage management
    Patent number: 6799260
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for managing storage. A storage system may receive a request from a host, for example, to allocate n blocks of storage. The storage system may allocate m blocks of physical storage, where m<n, and indicate that the request completed successfully. In various embodiments, m>zero (0) or m=zero (0). The storage system may receive a request to access a block j of the requested blocks of storage, m<j<n, and accessing the block j, in response to the request to access. Allocating the physical storage may include allocating m blocks of physical storage encompassing the block j. After the allocating, the storage system may receive a request to access a block j of the requested blocks of storage, m<j<n, access the block j and indicate that the request to access completed successfully.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Intransa, Inc.
    Inventors: Omer Tunali, Ismail Dalgic, David C. Lee, Randolph E. Harr