Patents by Inventor Rick Stout

Rick Stout 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).

  • Techniques for managing a storage environment
    Patent number: 8001284
    Abstract: Techniques for managing a storage environment. According to an embodiment of the present invention, high-level application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided that can be used by applications such as storage management applications (e.g., ERM applications, SRM applications) to manage a storage environment. Using these APIs, an application can issue simple high-level commands to perform storage management operations without having to worry about the low level storage array-specific commands. Embodiments of the present invention handle the necessary translations between the high-level commands and the low-level storage array-specific commands or protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Quinn, Rick Stout, Justin O'Hagan
  • Techniques for Managing a Storage Environment
    Publication number: 20080216097
    Abstract: Techniques for managing a storage environment. According to an embodiment of the present invention, high-level application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided that can be used by applications such as storage management applications (e.g., ERM applications, SRM applications) to manage a storage environment. Using these APIs, an application can issue simple high-level commands to perform storage management operations without having to worry about the low level storage array-specific commands. Embodiments of the present invention handle the necessary translations between the high-level commands and the low-level storage array-specific commands or protocols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Quinn, Rick Stout, Justin O'Hagan
  • Techniques for managing a storage environment
    Patent number: 7363390
    Abstract: Techniques for managing a storage environment. According to an embodiment of the present invention, high-level application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided that can be used by applications such as storage management applications (e.g., ERM applications, SRM applications) to manage a storage environment. Using these APIs, an application can issue simple high-level commands to perform storage management operations without having to worry about the low level storage array-specific commands. Embodiments of the present invention handle the necessary translations between the high-level commands and the low-level storage array-specific commands or protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Quinn, Rick Stout, Justin O'Hagan
  • Techniques for managing a storage environment
    Publication number: 20040006616
    Abstract: Techniques for managing a storage environment. According to an embodiment of the present invention, high-level application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided that can be used by applications such as storage management applications (e.g., ERM applications, SRM applications) to manage a storage environment. Using these APIs, an application can issue simple high-level commands to perform storage management operations without having to worry about the low level storage array-specific commands. Embodiments of the present invention handle the necessary translations between the high-level commands and the low-level storage array-specific commands or protocols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Steven Quinn, Rick Stout, Justin O'Hagan