Patents by Inventor Robert Martin Lee

Robert Martin Lee 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).

  • Cluster expansion mechanism
    Patent number: 10976948
    Abstract: A method for storage cluster expansion is provided. The method includes distributing user data throughout a storage cluster as directed by each of a plurality of authorities in the storage cluster. Each of the plurality of authorities has a plurality of wards, and each of the plurality of wards has ownership of a range of the user data. The method includes splitting one of the plurality of authorities, as a parent authority, into at least two child authorities and assigning a first subset of the plurality of wards of the parent authority to one of the at least two child authorities, and a second subset of the plurality of wards of the parent authority to another one of the at least two child authorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Martin Lee, John Martin Hayes, Faissal Sleiman