Patents by Inventor Roderick Guy Moore

Roderick Guy Moore 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).

  • Rebuilding a failed disk in a disk array
    Patent number: 7925918
    Abstract: Provided are a method for operating a disk array, a disk array, and a rebuilding process. The disk array comprises a plurality of data disks and a parity disk. A failed data disk in the disk array is detected and the failed data disk is isolated from the disk array. A rebuild is initiated of the data in the failed data disk to a spare data disk from data in surviving data disks comprising the at least one of the data disks that did not fail and the parity disk in the disk array. An error is detected in one of the surviving data disks. Data is read from the failed data disk. The rebuild of the failed data disk is completed using the surviving data disks, the parity disk, and the data read from the failed data disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Ian Settle, Roderick Guy Moore
  • REBUILDLING A FAILED DISK IN A DISK ARRAY
    Publication number: 20080209263
    Abstract: Provided are a method for operating a disk array, a disk array, and a rebuilding process. The disk array comprises a plurality of data disks and a parity disk. A failed data disk in the disk array is detected and the failed data disk is isolated from the disk array. A rebuild is initiated of the data in the failed data disk to a spare data disk from data in surviving data disks comprising the at least one of the data disks that did not fail and the parity disk in the disk array. An error is detected in one of the surviving data disks. Data is read from the failed data disk. The rebuild of the failed data disk is completed using the surviving data disks, the parity disk, and the data read from the failed data disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Ian Settle, Roderick Guy Moore