Patents by Inventor Roger Oakey

Roger Oakey 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).

  • Patent number: 7356644
    Abstract: A very large virtual volume (e.g., in excess of 500 GB) is formed by distributing the disks in eleven, six-disk RAID-5 sets across the six busses of a primary local back-end controller. A spare disk is provided on each of the six busses. Each RAID-5 set is protected from the failure of a single disk by the spare disks on the busses, which can use the parity data stored in a RAID-5 set to rebuild the data stored on a failing disk and thereby restore redundancy to the RAID-5 set. Each RAID-5 set is also protected from the failure of a bus by the parity inherent in RAID-5. The RAID-5 sets are striped by a front-end controller connected to the primary local back-end controller, and the striped RAID-5 sets are presented to a host computer as a very large virtual volume. If the individual disks are 9.1 GB in size, the size of the very large virtual volume can reach 500.5 GB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Theodore E. Bruning, III, Randal S. Marks, Julia A. Hodges, Gerald L. Golden, Ryan J. Johnson, Bert Martens, Karen E. Workman, Susan G. Elkington, Richard F. Lary, Jesse Yandell, Stephen Sicola, Roger Oakey
  • Publication number: 20060101205
    Abstract: A very large virtual volume (e.g., in excess of 500 GB) is formed by distributing the disks in eleven, six-disk RAID-5 sets across the six busses of a primary local back-end controller. A spare disk is provided on each of the six busses. Each RAID-5 set is protected from the failure of a single disk by the spare disks on the busses, which can use the parity data stored in a RAID-5 set to rebuild the data stored on a failing disk and thereby restore redundancy to the RAID-5 set. Each RAID-5 set is also protected from the failure of a bus by the parity inherent in RAID-5. The RAID-5 sets are striped by a front-end controller connected to the primary local back-end controller, and the striped RAID-5 sets are presented to a host computer as a very large virtual volume. If the individual disks are 9.1 GB in size, the size of the very large virtual volume can reach 500.5 GB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventors: Theodore Bruning, Randal Marks, Julia Hodges, Gerald Golden, Ryan Johnson, Bert Martens, Karen Workman, Susan Elkington, Richard Lary, Jesse Yandell, Stephen Sicola, Roger Oakey
  • Patent number: 7000069
    Abstract: A very large virtual storage volume formed by distributing disks in multiple, multi-disk RAID (redundant array of independent disks) sets across busses of a back-end controller. The multiple RAID sets are striped by a front-end controller connected to the back-end controller and presented to a host computer as a very large virtual storage volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Theodore E. Bruning, III, Randal S. Marks, Julia A. Hodges, Gerald L. Golden, Ryan J. Johnson, Bert Martens, Karen E. Workman, Susan G. Elkington, Richard F. Lary, Jesse Yandell, Stephen Sicola, Roger Oakey
  • Publication number: 20020035667
    Abstract: A very large virtual volume (e.g., in excess of 500 GB) is formed by distributing the disks in eleven, six-disk RAID-5 sets across the six busses of a primary local back-end controller. A spare disk is provided on each of the six busses. Each RAID-5 set is protected from the failure of a single disk by the spare disks on the busses, which can use the parity data stored in a RAID-5 set to rebuild the data stored on a failing disk and thereby restore redundancy to the RAID-5 set. Each RAID-5 set is also protected from the failure of a bus by the parity inherent in RAID-5. The RAID-5 sets are striped by a front-end controller connected to the primary local back-end controller, and the striped RAID-5 sets are presented to a host computer as a very large virtual volume. If the individual disks are 9.1 GB in size, the size of the very large virtual volume can reach 500.5 GB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 1999
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: THEODORE E. BRUNING, RANDAL S. MARKS, JULIA A. HODGES, GERALD L. GOLDEN, RYAN J. JOHNSON, BERT MARTENS, KAREN E. WORKMAN, SUSAN G. ELKINGTON, RICHARD F. LARY, JESSE YANDELL, STEPHEN SICOLA, ROGER OAKEY