Patents by Inventor Ronald Venturi

Ronald Venturi 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).

  • Method and apparatus for configuring a storage device
    Patent number: 7685394
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed in which a storage device controller is arranged to use a set of sequential physical block addresses on a storage device as a single logical block address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald Venturi
  • DETECTION AND RECOVERY OF DROPPED WRITES IN STORAGE DEVICES
    Publication number: 20080091893
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a request to write data to a storage medium is received. The data requested to be written to the storage medium is stored in a cache. A writing of the data is initiated to the storage medium. A periodic determination is made as to whether the stored data in the cache is the same as the data written to the storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Durica, M. Hajji, Joseph Hyde, Ronald Venturi
  • Method, apparatus and program storage device for protecting data writes in a data storage device
    Publication number: 20060242459
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and program storage device for protecting data write operations against write failures in a data storage device is provided. The data storage device includes a storage medium, a write cache including a copy of data written to the storage medium, and a controller configured for testing data write operations to the storage medium. The controller tests data write operations to the storage medium before the write cache is flushed to confirm that it is safe to flush the write cache. If the test fails, the data in the write cache can be recovered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Joseph Hyde, Ronald Venturi
  • Detection and recovery of dropped writes in storage devices
    Publication number: 20060179381
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a request to write data to a storage medium is received. The data requested to be written to the storage medium is stored in a cache. A writing of the data is initiated to the storage medium. A periodic determination is made as to whether the stored data in the cache is the same as the data written to the storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventors: William Durica, M. Hajji, Joseph Hyde, Ronald Venturi
  • Method and apparatus for configuring a storage device
    Publication number: 20060117161
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed in which a storage device controller is arranged to use a set of sequential physical block addresses on a storage device as a single logical block address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventor: Ronald Venturi