Patents by Inventor SCOTT D. GUTHRIDGE

SCOTT D. GUTHRIDGE 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).

  • Failure domain based storage system data stripe layout
    Patent number: 9582363
    Abstract: A method for performing stripe placement within a storage system is disclosed. After a set of failure domains within a storage system has been identified, the failure domains are then organized to form a hierarchy of failure domains. A failure domain is defined as a group of one or more disks that are more likely to fail together because a common component is shared by that group of disks. Stripe placement is performed across all active failure domains within the storage system using a greedy algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ralph A. Becker-Szendy, David J. Craft, Scott D. Guthridge, James C. Wyllie
  • FAILURE DOMAIN BASED STORAGE SYSTEM DATA STRIPE LAYOUT
    Publication number: 20150355971
    Abstract: A method for performing stripe placement within a storage system is disclosed. After a set of failure domains within a storage system has been identified, the failure domains are then organized to form a hierarchy of failure domains. A failure domain is defined as a group of one or more disks that are more likely to fail together because a common component is shared by that group of disks. Stripe placement is performed across all active failure domains within the storage system using a greedy algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: RALPH A. BECKER-SZENDY, DAVID J. CRAFT, SCOTT D. GUTHRIDGE, JAMES C. WYLLIE