Patents by Inventor Sean B. Reilly

Sean B. Reilly 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).

  • Caching and data promotion techniques
    Patent number: 11216201
    Abstract: Techniques for performing data movements may include tracking sets of I/O statistics for a extents, wherein each of the sets of I/O statistics characterizes I/O operations directed to a corresponding one of the extents having data stored on a first storage tier of first non-volatile storage devices; determining, in accordance with the sets of I/O statistics, a list that includes one or more of the extents qualified for promotion from the first storage tier to a second storage tier, wherein the second storage tier includes second non-volatile storage devices have a higher performance ranking that the first non-volatile storage devices of the first storage tier; selecting, from the list, a first extent to be promoted from the first storage tier to the second storage tier; and performing first processing that promotes only cached data of the first extent from the first storage tier to the second storage tier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Owen Martin, Vladimir Desyatov, Mark D. Moreau, Dustin H. Zentz, Anoop Raghunathan, Sean B. Reilly
  • CACHING AND DATA PROMOTION TECHNIQUES
    Publication number: 20210373788
    Abstract: Techniques for performing data movements may include tracking sets of I/O statistics for a extents, wherein each of the sets of I/O statistics characterizes I/O operations directed to a corresponding one of the extents having data stored on a first storage tier of first non-volatile storage devices; determining, in accordance with the sets of I/O statistics, a list that includes one or more of the extents qualified for promotion from the first storage tier to a second storage tier, wherein the second storage tier includes second non-volatile storage devices have a higher performance ranking that the first non-volatile storage devices of the first storage tier; selecting, from the list, a first extent to be promoted from the first storage tier to the second storage tier; and performing first processing that promotes only cached data of the first extent from the first storage tier to the second storage tier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Owen Martin, Vladimir Desyatov, Mark D. Moreau, Dustin H. Zentz, Anoop Raghunathan, Sean B. Reilly