Patents by Inventor Senthilkumkar Ponnappan

Senthilkumkar Ponnappan 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).

  • Auto-creation of storage resource management paths
    Patent number: 8224958
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus to automatically create storage resource management (SRM) paths has been presented. In one embodiment, the method includes monitoring a data storage system to collect configuration data of storage objects in the data storage system and automatically creating a storage resource management (SRM) path for a storage object in the data storage system using at least a portion of the configuration data in response to a user request to scan the storage object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin B. Swartzlander, Senthilkumkar Ponnappan