Patents by Inventor SHARI ANN VIETRY

SHARI ANN VIETRY 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).

  • System and method for managing storage system snapshots
    Patent number: 10346079
    Abstract: A method of managing snapshots on a storage system includes a storage controller (1) receiving a request to store a first snapshot associated with a first volume among a plurality of volumes on the storage system and (2) determining if an assigned snapshot reserve space remaining associated with the first volume is less than an amount of space that is required to store the first snapshot. In response to the assigned snapshot reserve space remaining being less than the amount of space required, borrowing snapshot reserve space from at least one of an unused assigned space or an unused unassigned space within the storage system and storing at least a portion of the first snapshot to the borrowed snapshot reserve space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Robert Schott, Nishant Kanaiyalal Mehta, Timothy D. Nolan, Paul Anthony Calato, Shari Ann Vietry
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING STORAGE SYSTEM SNAPSHOTS
    Publication number: 20160196088
    Abstract: A method of managing snapshots on a storage system includes a storage controller (1) receiving a request to store a first snapshot associated with a first volume among a plurality of volumes on the storage system and (2) determining if an assigned snapshot reserve space remaining associated with the first volume is less than an amount of space that is required to store the first snapshot. In response to the assigned snapshot reserve space remaining being less than the amount of space required, borrowing snapshot reserve space from at least one of an unused assigned space or an unused unassigned space within the storage system and storing at least a portion of the first snapshot to the borrowed snapshot reserve space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: ERIC ROBERT SCHOTT, NISHANT KANAIYALAL MEHTA, TIMOTHY D. NOLAN, PAUL ANTHONY CALATO, SHARI ANN VIETRY
  • System and method for managing storage system snapshots
    Patent number: 9298372
    Abstract: A method of managing snapshots on a storage system includes a storage controller (1) receiving a request to store a first snapshot associated with a first volume among a plurality of volumes on the storage system and (2) determining if an assigned snapshot reserve space remaining associated with the first volume is less than an amount of space that is required to store the first snapshot. In response to the assigned snapshot reserve space remaining being less than the amount of space required, borrowing snapshot reserve space from at least one of an unused assigned space or an unused unassigned space within the storage system and storing at least a portion of the first snapshot to the borrowed snapshot reserve space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Robert Schott, Nishant Kanaiyalal Mehta, Timothy D. Nolan, Paul Anthony Calato, Shari Ann Vietry
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING STORAGE SYSTEM SNAPSHOTS
    Publication number: 20140258657
    Abstract: A method of managing snapshots on a storage system includes a storage controller (1) receiving a request to store a first snapshot associated with a first volume among a plurality of volumes on the storage system and (2) determining if an assigned snapshot reserve space remaining associated with the first volume is less than an amount of space that is required to store the first snapshot. In response to the assigned snapshot reserve space remaining being less than the amount of space required, borrowing snapshot reserve space from at least one of an unused assigned space or an unused unassigned space within the storage system and storing at least a portion of the first snapshot to the borrowed snapshot reserve space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: ERIC ROBERT SCHOTT, NISHANT KANAIYALAL MEHTA, TIMOTHY D. NOLAN, PAUL ANTHONY CALATO, SHARI ANN VIETRY