Patents by Inventor Shin Nishihara

Shin Nishihara 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).

  • Publication number: 20230176760
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method capable of minimizing influences affecting business activities and dynamically changing the configuration of a storage apparatus in response to scale-out of hosts are proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Yuichi AZUMA, Tomohiro MORIMURA, Shin NISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 11599289
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method capable of minimizing influences affecting business activities and dynamically changing the configuration of a storage apparatus in response to scale-out of hosts are proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Azuma, Tomohiro Morimura, Shin Nishihara
  • Patent number: 11240245
    Abstract: A computer system includes one or more storage devices, and one or more processors. The one or more storage devices store permission management information specifying relations between combinations of an information source and an information type and whether sending information from the information source to an external network system is permitted or prohibited. The one or more processor is configured to receive an information transmission request specifying an information type of first information from a first system of an information source, determine whether sending the first information to outside a network system the first system belongs to is permitted with reference to the permission management information, and select a monitoring/analysis server to receive the first information from the monitoring/analysis servers based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shin Nishihara, Tomohiro Morimura
  • Publication number: 20210397357
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method capable of minimizing influences affecting business activities and dynamically changing the configuration of a storage apparatus in response to scale-out of hosts are proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Yuichi AZUMA, Tomohiro MORIMURA, Shin NISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20200195648
    Abstract: A computer system includes one or more storage devices, and one or more processors. The one or more storage devices store permission management information specifying relations between combinations of an information source and an information type and whether sending information from the information source to an external network system is permitted or prohibited. The one or more processor is configured to receive an information transmission request specifying an information type of first information from a first system of an information source, determine whether sending the first information to outside a network system the first system belongs to is permitted with reference to the permission management information, and select a monitoring/analysis server to receive the first information from the monitoring/analysis servers based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shin NISHIHARA, Tomohiro MORIMURA
  • Patent number: 9680933
    Abstract: A computer system includes a server that issues an access request with a virtual volume among the plurality of virtual volumes allocated in a plurality of storage apparatuses as an access target and measures a latency in each access path connecting each storage apparatus and the server, and a plurality of control units which are disposed in each storage apparatus and control the I/O of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shin Nishihara, Keishi Tamura, Kunihiko Nashimoto
  • Publication number: 20150319245
    Abstract: A computer system includes a server that issues an access request with a virtual volume among the plurality of virtual volumes allocated in a plurality of storage apparatuses as an access target and measures a latency in each access path connecting each storage apparatus and the server, and a plurality of control units which are disposed in each storage apparatus and control the I/O of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shin NISHIHARA, Keishi TAMURA, Kunihiko NASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8423796
    Abstract: A storage device and a data processing method of the storage device are provided which can prevent leaking of data attributed to stealing or taking out of a disk device. The storage device includes: disk adapters, each connected to HDDs which constitute one or more RAID groups; and a management part which manages a storage area provided by the HDDs in a state that the storage area is divided into logical storage areas, and manages the RAID groups. The management part sets an encryption state indicative of whether or not the data is to be encrypted with respect to the RAID groups when all of the disk adapters are connected to the HDDs which belong to the RAID groups are encryption adapters. The management part also encrypts, based on the encryption state set with respect to the RAID groups, and stores the encrypted data in the HDD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Nishihara, Shuichi Yagi, Yasuyuki Nagasoe
  • Publication number: 20100031062
    Abstract: The present invention provides a storage device and a data processing method of the storage device which can prevent leaking of data attributed to stealing or taking out of a disk device. A storage device includes: a plurality of disk adapters each of which is connected to HDDs which constitutes at least one RAID group; and a management part which manages a storage area provided by the plurality of HDD in a state that the storage area is divided into a plurality of logical storage areas, and manages the plurality of RAID groups. The management part sets an encryption state indicative of whether or not the data is to be encrypted with respect to the RAID group when all of the disk adapters connected to the HDD which belong to the RAID group are the encryption adapters the data, and the encryption adapter encrypts, based on the encryption state set with respect to the RAID group, and stores the encrypted data in the HDD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Shin Nishihara, Shuichi Yagi, Yasuyuki Nagasoe