Patents by Inventor Shuji Fujino

Shuji Fujino 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).

  • Patent number: 8677369
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for allocating programs to resources suited to operating conditions thereof comprises generating composition management information for a plurality of resources based on management information relating to performance and capacity of each of the resources. The composition management information includes identification information for the resources used by a plurality of programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shuji Fujino
  • Patent number: 8443362
    Abstract: Provided is a computer system including a host computer, a storage system, and a management computer, in which the storage system receives data I/O request to virtual logical volumes and data I/O request to one or more real logical volumes, each of the virtual logical volumes is allocated to one of one or more pools, storage areas of physical storage systems are allocated to all storage areas defined as the pools, and when a performance problem has occurred in one of the virtual logical volumes, the management computer selects the one of the virtual logical volumes, and selects a pool other than the pool to which the selected virtual logical volume is allocated and the real logical volumes as a migration destination of the selected virtual logical volume, to thereby prevent a performance problem from being caused by interference among the virtual logical volumes sharing the pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsutaka Inoue, Shuji Fujino, Hideo Ohata, Tadashi Numanoi
  • Patent number: 8424002
    Abstract: An information output method for displaying information of a computer system executing a plurality of tasks including: reading out task construction information corresponding to a task executed by the computer system from a storage device and displaying by an output device the task construction information in a task construction display area inside an output area; reading out logical construction information associated with the task construction information from the storage device and displaying by the output device the logical construction information in a logical construction display area inside the output area; and reading out physical construction information associated with the logical construction information from the storage device and displaying by the output device the physical construction information in a physical construction display area inside the output area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Akamatsu, Shuji Fujino
  • Patent number: 8307170
    Abstract: At least one processor for executing a plurality of programs, a storage area which is capable of storing an information element temporarily, and a storage device which is capable of storing the information element, are provided. A certain level of importance is associated with each of the programs themselves or a performance requirement of each program. When a certain information element is output as a result of execution of a certain program from among the plurality of programs, the certain information element is written into the storage area. Then, a plurality of information elements written in the storage area is output to the storage device side in order of precedence from the information element of the executed program, or the performance requirement thereof, having the highest level of importance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shuji Fujino
  • Publication number: 20120011510
    Abstract: A computer resource control system for running business applications on virtual computers within a business computer by using computer, virtual computer, network, and storage resources, the system comprises a collection process section for periodically collecting the dynamically changing information about the use of each resource when business applications run on the virtual computers within the business computer; a resource recovery process section for calculating the amounts of resources required for the operations of the business applications periodically in accordance with the dynamically changing information about the use of each resource, which is gathered by the collection process section, allocating the calculated amounts of resources to the resources of each virtual computer, and recovering any extra resources; and a resource allocation process section for allocating the extra resources, which are recovered by the resource recovery process section, to the virtual computers in accordance with the prio
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi YAMAKABE, Shuji FUJINO
  • Patent number: 8046764
    Abstract: A computer resource control system for running business applications on virtual computers within a business computer by using computer, virtual computer, network, and storage resources, the system comprises a collection process section for periodically collecting the dynamically changing information about the use of each resource when business applications run on the virtual computers within the business computer; a resource recovery process section for calculating the amounts of resources required for the operations of the business applications periodically in accordance with the dynamically changing information about the use of each resource, which is gathered by the collection process section, allocating the calculated amounts of resources to the resources of each virtual computer, and recovering any extra resources; and a resource allocation process section for allocating the extra resources, which are recovered by the resource recovery process section, to the virtual computers in accordance with the prio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamakabe, Shuji Fujino
  • Patent number: 7783737
    Abstract: Digital content is stored in a logical volume provided in a storage system connected to a communications network. A sub-management computer selects a destination computer forming a supply destination for digital content from a plurality of business computers or virtual computers, further selects the address information corresponding to the selected destination computer from a plurality of address information components, and allocates the selected address information to the digital content itself or to the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Fujino, Daisuke Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 7756971
    Abstract: A data-processing system has at least one computer executing at least one application program and at least one storage device. The computer and the at least one storage device storing data are communicatively connected via a plurality of data transfer paths assigned to each program. A data-processing apparatus is communicatively connected to the data-processing system. The data-processing apparatus includes a system configuration storage unit, an abnormality detection information reception unit, an inspection target selection unit and an inspection result storage unit. The system configuration storage unit stores, in a correlated manner, each component of the data-processing system constituting each data transfer path and a program using each component as a data transfer path. The abnormality detection information reception unit receives abnormality detection information indicating that an abnormality is detected while executing an application program, from the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Sutou, Shuji Fujino
  • Patent number: 7571351
    Abstract: The method includes confirmation policy processing for acquiring confirmation item information indicating a condition every confirmation item to distinguish a cause at time of fault occurrence, reading presumed cause information indicating a presumed cause corresponding to each pattern in the confirmation item information when a confirmation item value of a confirmation object satisfies a condition in the confirmation item information, and acquiring a presumed cause corresponding to the confirmation item information of the condition; execution policy processing for executing contents of a measure against the presumed cause read from execution policy information; evaluation policy processing for acquiring evaluation item information to evaluate a measure result, judging an effect of the executed measure based on whether an evaluation item value of an evaluation object is in a stable operation range, and storing a judging result; and controlling an autonomous policy cycle for conducting the confirmation, execut
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Miyazaki, Shuji Fujino, Takashi Abe
  • Patent number: 7565656
    Abstract: The present invention is capable of automatically changing resource allocation based on a result of measurement of performance information conforming to the service level objective corresponding to various kinds of applications. For the change of resource allocation, in accordance with a generated resource allocation changing rules and the structure information, the present invention comprises: a performance measurement item template to generate a measurement item of the performance information from the structure information by storing a resource table including a server, network, and storage, an application table indicating structural elements of applications operating on these resources, and an allocation table to applications of resources; a performance measurement engine for measuring the measurement item of this performance information with the performance measurement engine; and a means for generating resource allocation changing rules used for resource allocation change from the structure information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Yamasaki, Shuji Fujino
  • Publication number: 20090070444
    Abstract: Digital content is stored in a logical volume provided in a storage system connected to a communications network. A sub-management computer selects a destination computer forming a supply destination for digital content from a plurality of business computers or virtual computers, further selects the address information corresponding to the selected destination computer from a plurality of address information components, and allocates the selected address information to the digital content itself or to the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji Fujino, Daisuke Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20080313641
    Abstract: Provided is a computer system including a host computer, a storage system, and a management computer, in which the storage system receives data I/O request to virtual logical volumes and data I/O request to one or more real logical volumes, each of the virtual logical volumes is allocated to one of one or more pools, storage areas of physical storage systems are allocated to all storage areas defined as the pools, and when a performance problem has occurred in one of the virtual logical volumes, the management computer selects the one of the virtual logical volumes, and selects a pool other than the pool to which the selected virtual logical volume is allocated and the real logical volumes as a migration destination of the selected virtual logical volume, to thereby prevent a performance problem from being caused by interference among the virtual logical volumes sharing the pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Katsutaka Inoue, Shuji Fujino, Hideo Ohata, Tadashi Numanoi
  • Patent number: 7457925
    Abstract: To enable favorable control of the storage of electronic information, a management device connected communicably to one or more storage control devices that are connected communicably to at least one of a plurality of storage devices refers to resource information relating to the usage condition of at least one hardware resource from among the one or more storage control devices, specifies an unused part of the hardware resource from the resource information, and sets a storage virtual computer, which serves as a virtual computer to which all or a part of the specified unused part is allocated, in at least one of the one or more storage control devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shuji Fujino
  • Patent number: 7454652
    Abstract: In a storage system including an information processing apparatus and a storage apparatus that is communicably connected to the information processing apparatus via a communication network and that writes or reads data to or from a storage device in response to a data write/read request transmitted from the information processing apparatus, real resource operations are managed, with virtual resources set by assigning the real resources and the settings changed in conformity with the operating status of the real resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Futoshi Haga, Yutaka Kudo, Shuji Fujino
  • Publication number: 20080256546
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for allocating programs to resources suited to operating conditions thereof comprises generating composition management information for a plurality of resources based on management information relating to performance and capacity of each of the resources. The composition management information includes identification information for the resources used by a plurality of programs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Shuji Fujino
  • Patent number: 7424713
    Abstract: A method of allocating programs to resources is provided. The method includes generating composition management information for a plurality of resources based on management information relating to performance and capacity of each of the resources. The composition management information includes identification information for the resources used by a plurality of programs. The method also includes searching for and locating the composition management information of a resource identified by the identification information for each of the programs, based on the composition management information of the resources. The method further includes generating program information which associates composition management information of the programs and the located resource together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shuji Fujino
  • Patent number: 7334036
    Abstract: An information management system and method reduces the amount of data generated and transmitted for analysis and observation over a first network. An information management sub-system, includes a manager that analyzes or observes data, which is collected by multiple agents connected therewith through the first network. A sub-manager is connected with the agents via a second network, and manages data for the targets of management (such as, various kinds of information data collected by the agents, programs for collecting/analyzing the collected data, and data of analysis results thereof) in a storage, which is also connected with the second network, and which is used commonly between the sub-manager and the agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ando, Shuji Fujino
  • Patent number: 7334189
    Abstract: A displaying method that makes the following possible: Executing an operation from either of two approaches, i.e. a processing oriented to an object to be processed or a processing oriented to a task to be processed, and effectively dealing with a lot of tasks and various types of objects, and performing a flexible operation. In the displaying method in an information processing apparatus, both displays, i.e. a display intended for selecting the task to be processed and a display intended for selecting the object to be processed, are displayed on a display apparatus in such a manner that the two displays are distributed into two tabs, respectively. This condition makes it possible to select the task to be processed with a selection of the tabs, and also makes it possible to execute in an arbitrary order the processing oriented to the task and the processing oriented to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Takashi Yoshimaru, Shuji Fujino
  • Publication number: 20070174708
    Abstract: The method includes confirmation policy processing for acquiring confirmation item information indicating a condition every confirmation item to distinguish a cause at time of fault occurrence, reading presumed cause information indicating a presumed cause corresponding to each pattern in the confirmation item information when a confirmation item value of a confirmation object satisfies a condition in the confirmation item information, and acquiring a presumed cause corresponding to the confirmation item information of the condition; execution policy processing for executing contents of a measure against the presumed cause read from execution policy information; evaluation policy processing for acquiring evaluation item information to evaluate a measure result, judging an effect of the executed measure based on whether an evaluation item value of an evaluation object is in a stable operation range, and storing a judging result; and controlling an autonomous policy cycle for conducting the confirmation, execut
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Daisuke Miyazaki, Shuji Fujino, Takashi Abe
  • Publication number: 20070136727
    Abstract: An information output method for displaying information of a computer system executing a plurality of tasks includes the steps of reading out task construction information corresponding to a task executed by the computer system from a storage device and displaying by an output device the task construction information in a task construction display area inside an output area, reading out logical construction information associated with the task construction information from the storage device and displaying by the output device the logical construction information in a logical construction display area inside the output area, and reading out physical construction information associated with the logical construction information from the storage device and displaying by the output device the physical construction information in a physical construction display area inside the output area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Yuji Akamatsu, Shuji Fujino