Patents by Inventor Stephen A. Mendes

Stephen A. Mendes 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for array agnostic automated storage tiering
    Patent number: 10225162
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide, in a cloud infrastructure environment, an array agnostic automated storage tiering mechanism, wherein storage array types may be different. A user can select storage with an automated storage tiering policy while details of the storage are abstracted for the user. In embodiments, tiering policies determine a location for data based upon activity associated with the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Anurag Jain, Sukesh Kumar Biddappa, Stephen A. Mendes, Seema Tahaliyani, Douglas J. Santoli, Barbara S Tzanakis
  • Methods and apparatus for shared service provisioning
    Patent number: 9569139
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide, in a cloud infrastructure environment a shared storage service with only storage, wherein the storage can be shared with other managed services. The storage is exposed to hosts with commands to the storage, networking, and compute resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Stephen A. Mendes, Anurag Jain, Kiran Karnam, Sukesh Kumar Biddappa, Jeffrey B. Gibson
  • Storage provisioning in a data storage environment
    Patent number: 9535629
    Abstract: A method, computer program product and system enabling provisioning of a storage volume across network resources through the storage provisioning interface, wherein the storage provisioning interface enables provisioning of network resources to enable presentation of a provisioned storage volume, wherein the provisioned storage volume is enabled to be provisioned across a plurality of storage resources across the network resources, and wherein the provisioned storage volume is enabled to be a redundant distributed volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Salvatore DeSimone, Suresh K Biddappa, Vladislav Dranov, Michael G. Hegerich, Patrick J. Hunt, Anurag Jain, Adam C. LaPlante, Stephen A. Mendes, Anoop G. Ninan, Thomas L. Watson
  • Method and apparatus for topology driven zoning
    Patent number: 8725878
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to create zones for ports from a storage layer to a compute layer both coupled to a storage area network switch. In one embodiment, the storage layer includes ports in field replaceable unit (FRU) port groups, the port groups in FRU adapters, and the adapters in FRU adapter groups. The ports can be selected to minimize single points of failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Gillam, Ameer M. Jabbar, Anurag Jain, Stephen A. Mendes, Sukesh Kumar Biddappa
  • Method and apparatus for representing, managing and problem reporting in VoIP networks
    Patent number: 7797420
    Abstract: A method, system and computer product for analyzing a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) network composed of a plurality of components are disclosed. The method comprises the method comprises the steps of representing selected ones of the plurality of components, providing a mapping between a plurality of first events and a plurality of second events occurring in selected ones of the components; and determining at least one first event based on at least one of the plurality of second events by determining a measure between each of a plurality of values associated with the plurality of first events and the plurality of second events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: W. Stuart Mackie, Stephen A. Mendes, William Kuhhirte