Patents by Inventor Steve Hartung

Steve Hartung 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).

  • Method and apparatus for just in time RAID spare drive pool management
    Publication number: 20060075283
    Abstract: Spare disk drive management in a storage system. The storage system comprises disk drives and spare disk drives. Spare disk drives are initially kept in power-off state. The storage system detects the failure of a disk drive and selects a spare disk drive to replace the failed disk drive. The spare disk drive is selected on the basis of spare selection criteria. The selected spare disk drive is powered-on and replaces the failed disk drive. Data on the failed disk drive can be reconstructed on the spare disk drive by using RAID parity techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Applicant: COPAN Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Hartung, Kim Le, Aloke Guha