Patents by Inventor Steve Rodrigues

Steve Rodrigues 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).

  • Processing of incoming blocks in deduplicating storage system
    Patent number: 9977746
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for deduplicating data. One method includes an operation for receiving a data block having a logical address. The storage system includes a logical address mapping index for mapping logical addresses to block numbers, a block index for mapping block numbers to physical locations, and a fingerprint index for mapping fingerprints of data blocks to block numbers. Additionally, the method includes an operation for inline processing the data block. Inline processing the data block includes determining a fingerprint of the data block, examining the fingerprint index to determine if the fingerprint is already mapped to an existing data block in the storage system, if the fingerprint is already mapped then adding a mapping of the logical address to the existing data block in the logical address mapping index, and if the fingerprint is not already mapped then creating the corresponding entries in the indices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Nitin Muppalaneni, Umesh Maheshwari, Steve Rodrigues, Srikant Varadan
  • Processing of Incoming Blocks in Deduplicating Storage System
    Publication number: 20170115883
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for deduplicating data. One method includes an operation for receiving a data block having a logical address. The storage system includes a logical address mapping index for mapping logical addresses to block numbers, a block index for mapping block numbers to physical locations, and a fingerprint index for mapping fingerprints of data blocks to block numbers. Additionally, the method includes an operation for inline processing the data block. Inline processing the data block includes determining a fingerprint of the data block, examining the fingerprint index to determine if the fingerprint is already mapped to an existing data block in the storage system, if the fingerprint is already mapped then adding a mapping of the logical address to the existing data block in the logical address mapping index, and if the fingerprint is not already mapped then creating the corresponding entries in the indices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Nitin Muppalaneni, Umesh Maheshwari, Steve Rodrigues, Srikant Varadan