Patents by Inventor Steven Halladay

Steven Halladay 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: 7114013
    Abstract: The intelligent data storage manager functions to combine the non-homogeneous physical devices contained in a data storage subsystem to create a logical device with new and unique quality of service characteristics that satisfy the criteria for the policies appropriate for the present data object. In particular, if there is presently no logical device that is appropriate for use in storing the present data object, the intelligent data storage manager defines a new logical device using existing physical and/or logical device definitions as component building blocks to provide the appropriate characteristics to satisfy the policy requirements. The intelligent data storage manager uses weighted values that are assigned to each of the presently defined logical devices to produce a best fit solution to the requested policies in an n-dimensional best fit matching algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Storage Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Alan Bakke, Stephen Henry Blendermann, Steven Halladay, Steven A. Johnson, Jeffrey Steven Laughlin, George Arthur Rudeseal, Charles Patrick Schafer, Thomas David West, Michael C. Wojnar
  • Patent number: 6816957
    Abstract: An intelligent data storage manager is operational in a virtual data storage system that uses a storage element to store data for a host processor. The storage manager includes a host interface and a controller. The host interface receives a virtual volume having virtual blocks from a host processor. The controller sequentially segments the virtual volume into data pages. Each data page includes virtual blocks of the virtual volume. The controller generates a meta data page associated with the virtual volume to map the data pages to the virtual blocks of the virtual volume. The controller uses the meta data page to selectively store the data pages onto the storage element. The storage element has a partitioning configuration and the amount of the virtual blocks included by each data page is a function of the partitioning configuration of the storage element. The meta data page associated with the virtual volume includes meta data page records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Storage Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Halladay, David Allen Major, Robert B. Wood
  • Publication number: 20020032816
    Abstract: The intelligent data storage manager functions to combine the non-homogeneous physical devices contained in a data storage subsystem to create a logical device with new and unique quality of service characteristics that satisfy the criteria for the policies appropriate for the present data object. In particular, if there is presently no logical device that is appropriate for use in storing the present data object, the intelligent data storage manager defines a new logical device using existing physical and/or logical device definitions as component building blocks to provide the appropriate characteristics to satisfy the policy requirements. The intelligent data storage manager uses weighted values that are assigned to each of the presently defined logical devices to produce a best fit solution to the requested policies in an n-dimensional best fit matching algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Applicant: Storage Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Alan Bakke, Stephen Henry Blendermann, Steven Halladay, Steven A. Johnson, Jeffrey Steven Laughlin, George Arthur Rudeseal, Charles Patrick Schafer, Thomas David West, Michael C. Wojnar
  • Patent number: 6330621
    Abstract: The intelligent data storage manager functions to combine the non-homogeneous physical devices contained in a data storage subsystem to create a logical device with new and unique quality of service characteristics that satisfy the criteria for the policies appropriate for the present data object. In particular, if there is presently no logical device that is appropriate for use in storing the present data object, the intelligent data storage manager defines a new logical device using existing physical and/or logical device definitions as component building blocks to provide the appropriate characteristics to satisfy the policy requirements. The intelligent data storage manager uses weighted values that are assigned to each of the presently defined logical devices to produce a best fit solution to the requested policies in an n-dimensional best fit matching algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Storage Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Alan Bakke, Stephen Henry Blendermann, Steven Halladay, Steven A. Johnson, Jeffrey Steven Laughlin, George Arthur Rudeseal, Charles Patrick Schafer, Thomas David West, Michael C. Wojnar