Patents by Inventor Timothy Clarence Willging

Timothy Clarence Willging 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, system, and program for determining information on a storage system in a network
    Patent number: 7565431
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and program for providing information on a network storage system. Information is received from host systems identifying storage units the host systems access through at least one identified storage system. The at least one storage system is probed to determine storage units available through the storage system and an identifier of the storage system. The information received from the host systems on storage units the host systems access and the information probed from the at least one storage system on the storage units available through the storage system are processed to determine an association of host systems to storage units for the at least one storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Clarence Willging, Justin Russell Bendich, Kevin Joseph Webster