Patents by Inventor Toshimitsu Kamano

Toshimitsu Kamano 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: 8195904
    Abstract: The storage system includes a controller receiving a plurality of access commands from a plurality of host computers, a plurality of disk drives being coupled to the controller, and a panel adapted to display host group identifiers and logical storage regions so that security information can be set for a logical storage region by a user on a host computer basis or on a host group basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Kamano, Kenichi Takamoto
  • Patent number: 8095757
    Abstract: The storage regions under command of a storage controller can be simply enabled and disabled to access to by automatically registering connected host computers. Such system can be achieved by taking a step of acquiring N_Port_Name information included in a login frame from the host computers, and a step of displaying a table of access right of host computers to a logical unit under command of storage controller. A security table for the storage controller can be generated by supervisor's setting the access enable/disable flag information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Kamano, Kenichi Takamoto
  • Patent number: 7457916
    Abstract: In a storage system having a plurality of disk array devices connected through a network to a host for running an application, and a management server for monitoring the disk array devices, the disk array device includes a physical disk error detecting unit for detecting an error in a physical disk. Meanwhile, the management server stores a corresponding relationship among the application, a logical volume used by the application, and the physical disk corresponding to the logical volume. Moreover, the management server includes an application detecting unit for detecting the application using the logical volume corresponding to the physical disk with the error according to the corresponding relationship when the physical disk error detecting unit of the disk array device detects the error in the physical disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Suzuki, Toshimitsu Kamano, Kenji Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20080010427
    Abstract: The storage regions under command of a storage controller can be simply enabled and disabled to access to by automatically registering connected host computers. Such system can be achieved by taking a step of acquiring N_Port_Name information included in a login frame from the host computers, and a step of displaying a table of access right of host computers to a logical unit under command of storage controller. A security table for the storage controller can be generated by supervisor's setting the access enable/disable flag information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Kamano, Kenichi Takamoto
  • Publication number: 20070011579
    Abstract: In a storage system having a plurality of disk array devices connected through a network to a host for running an application, and a management server for monitoring the disk array devices, the disk array device includes a physical disk error detecting unit for detecting an error in a physical disk. Meanwhile, the management server stores a corresponding relationship among the application, a logical volume used by the application, and the physical disk corresponding to the logical volume. Moreover, the management server includes an application detecting unit for detecting the application using the logical volume corresponding to the physical disk with the error according to the corresponding relationship when the physical disk error detecting unit of the disk array device detects the error in the physical disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Suzuki, Toshimitsu Kamano, Kenji Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20060271753
    Abstract: The storage regions under command of a storage controller can be simply enabled and disabled to access to by automatically registering connected host computers. Such system can be achieved by taking a step of acquiring N_Port_Name information included in a login frame from the host computers, and a step of displaying a table of access right of host computers to a logical unit under command of storage controller. A security table for the storage controller can be generated by supervisor's setting the access enable/disable flag information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Kamano, Kenichi Takamoto
  • Patent number: 7130978
    Abstract: The storage regions under command of a storage controller can be simply enabled and disabled to access to by automatically registering connected host computers. Such system can be achieved by taking a step of acquiring N_Port_Name information included in a login frame from the host computers, and a step of displaying a table of access right of host computers to a logical unit under command of storage controller. A security table for the storage controller can be generated by supervisor's setting the access enable/disable flag information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Kamano, Kenichi Takamoto
  • Patent number: 6968434
    Abstract: The storage regions under command of a storage controller can be simply enabled and disabled to access to by automatically registering connected host computers. Such system can be achieved by taking a step of acquiring N—Port—Name information included in a login frame from the host computers, and a step of displaying a table of access right of host computers to a logical unit under command of storage controller. A security table for the storage controller can be generated by supervisor's setting the access enable/disable flag information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Kamano, Kenichi Takamoto
  • Publication number: 20040199736
    Abstract: The storage regions under command of a storage controller can be simply enabled and disabled to access to by automatically registering connected host computers. Such system can be achieved by taking a step of acquiring N_Port_Name information included in a login frame from the host computers, and a step of displaying a table of access right of host computers to a logical unit under command of storage controller. A security table for the storage controller can be generated by supervisor's setting the access enable/disable flag information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Kamano, Kenichi Takamoto
  • Publication number: 20040153728
    Abstract: In a storage system having a plurality of disk array devices connected through a network to a host for running an application, and a management server for monitoring the disk array devices, the disk array device includes a physical disk error detecting unit for detecting an error in a physical disk. Meanwhile, the management server stores a corresponding relationship among the application, a logical volume used by the application, and the physical disk corresponding to the logical volume. Moreover, the management server includes an application detecting unit for detecting the application using the logical volume corresponding to the physical disk with the error according to the corresponding relationship when the physical disk error detecting unit of the disk array device detects the error in the physical disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Suzuki, Toshimitsu Kamano, Kenji Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20030196055
    Abstract: The storage regions under command of a storage controller can be simply enabled and disabled to access to by automatically registering connected host computers. Such system can be achieved by taking a step of acquiring N_Port_Name information included in a login frame from the host computers, and a step of displaying a table of access right of host computers to a logical unit under command of storage controller. A security table for the storage controller can be generated by supervisor's setting the access enable/disable flag information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Publication date: October 16, 2003
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Kamano, Kenichi Takamoto
  • Patent number: 6606695
    Abstract: The storage regions under command of a storage controller can be simply enabled and disabled to access to by automatically registering connected host computers. Such system can be achieved by taking a step of acquiring N_Port_Name information included in a login frame from the host computers, and a step of displaying a table of access right of host computers to a logical unit under command of storage controller. A security table for the storage controller can be generated by supervisor's setting the access enable/disable flag information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Kamano, Kenichi Takamoto
  • Publication number: 20010047463
    Abstract: The storage regions under command of a storage controller can be simply enabled and disabled to access to by automatically registering connected host computers. Such system can be achieved by taking a step of acquiring N_Port_Name information included in a login frame from the host computers, and a step of displaying a table of access right of host computers to a logical unit under command of storage controller. A security table for the storage controller can be generated by supervisor's setting the access enable/disable flag information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: November 29, 2001
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Kamano, Kenichi Takamoto