Patents by Inventor Tyler Kenneth Reid

Tyler Kenneth Reid 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).

  • Managing dispersed storage network background tasks
    Patent number: 11645013
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing conflicting background tasks in a dispersed storage network are provided. In embodiments, a method includes: gathering scheduled future task data for scheduled future tasks from a plurality of task scheduling modules within a dispersed storage network, wherein the scheduled future tasks are tasks associated with stored data objects; monitoring the scheduled future task data for scheduling conflicts based on stored rules; determining that a scheduling conflict exists between a first future task of the scheduled future tasks and a second future task of the scheduled future tasks; issuing instructions to at least one of the plurality of task scheduling modules to update the first future task or the second future task based on the scheduling conflict; and updating, by the at least one of the plurality of task scheduling modules, the first future task or the second future task based on the instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Praveen Viraraghavan, Adam Gray, Tyler Kenneth Reid, Peter Kim, Fnu Manupriya, Anuraag Shah, Sridhar Gopalam, David Brittain Bolen, Bruno Cabral
  • MANAGING DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK BACKGROUND TASKS
    Publication number: 20210157484
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing conflicting background tasks in a dispersed storage network are provided. In embodiments, a method includes: gathering scheduled future task data for scheduled future tasks from a plurality of task scheduling modules within a dispersed storage network, wherein the scheduled future tasks are tasks associated with stored data objects; monitoring the scheduled future task data for scheduling conflicts based on stored rules; determining that a scheduling conflict exists between a first future task of the scheduled future tasks and a second future task of the scheduled future tasks; issuing instructions to at least one of the plurality of task scheduling modules to update the first future task or the second future task based on the scheduling conflict; and updating, by the at least one of the plurality of task scheduling modules, the first future task or the second future task based on the instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Praveen Viraraghavan, Adam Gray, Tyler Kenneth Reid, Peter Kim, Fnu Manupriya, Anuraag Shah, Sridhar Gopalam, David Brittain Bolen, Bruno Cabral