Patents by Inventor Walter O'Brien

Walter O'Brien 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).

  • Publication number: 20230229341
    Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one processing device configured to establish a plurality of paths between at least one initiator of a host device and a plurality of targets of respective storage nodes of a distributed storage system, and for each of a plurality of input-output operations generated in the host device for delivery to the distributed storage system: to access a target lookup service of the host device to determine a particular one of the storage nodes that stores data for a logical storage volume and offset targeted by the input-output operation, to select a particular one of the plurality of paths from the initiator to one of the targets on the particular storage node, and to send the input-output operation to the particular storage node over the selected path. The initiator and the targets are illustratively configured in accordance with a designated standard storage access protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Xiangping Chen, Walter O'Brien, III, Doron Tal
  • Patent number: 11704159
    Abstract: An information handling system for instantiating a composed information handling includes hardware computing resources. The hardware computing resources includes a compute resource set that includes computing resources including a processor and a memory, and a hardware resource set including resources distinct from the compute resource set. The information also includes a hardware system control processor adapted to present a portion of the hardware resource set to a compute resource set of the composed information handling system as bare metal resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Wayne Hormuth, Elie Antoun Jreij, Jimmy Doyle Pike, William Price Dawkins, Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, Mukund P. Khatri, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Yossef Saad
  • Patent number: 11698821
    Abstract: A method for managing composed information handling systems includes obtaining a composition request for a composed information handling system, making a first determination that a first information handling system is not capable of servicing the composition request local, and based on the first determination: allocating, an available resource on the first information handling system to the composed information handling system, sending a resource allocation request to a system control processor manager for access to an additional resource, obtain, in response to the allocation request, a notification for access to a second information handling system of the information handling systems that provides the available resource, setting up management services for available resource and the additional resource to obtain logical hardware resources, and presenting the logical hardware resources to at least one compute resource set as bare metal resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, William Price Dawkins, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Elie Antoun Jreij, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Mukund P. Khatri, Yossef Saad
  • Publication number: 20230214269
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing computational offloads for composed information handling systems. The method includes obtaining, by a system control processor associated with a composed information handling system, a computational offload request associated with a dataset from an application executing on an at least one compute resource set; in response to obtaining the computational offload request: identifying a dataset location associated with the dataset in the composed information handling system; identifying resources of the composed information handling system capable of performing the computational offload request; selecting a resource of the resources to perform the computational offload; and initiating performance of the computational offload request on the selected resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Gaurav Chawla, Amnon Izhar, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Ali Aiouaz, Doron Tal, David L. Black, William Price Dawkins
  • Patent number: 11693703
    Abstract: A system for providing computer implemented services using information handling systems includes a composed information handling system that provides, at least in part, the computer implemented services and a system control processor manager. The system control processor manager instantiates a utilization monitor in a system control processor of the composed information handling system; and monitors, using the utilization monitor, a use rate of computing resources of the composed information handling system by a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Elie Antoun Jreij, Gaurav Chawla, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Mukund P. Khatri, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Yossef Saad, Mark Steven Sanders, William Price Dawkins
  • Patent number: 11687280
    Abstract: A system for managing storage of data in composed information handling systems includes a system control processor manager that identifies a compute resource set having compute resources specified by a composition request, identifies a hardware resource set having hardware resources specified by the composition request including a local data processor that services writes using a local device and a remote device, sets up storage management services for managing writes of data to the hardware resource set using a control resource set and the compute resource set to obtain logical hardware in which the local data processor preferentially services writes of the data using the local device rather than the remote device, and presents the logical hardware resources using the control resource set to the compute resource set as bare metal resources to instantiate a composed information handling system to service the composition request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Walter A. O'Brien, III, Doron Tal, Rivka Mayraz Matosevich
  • Patent number: 11683172
    Abstract: A distributed secure communication system includes a first System Control Processor (SCP) subsystem coupled to second and third SCP subsystems via a network. The first SCP subsystem identifies the second SCP subsystem, signs a first SCP authentication communication with a first private key to provide a first signed SCP authentication communication that it transmits to the second SCP subsystem. The first SCP subsystem receives a second signed SCP authentication communication from the second SCP subsystem, authenticates the second signed SCP authentication communication using a second public key associated with the second SCP subsystem and, in response, establishes a first secure communication channel with the second SCP subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jimmy D. Pike, Gaurav Chawla, William Price Dawkins, Mark Steven Sanders, Elie Jreij, Robert W. Hormuth, Mukund P. Khatri, Walter A. O'Brien, III
  • Patent number: 11676671
    Abstract: An amplification-based read disturb information determination system includes a storage device coupled to a global read temperature identification system. The storage device amplifies data errors in a first row in its storage subsystem by shifting a first value voltage reference level associated with the first row to provide a second value voltage reference level, reads data stored in bits provided in the first row and error correction information associated with the data, and uses the error correction information to identify a number of the bits that store portions of the data with errors. For the first row and based on the number of bits that store portions of the data with errors, the storage device determines read disturb information and uses it to generate a read temperature for a second row in its storage subsystem that it provides to the global read temperature identification system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ali Aiouaz, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Leland W. Thompson
  • Patent number: 11675625
    Abstract: A method for managing composed information handling systems includes obtaining, by a system control processor, a composition request for a composed information handling system of the composed information handling systems, wherein the composition request comprises an operational instances requirement, and initially allocating only a minimum number of instances of a resource based on the operational instances requirement to the composed information handling system, wherein at least one of the minimum number of instances of the resource is provided by a first information handling system, wherein the first information handling system is operatively connected to the system control processor manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: William Price Dawkins, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Yossef Saad, Mukund P. Khatri, Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, Elie Antoun Jreij, Jimmy Doyle Pike
  • Patent number: 11630707
    Abstract: A method for managing composed information handling systems includes obtaining a composition request for a composed information handling system, making a first determination that a first information handling system is not capable of servicing the composition request local, and based on the first determination: allocating, an available resource on the first information handling system to the composed information handling system, sending a resource allocation request to a system control processor manager for access to an additional resource, obtain, in response to the allocation request, a notification for access to a second information handling system of the information handling systems that provides the available resource, setting up management services for available resource and the additional resource to obtain logical hardware resources, and presenting the logical hardware resources to at least one compute resource set as bare metal resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, William Price Dawkins, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Elie Antoun Jreij, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Mukund P. Khatri, Yossef Saad
  • Publication number: 20230105694
    Abstract: A device access control system includes a first computing system that is coupled to a second computing system via a network, and that includes a device access controller subsystem coupled to devices, a central processing subsystem, and a device access control manager subsystem. The device access control manager subsystem identifies first application(s) configured for provisioning by the central processing subsystem and second application(s) configured for provisioning by the second computing system, configures the device access controller subsystem to provide the central processing subsystem access to a first subset of the devices to allow the central processing subsystem to provide the first application(s), and configures the device access controller subsystem to provide the second computing system access via the device access control manager subsystem to a second subset of the devices to allow the second computing device to provide the second application(s) using the second subset of the devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Walter A. O'Brien, III, Mukund P. Khatri, Mark Steven Sanders, William Price Dawkins, Elie Jreij, Robert W. Hormuth, Jimmy D. Pike, Gaurav Chawla
  • Publication number: 20230058909
    Abstract: A workload compliance governor system includes a management system coupled to a computing system. A workload compliance governor subsystem in the computing system receives a workload performance request associated with a workload, exchanges hardware compose communications with the management system to compose hardware components for the workload, and receives back an identification of hardware components. The workload compliance governor subsystem then determines that the identified hardware components satisfy hardware compliance requirements for the workload, and configures the identified hardware components in the computing system based on the software compliance requirements for the workload in order to cause those identified hardware components to provide an operating system and at least one application that operate to perform the workload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Mukund P. Khatri, Gaurav Chawla, William Price Dawkins, Elie Jreij, Mark Steven Sanders, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Robert W. Hormuth, Jimmy D. Pike
  • Publication number: 20230049895
    Abstract: A communication system personality provisioning system includes a communication system included in a computing system and coupled to a management system. The communication system stores authentication information in a UEFI database of a UEFI system in the communication system. The communication system receives a first operating software image and application/service from the management system, authenticates the first operating software image and application/service via first secure initialization operations performed by the UEFI system using the authentication information and, in response, installs the first operating software image and application/service on the communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Mukund P. Khatri, Jimmy D. Pike, Gaurav Chawla, William Price Dawkins, Elie Jreij, Mark Steven Sanders, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Robert W. Hormuth
  • Patent number: 11537705
    Abstract: A device access control system includes a first computing system that is coupled to a second computing system via a network, and that includes a device access controller subsystem coupled to devices, a central processing subsystem, and a device access control manager subsystem. The device access control manager subsystem identifies first application(s) configured for provisioning by the central processing subsystem and second application(s) configured for provisioning by the second computing system, configures the device access controller subsystem to provide the central processing subsystem access to a first subset of the devices to allow the central processing subsystem to provide the first application(s), and configures the device access controller subsystem to provide the second computing system access via the device access control manager subsystem to a second subset of the devices to allow the second computing device to provide the second application(s) using the second subset of the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Walter A. O'Brien, III, Mukund P. Khatri, Mark Steven Sanders, William Price Dawkins, Elie Jreij, Robert W. Hormuth, Jimmy D. Pike, Gaurav Chawla
  • Patent number: 11513699
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving, via a storage processor of a storage system, a write request for writing a data portion to a storage array enclosure of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drives communicatively coupled to the storage processor, where the write request may be received from a host. The data portion may be written to a persistent memory write cache within the storage array enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: EMP IP Holding Company, LLC
    Inventors: Walter A. O'Brien, III, Thomas N. Dibb, Randall H. Shain
  • Patent number: 11500994
    Abstract: A communication system personality provisioning system includes a communication system included in a computing system and coupled to a management system. The communication system stores authentication information in a UEFI database of a UEFI system in the communication system. The communication system receives a first operating software image and application/service from the management system, authenticates the first operating software image and application/service via first secure initialization operations performed by the UEFI system using the authentication information and, in response, installs the first operating software image and application/service on the communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Mukund P. Khatri, Jimmy D. Pike, Gaurav Chawla, William Price Dawkins, Elie Jreij, Mark Steven Sanders, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Robert W. Hormuth
  • Patent number: 11500683
    Abstract: A workload compliance governor system includes a management system coupled to a computing system. A workload compliance governor subsystem in the computing system receives a workload performance request associated with a workload, exchanges hardware compose communications with the management system to compose hardware components for the workload, and receives back an identification of hardware components. The workload compliance governor subsystem then determines that the identified hardware components satisfy hardware compliance requirements for the workload, and configures the identified hardware components in the computing system based on the software compliance requirements for the workload in order to cause those identified hardware components to provide an operating system and at least one application that operate to perform the workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Mukund P. Khatri, Gaurav Chawla, William Price Dawkins, Elie Jreij, Mark Steven Sanders, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Robert W. Hormuth, Jimmy D. Pike
  • Publication number: 20220236913
    Abstract: A system for managing storage of data in composed information handling systems includes a system control processor manager that identifies a compute resource set having compute resources specified by a composition request, identifies a hardware resource set having hardware resources specified by the composition request including a local data processor that services writes using a local device and a remote device, sets up storage management services for managing writes of data to the hardware resource set using a control resource set and the compute resource set to obtain logical hardware in which the local data processor preferentially services writes of the data using the local device rather than the remote device, and presents the logical hardware resources using the control resource set to the compute resource set as bare metal resources to instantiate a composed information handling system to service the composition request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Walter A. O'Brien, III, Doron Tal, Rivka Mayraz Matosevich
  • Patent number: 11397834
    Abstract: A method for storing encrypted data in a non-volatile memory device, that includes receiving, by a processor, an indication of a power interruption event; disabling, based on the indication, decryption of encrypted data read from a volatile memory module; copying the encrypted data from the volatile memory module to cache; and copying the encrypted data from the cache to the non-volatile memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Walter A. O'Brien, III, Thomas N. Dibb
  • Publication number: 20220179698
    Abstract: A method for managing composed information handling systems includes obtaining, by a system control processor, a composition request for a composed information handling system of the composed information handling systems, wherein the composition request comprises an operational instances requirement, and initially allocating only a minimum number of instances of a resource based on the operational instances requirement to the composed information handling system, wherein at least one of the minimum number of instances of the resource is provided by a first information handling system, wherein the first information handling system is operatively connected to the system control processor manager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: William Price Dawkins, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Yossef Saad, Mukund P. Khatri, Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, Elie Antoun Jreij, Jimmy Doyle Pike