Patents by Inventor Walter W. Bellamy

Walter W. Bellamy 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).

  • Non-volatile cache
    Patent number: 9535835
    Abstract: A method for managing a storage device including determining whether the storage device includes a non-volatile cache, scanning for a clear cache instruction received from a computing machine, and clearing the non-volatile cache on the storage device in response to authenticating the clear cache instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Leonard E. Russo, Walter A. Gaspard, Walter W. Bellamy
  • NON-VOLATILE CACHE
    Publication number: 20130067149
    Abstract: A method for managing a storage device including determining whether the storage device includes a non-volatile cache, scanning for a clear cache instruction received from a computing machine, and clearing the non-volatile cache on the storage device in response to authenticating the clear cache instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Leonard E. Russo, Walter A. Gaspard, Walter W. Bellamy
  • ERROR LOGGING IN A STORAGE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120260138
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for operating a storage drive. The method includes receiving a storage command from an initiator and generating an error in response to the storage command. The method also includes adding a check condition data parameter to a check condition log stored to a storage media of the storage drive. The check condition data parameter comprises a physical memory address corresponding to a physical location of a storage element corresponding to the error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Robert L. Downing, III, Walter W. Bellamy, Terry W. Denney