Patents by Inventor Youji Nakatani

Youji Nakatani 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: 20240126935
    Abstract: A data processing system according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit and a production unit. The acquisition unit acquires on-site investigation data related to the space. The production unit changes, with respect to article data of the article to be placed in the space, at least one of a dimension, design, and a function on the basis of the on-site investigation data so as to achieve harmony with the space and produces article processing data for processing the article according to the article data after the change. The on-site investigation data includes space-related data related to the space. The production unit produces the article processing data on the basis of the space-related data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Youji URANO, Yoshinori NISHIMURA, Tomokazu KUSUNOKI, Kazuo NISHIMURA, Ken UENO, Tomohiro NAKATANI
  • Patent number: 10884881
    Abstract: Proposed is a scale-out-type storage system which implements high-availability, high-speed failover. In a scale-out-type storage system, two or more nodes each comprise a cluster controller, a node controller, a plurality of subcluster processes (subclusters and the like) which are processes which execute I/O processing in their own node, which form a subcluster between processes in their own node, and which are synchronized with work-type (active)/standby-type (passive) corresponding processes in the other nodes, and a nonvolatile data store (SODB). The configuration information of the storage system is held partitioned into global configuration information of the SODB and local configuration information and the like of the subclusters and the like, and thereupon the working-type subcluster is capable of executing I/O processing without accessing the SODB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Miyata, Youji Nakatani, Masaki Muraoka, Atsushi Miyagaki
  • Publication number: 20200019478
    Abstract: Proposed is a scale-out-type storage system which implements high-availability, high-speed failover. In a scale-out-type storage system, two or more nodes each comprise a cluster controller, a node controller, a plurality of subcluster processes (subclusters and the like) which are processes which execute I/O processing in their own node, which form a subcluster between processes in their own node, and which are synchronized with work-type (active)/standby-type (passive) corresponding processes in the other nodes, and a nonvolatile data store (SODB). The configuration information of the storage system is held partitioned into global configuration information of the SODB and local configuration information and the like of the subclusters and the like, and thereupon the working-type subcluster is capable of executing I/O processing without accessing the SODB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki MIYATA, Youji NAKATANI, Masaki MURAOKA, Atsushi MIYAGAKI
  • Patent number: 9092446
    Abstract: In a first file storage apparatus, a first controller, which manages a first file system comprising a plurality of files, transfers a copy of the first file to a second file storage apparatus when managing the first file, manages the copy of the first file as a first replication file, configures the replication destination of the first replication file in the first file as a first pointer and, when processing a second file as a de-duplication target file, manages the first replication file as a copy of the first file and second file, configures a first pointer in the second file, and deletes the first data on condition that the storage destination of the first data which comprises the first file has been configured in the first file, or deletes the second data on condition that the storage destination of the second data which comprises the second file has been configured in the second file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Kishimoto, Youji Nakatani, Mitsunori Satomi, Yoji Sunada
  • Publication number: 20140149476
    Abstract: In a first file storage apparatus, a first controller, which manages a first file system comprising a plurality of files, transfers a copy of the first file to a second file storage apparatus when managing the first file, manages the copy of the first file as a first replication file, configures the replication destination of the first replication file in the first file as a first pointer and, when processing a second file as a de-duplication target file, manages the first replication file as a copy of the first file and second file, configures a first pointer in the second file, and deletes the first data on condition that the storage destination of the first data which comprises the first file has been configured in the first file, or deletes the second data on condition that the storage destination of the second data which comprises the second file has been configured in the second file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: Satoru Kishimoto, Youji Nakatani, Mitsunori Satomi, Yoji Sunada
  • Patent number: 7587436
    Abstract: There has never been disclosed a method of executing migration on a fine-grained basis than a file system basis in a manner that is transparent to clients in a storage system with a plurality of servers to which a global name space is applied. In a storage system with a plurality of servers and a disk subsystem, which is coupled to the plurality of servers, a file system in the disk subsystem is assigned a first identifier, which is unique throughout the storage system, at least one of directories contained in the file system is assigned a second identifier, which is unique throughout the storage system, and a file contained in the file system is assigned a third identifier, which is unique throughout the file system. The server identifies a file below the directory that has the second identifier by the second identifier and by the third identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakuni Agetsuma, Youji Nakatani, Takaki Nakamura