Mark Henry Mills

US Patent:

7779368, Aug 17, 2010

Filed:

Oct 30, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/978171

Inventors:

James Wichelman - Fort Collins CO, US
Peter M. Maddocks - Windsor CO, US
Mark Mills - Fort Collins CO, US
Gary L. Thunquest - Berthoud CO, US

Assignee:

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

International Classification:

G06F 3/048
G06F 3/00

US Classification:

715833, 715734, 715735, 715736, 715771, 711114, 711173, 703 22, 703 25

Abstract:

Systems and methods for presenting managed data from one or more applications are invented and disclosed. A data storage management system comprises a data store, a data storage manager, and a graphical user interface. The data storage manager is communicatively coupled to the data store and configured to allocate and use logical and physical storage elements of the data store via an application instance. The graphical user interface exposes data storage in application specific storage units. A method for managing data comprises coupling a data store to one or more applications, allocating storage on the data store in accordance with respective storage requirements expressed as an application instance associated with each of the one or more applications, and using a graphical user interface to expose the data store in application storage units associated with the one or more applications.

US Patent:

20060095705, May 4, 2006

Filed:

Oct 30, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/978259

Inventors:

James Wichelman - Fort Collins CO, US
Peter Maddocks - Windsor CO, US
Mark Mills - Fort Collins CO, US
Gary Thunquest - Berthoud CO, US

International Classification:

G06F 12/00

US Classification:

711171000, 711170000

Abstract:

Systems and methods for data storage management are invented and disclosed. A data storage management system comprises an accessible data store and a data storage manager. The data storage manager is communicatively coupled to the data store and configured to allocate and use logical and physical storage elements of the data store via an application instance that exposes data storage in application specific storage units. A method for managing data comprises coupling a data store to one or more applications, allocating storage on the data store in accordance with respective optimized/best practice storage requirements expressed as an application instance associated with each of the one or more applications, and exposing the data store in application storage units associated with the one or more applications.

US Patent:

58525351, Dec 22, 1998

Filed:

Feb 29, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/609254

Inventors:

Kenneth G. Richardson - Fort Collins CO
Mark Millican - Boulder CO
Erik Habbinga - Longmont CO
Mark E. Mills - Loveland CO
Stephen G. Uhlmann - Loveland CO
Mark E. Nash - Lyons CO

Assignee:

Hewlett-Packard Company - Palo Alto CA

International Classification:

G11B 5584
G11B 502

US Classification:

360 7712

Abstract:

A method for reliably measuring preformatted servo patterns, on a magnetic tape, for positioning a magnetic head. The tape has constant frequency stripes marking servo pattern areas. The drive reading the preformatted tape has a read channel amplifier with automatic gain control (AGC). When a stripe is detected, AGC is enabled. Before leaving a stripe, AGC is placed on hold. The amplitudes of two servo bursts are then measured with a gain that has been calibrated by a signal from a stripe. During the time AGC is enabled, the amplifier peak output is limited to less than half the maximum amplifier peak output. The servo pattern signal amplitude is about twice the signal amplitude of a stripe, so that servo patterns are measured with almost the maximum signal-to-noise ratio. When a stripe is detected, a counter counts pulses resulting from the stripe signal, for a fixed time, to ensure that the stripe detection is valid. If the stripe is qualified, the servo pattern measurements are used for head alignment adjustment.

US Patent:

63144336, Nov 6, 2001

Filed:

Jun 12, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/096784

Inventors:

Mark E. Mills - Loveland CO
John L. Moore - Solvang CA

Assignee:

Hewlett-Packard Company - Palo Alto CA

International Classification:

G06F 1730

US Classification:

707202

Abstract:

Frame-based heroic data recovery on data retrieved from mass storage in which identifiable blocks have been detected to be corrupt. Logical sets of blocks are configured into frames. The invention becomes operable when standard data recovery techniques such as Error Correction Code ("ECC"), working on a frame-by-frame basis, are unable to recover all the corrupt data within the frame because there are just too many corrupt data blocks. The invention then sequentially applies a preselected series of heroic techniques, each heroic technique in the series applied concurrently to all blocks in the frame. The invention combines the corrective effects of the individual applications of heroic techniques in the series, until sufficient individual data blocks overall in the frame are recovered to allow standard frame-based recovery techniques such as ECC to complete the job.

US Patent:

6188538, Feb 13, 2001

Filed:

Jun 19, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/100438

Inventors:

Mark E. Mills - Loveland CO
John L. Moore - Solvang CA

Assignee:

Hewlett Packard Company - Palo Alto CA

International Classification:

G11B 5596

US Classification:

360 7704

Abstract:

An improved heroic data recovery technique in which the inventive mechanism initially calibrates data storage devices' read/write mechanism misalignment characteristics and then reduces such calibration to an off-track positioning table. The table reflects a histogram indicating statistically where the misalignment is most likely to be found based on measurement of the characteristics of the device. The device's off-track positioning mechanism uses this table to execute a series of off-track read attempts in statistical order of likelihood of recovering unreadable data. The read head moves first to the off-track position in the table where statistically the misalignment is most likely to be found, and then to the next most likely, and so on, until the data is either found and recovered, or the series embodied in the table is exhausted. If the table becomes exhausted, an alternative heroic technique must be applied.

US Patent:

20210021469, Jan 21, 2021

Filed:

Jul 19, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/517236

Inventors:

- Redwood Shores CA, US
Mark Evan Mills - Fort Collins CO, US
Brandon Patrick Byers - Bonita CA, US
Prasanta Ranjan Dash - San Jose CA, US
Kenny Clayton Gross - Escondido CA, US

Assignee:

Oracle International Corporation - Redwood Shores CA

International Classification:

H04L 12/24
G06F 11/34
G06K 9/62
G06N 20/00

Abstract:

The embodiments disclosed herein relate to intelligent configuration of a cloud-service gateway based on a pattern recognition algorithm. A machine-learning model is trained to learn the patterns of correlation among many configuration parameters affecting the performance of the system when processing an observed or estimated workload. Training the model may be performed off-line with performance data observed during experiments performed with a variety of configurations and workloads. Once trained, the model may be used to recommend: (a) new configuration parameter values based on constraints of the system being configured, (b) an amount of work that can be performed at a certain performance level when the system is configured with certain parameter values, or (c) the expected performance level when running a certain workload on the system configured with certain configuration parameter values.