Steven William Quinn

US Patent:

8001284, Aug 16, 2011

Filed:

Mar 18, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/050879

Inventors:

Steven Quinn - San Diego CA, US
Rick Stout - El Cajon CA, US
Justin O'Hagan - East Brisbane, AU

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd. - Tokyo

International Classification:

G06F 3/00
G06F 13/00
G06F 15/16
G06F 15/177

US Classification:

710 5, 710 8, 710 11, 710 36, 711100, 709203, 709220, 709230, 719328

Abstract:

Techniques for managing a storage environment. According to an embodiment of the present invention, high-level application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided that can be used by applications such as storage management applications (e. g. , ERM applications, SRM applications) to manage a storage environment. Using these APIs, an application can issue simple high-level commands to perform storage management operations without having to worry about the low level storage array-specific commands. Embodiments of the present invention handle the necessary translations between the high-level commands and the low-level storage array-specific commands or protocols.

US Patent:

7363390, Apr 22, 2008

Filed:

Feb 25, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/374319

Inventors:

Steven Quinn - San Diego CA, US
Rick Stout - El Cajon CA, US
Justin O'Hagan - East Brisbane, AU

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd. - Tokyo

International Classification:

G06F 3/00
G06F 13/12
G06F 15/16
G06F 15/173

US Classification:

710 5, 710 36, 710 62, 709227, 709230, 709238

Abstract:

Techniques for managing a storage environment. According to an embodiment of the present invention, high-level application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided that can be used by applications such as storage management applications (e. g. , ERM applications, SRM applications) to manage a storage environment. Using these APIs, an application can issue simple high-level commands to perform storage management operations without having to worry about the low level storage array-specific commands. Embodiments of the present invention handle the necessary translations between the high-level commands and the low-level storage array-specific commands or protocols.

US Patent:

20110238715, Sep 29, 2011

Filed:

Mar 25, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/731703

Inventors:

Steven T. Quinn - San Diego CA, US
Michael C. Hay - Yokohama, JP

Assignee:

HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS CORPORATION - Santa Clara CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707822, 715853, 707829, 707E1701

Abstract:

A method for representing a computer-related resource in a computer-related system environment comprises creating an object model of the resource, the object model including objects that correspond to components of the resource, configuration information of the objects, and relationships among the objects; providing a resource application program interface to allow communication with and access to the components of the resource; mapping the objects of the object model to files and directories of a file and directory structure; presenting the file and directory structure via a file system application program interface to allow an application to manipulate the files and directories so as to manipulate the components of the resource via the resource application program interface; and manipulating the components of the resource based on manipulation of the files and directories from the application.