David Crowther

7308604, Dec 11, 2007

Jul 3, 2003

10/522973

Niall Seamus McDonnell - Portland OR, US
David Aaron Crowther - Aloha OR, US
Daniel Edwin Bame - Beaverton OR, US
Robert Ray Wood - Gaston OR, US

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne Billancourt

G06F 11/00

714 9, 714 5

A media area network includes a storage system having at least one storage device for storing digitized information. A host bus adapter provides a link between the storage system and a host system that provides overall control of the media area network. Within the host bus adapter, a lower-level port driver monitors communications between the storage system and the host bus adapter. In the event of a communications failure, the lower-level port driver initiates switching from a failed port to an alternative port, thereby achieving fail-over recovery. Allocating the responsibility for fail-over recovery to the lower-level port driver assures timely handling of port failures, thereby reducing potential latency delays.

7836101, Nov 16, 2010

Jun 4, 2003

10/519856

David Aaron Crowther - Aloha OR, US
Ravindra Kumar Rama Reddy - Beaverton OR, US
Andrew Eugene Adkins - Portland OR, US
Nanyu Cao - Portland OR, US

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne-Billancourt

G06F 17/30

707805, 709220, 711112

Management of one or more storage devices is achieved by first identifying each device by its make and model, and then establishing a database containing information about that device, such as (a) operational rules, (b) commands and (c) processing routines. From the information obtained from the database, a Graphical User Interface is created for display to afford a user at least one menu option for selection. Upon selecting the one menu option, the user obtains at least one of (a) a display of information associated with the identified storage device, and (b) execution of at least one process to control, at least in part, the operation of the identified storage device. The user's selection is processed and the Graphical User Interface is automatically updated in response to the processing of the user's selected menu option.

8281104, Oct 2, 2012

Jan 19, 2007

12/448461

David Aaron Crowther - Aloha OR, US
James Edward Pearce - Bramley, GB
John Robert Naylor - Lake Oswego OR, US

GVBB Holdings S.A.R.L. - Luxembourg

G06F 12/00

711173, 711114, 711E12001

A method includes designating at least three storage partitions on at least two logical drives, placing a first storage partition on a first of the logical drives adjacent to a second storage partition on a second of the logical drives separate from the first logical drives, and creating a third partition among both the first and second of the logical drives. The first, second and third partitions are balanced for storage access symmetry such that the drives bear equal storage placement.

20090043922, Feb 12, 2009

Nov 2, 2006

12/084409

David Aaron Crowther - Aloha OR, US

G06F 13/00

710 33

Increased efficiency within a system comprised of a plurality of storage devices (and ) is achieved by evaluating each request to determine: (i) current storage status of the storage devices; (ii) storage capability of the storage devices; and (iii) at least one characteristic of the media block undergoing storage. Selection of one of the plurality of storage devices occurs in accordance with evaluating the write request. Thereafter the media block gets written to the selected storage device.