Toshio Otani

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Sunnyvale, CA, US

People

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus to manage object based tier
- Patent number 9,292,218
- Issue date Mar 22, 2016
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Shinichi Hayashi
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus of cluster system provisioning for virtual mac...
- Patent number 8,856,337
- Issue date Oct 7, 2014
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Toshio Otani
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Multipath switching over multiple storage systems
- Patent number 8,762,668
- Issue date Jun 24, 2014
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Yuichi Taguchi
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Application and tier configuration management in dynamic page reall...
- Patent number 8,566,550
- Issue date Oct 22, 2013
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Tomohiro Kawaguchi
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus to manage object-based tiers
- Patent number 8,504,764
- Issue date Aug 6, 2013
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Shinichi Hayashi
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus of tier storage management awareness networking
- Patent number 8,473,643
- Issue date Jun 25, 2013
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Toshio Otani
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus to manage object based tier
- Patent number 8,464,003
- Issue date Jun 11, 2013
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Shinichi Hayashi
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for HBA migration
- Patent number 8,375,111
- Issue date Feb 12, 2013
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Toshio Otani
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for block based volume backup
- Patent number 8,370,302
- Issue date Feb 5, 2013
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Toshio Otani
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus of data protection
- Patent number 8,370,300
- Issue date Feb 5, 2013
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Toshio Otani
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus for managing virtual ports and logical units...
- Patent number 8,364,869
- Issue date Jan 29, 2013
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Hiroshi Arakawa
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus of storage array with frame forwarding capability
- Patent number 8,281,050
- Issue date Oct 2, 2012
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Toshio Otani
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus for managing virtual ports and logical units...
- Patent number 8,260,986
- Issue date Sep 4, 2012
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Hiroshi Arakawa
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for logical volume management
- Patent number 8,166,264
- Issue date Apr 24, 2012
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Toshio Otani
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for logical volume management for virtual mach...
- Patent number 8,122,212
- Issue date Feb 21, 2012
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Toshio Otani
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for HBA migration
- Patent number 7,991,860
- Issue date Aug 2, 2011
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Toshio Otani
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus for archiving digital data
- Patent number 7,861,049
- Issue date Dec 28, 2010
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Toshio Otani
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE OBJECT BASED TIER
- Publication number 20160170655
- Publication date Jun 16, 2016
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Shinichi HAYASHI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE OBJECT BASED TIER
- Publication number 20130262774
- Publication date Oct 3, 2013
- Shinichi HAYASHI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
NODE PROVISIONING OF I/O MODULE HAVING ONE OR MORE I/O DEVICES
- Publication number 20130179601
- Publication date Jul 11, 2013
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio Otani
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CLUSTER SYSTEM PROVISIONING FOR VIRTUAL MAC...
- Publication number 20130046892
- Publication date Feb 21, 2013
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio OTANI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL PORTS AND LOGICAL UNITS...
- Publication number 20120317311
- Publication date Dec 13, 2012
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Hiroshi Arakawa
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS OF TIER STORAGE MANAGEMENT AWARENESS NETWORKING
- Publication number 20120284431
- Publication date Nov 8, 2012
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio OTANI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DATA PROTECTION
- Publication number 20120284233
- Publication date Nov 8, 2012
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio OTANI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MULTIPATH SWITCHING OVER MULTIPLE STORAGE SYSTEMS
- Publication number 20120131289
- Publication date May 24, 2012
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Yuichi TAGUCHI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BACKUP OF VIRTUAL MACHINE DATA
- Publication number 20120072685
- Publication date Mar 22, 2012
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio OTANI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE OBJECT-BASED TIERS
- Publication number 20120054407
- Publication date Mar 1, 2012
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Shinichi HAYASHI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS OF STORAGE ARRAY WITH FRAME FORWARDING CAPABILITY
- Publication number 20120047293
- Publication date Feb 23, 2012
- Hitachi Data Systems Corporation
- Toshio OTANI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HBA MIGRATION
- Publication number 20110283026
- Publication date Nov 17, 2011
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio Otani
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORAGE I/O PATH CONFIGURATION
- Publication number 20110276728
- Publication date Nov 10, 2011
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio Otani
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE OBJECT BASED TIER
- Publication number 20110202705
- Publication date Aug 18, 2011
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Shinichi HAYASHI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR I/O PATH SWITCHING
- Publication number 20110153905
- Publication date Jun 23, 2011
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio OTANI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL PORTS AND LOGICAL UNITS...
- Publication number 20110078334
- Publication date Mar 31, 2011
- HITACHI, LTD.
- Hiroshi Arakawa
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
APPLICATION AND TIER CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT IN DYNAMIC PAGE REALL...
- Publication number 20110072225
- Publication date Mar 24, 2011
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Tomohiro KAWAGUCHI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTERNAL LOGICAL STORAGE VOLUME MANAGEMENT
- Publication number 20110060883
- Publication date Mar 10, 2011
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio OTANI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOCK BASED VOLUME BACKUP
- Publication number 20100306174
- Publication date Dec 2, 2010
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio OTANI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGEMENT FOR VIRTUAL MACH...
- Publication number 20100257326
- Publication date Oct 7, 2010
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio Otani
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DATE VOLUME MIGRATION WITH MIGRATION LOG CONFIRMATION
- Publication number 20100235592
- Publication date Sep 16, 2010
- Yasunori Kaneda
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGEMENT
- Publication number 20100199053
- Publication date Aug 5, 2010
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio OTANI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOURCE PROVISIONING
- Publication number 20100100878
- Publication date Apr 22, 2010
- Toshio Otani
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Method and apparatus for storage migration
- Publication number 20100070722
- Publication date Mar 18, 2010
- Toshio Otani
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED NAS AND CAS DATA BACKUP
- Publication number 20090319736
- Publication date Dec 24, 2009
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio Otani
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HBA MIGRATION
- Publication number 20090254640
- Publication date Oct 8, 2009
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio Otani
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ARCHIVING DIGITAL DATA
- Publication number 20090132775
- Publication date May 21, 2009
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Toshio OTANI
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Toshio Otani

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Method and apparatus to manage object based tier

Method and apparatus of cluster system provisioning for virtual mac...

Multipath switching over multiple storage systems

Application and tier configuration management in dynamic page reall...

Method and apparatus to manage object-based tiers

Method and apparatus of tier storage management awareness networking

Method and apparatus to manage object based tier

Method and apparatus for HBA migration

Method and apparatus for block based volume backup

Method and apparatus of data protection

Methods and apparatus for managing virtual ports and logical units...

Method and apparatus of storage array with frame forwarding capability

Methods and apparatus for managing virtual ports and logical units...

Method and apparatus for logical volume management

Method and apparatus for logical volume management for virtual mach...

Method and apparatus for HBA migration

Methods and apparatus for archiving digital data

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE OBJECT BASED TIER

METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE OBJECT BASED TIER

NODE PROVISIONING OF I/O MODULE HAVING ONE OR MORE I/O DEVICES

METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CLUSTER SYSTEM PROVISIONING FOR VIRTUAL MAC...

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL PORTS AND LOGICAL UNITS...

METHOD AND APPARATUS OF TIER STORAGE MANAGEMENT AWARENESS NETWORKING

METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DATA PROTECTION

MULTIPATH SWITCHING OVER MULTIPLE STORAGE SYSTEMS

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BACKUP OF VIRTUAL MACHINE DATA

METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE OBJECT-BASED TIERS

METHOD AND APPARATUS OF STORAGE ARRAY WITH FRAME FORWARDING CAPABILITY

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HBA MIGRATION

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORAGE I/O PATH CONFIGURATION

METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE OBJECT BASED TIER

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR I/O PATH SWITCHING

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL PORTS AND LOGICAL UNITS...

APPLICATION AND TIER CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT IN DYNAMIC PAGE REALL...

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTERNAL LOGICAL STORAGE VOLUME MANAGEMENT

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOCK BASED VOLUME BACKUP

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGEMENT FOR VIRTUAL MACH...

DATE VOLUME MIGRATION WITH MIGRATION LOG CONFIRMATION

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGEMENT

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOURCE PROVISIONING

Method and apparatus for storage migration

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED NAS AND CAS DATA BACKUP

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HBA MIGRATION

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ARCHIVING DIGITAL DATA