Nimble Storage Assigned Patent

Nimble Storage, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,832,330) developed by Larry Lancaster, Alameda, CA, for the “analysis of storage system latency by correlating activity of storage system components with latency measurements.”

The abstract of the patent publshed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Described herein are methods, systems and machine-readable media that facilitate an analysis of the contributing factors of storage system latency. The variation over time of the storage system laten,is measured, along with the variation over time of the activity of various processes and/or components, the various processes and/or components being potentially contributing factors to the storage system latency. The latency measurements are correlated with the process and/or component measurements. High correlation, while not providing direct evidence of the causation of latency, is nevertheless used to identify likely factors (i.e., processes, components) contributing to latency. The latency measurements are plotte over time, the plot including supplemntal information indicating, at any time instant, likely factors contributing to the storage system latency.“

The patent application was filed on May 23, 2013 (13/901,197).