Oracle Assigned Patent

Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,156,281) developed by five co-inventors for a "data storage system and method using storage profiles to define and modify storage pools."

The co-inventors are George J. Grosner, Santa Clara, CA, Sonja C. Hickey, Wilmette, IL, Gaurav Chawla, Richard C. Barlow and Mark A. Parenti, Santa Clara, CA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for allocating storage in a data storage system using one or more storage profiles. A set of storage profiles are provided that each has a set of parameters with values defined for the data storage system and for particular client applications. The method includes receiving a selection of one of the storage profiles, such as from an administrative user interface generated by a storage manager running in conjunction with the data storage system. The selected storage profile is then applied to the data storage system to allocate a portion of the data storage system to a storage pool which is defined by the values of the set of parameters in the selected storage profile. The method includes creating a user-defined storage profile by copying parameters from one of the provided storage profiles and allowing a user to modify or accept the parameters."

The patent application was filed on Dec. 7, 2004 (11/005,756).