Oracle Assigned Patent

Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,364,923) developed by John Timothy O’Brien, Michael Steven Milillo, Louisville, CO, and Carl Thomas Madison Jr., Windsor, CO, for a "storage system manager and method for managing a storage system."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A storage system manager includes one or more servers, at least one data collector deployed on at least one of the servers, at least one policy engine deployed on at least one of the servers, and at least one configuration manager deployed on at least one the servers. The at least one data collector is configured to collect resource utilization information including storage wear rate of storage system storage modules. The at least one policy engine is configured to evaluate the collected information and to initiate changes to a configuration of the storage system based on storage wear rate and work load distribution policies. The at least one configuration manager is configured to implement the changes initiated by the at least one policy engine to control the storage wear rate and a skew of the work load distribution within the storage system."

The patent application was filed on March 30, 2009 (12/414,121).