Inventions
Patents & innovations
Six awarded patents spanning Fibre Channel load balancing, distributed storage virtualization, and high-speed interconnect — filed during Howard Young's tenure at LSI Logic, QLogic, and Troika Networks.
Awarded patents
Each patent represents a solution to a real performance or scalability problem encountered at the limits of enterprise storage engineering.
Methods and apparatus for cut-through cache management for a mirrored virtual volume of a virtualized storage system
US8504766 · Issued Aug 6, 2013
Methods and Apparatus for Managing Asynchronous Dependent I/O for a Virtual Fibre Channel Target
US8489940 · Issued Jul 16, 2013
Apparatus and methods for managing expanded capacity of virtual volumes in a storage system
US8261003 · Issued Sep 4, 2012
Apparatus and methods for look-ahead virtual volume meta-data processing in a storage controller
US8255634 · Issued Aug 28, 2012
Apparatus and methods for real-time routing of received commands in a split-path architecture storage controller
US8176218 · Issued May 8, 2012
Innovation backed by invention
The same depth of thinking behind these patents informs every Howard Young Tech engagement.