Aaron Twohig

This invention solves issues with Daylight Savings Time (DST). The mechanism supports DST-Compliant Time Windows in a Globally Distributed Management System. People express time windows in local time e.g. Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm New York time, but control agents typically use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) internally. Time windows defined in DST local times cannot be simply expressed in UTC, so this system monitors and updates the UTC values to match the users intentions.

Storage array health scores based on alerts are auto-corrected using alert validation and matching techniques that include the use of Jaro-Winkler distance calculations.

A mechanism for creating and maintaining complex job reports using a combination of strongly typed and weakly typed mechanisms. Strongly typed models are used in the server and client to abstract and decouple the details of the output format (pdf, etc.). This future-proofs the report data structures and transmission mechanisms, and allows easy and safe switching of the output format (pdf, excel, word, etc.).

A novel mechanism to maintain an accurate health assessment of a storage array by automatically detecting and removing obsolete alerts as new information becomes available.

A system that allows storage management systems to communicate without typical network connectivity (TCP/IP). It uses private data replication channels, and provides full support for object oriented communication.

Mechanism for capturing GUI operations and producing an equivalent executable script in various languages (e.g. python).

Implementation of a strongly typed message bus in a weakly typed language (JavaScript)