Zhejiang Uniview Technologies Assigned Patent

Zhejiang Uniview Technologies Co., Ltd, Zhejiang, China, has been assigned a patent (9,697,078) developed by Cheng, Hao, and Ding, Qiang, HangZhou, China, for a “method and device for auto recovery storage of JBOD array.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for auto recovery storage of JBOD array is disclosed. The method includes: determining whether a disk of the JBOD array is failed, deleting a storage resource according to a storage resource list for the failed disk is stored with an index area upon determining the failed disk, updating the index area corresponding to a recorded data area when the failed disk is stored with the storage resource of the recorded data area instead of the index area, transmitting control instructions indicative of adding a hot spare to the JBOD array to add the hot spare to the JBOD array, and adding the storage resource and activating the storage resource for the failed disk stored with the index area after the hot spare is added to the JBOD array.“

The patent application was filed on November 8, 2013 (14/411,896).