Tsao Assigned Patent

Tsao (no web site), Sheng Tai, Ted, Fremont, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,106,677), for a “method and apparatus for web based storage on-demand.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Rapid demanding for storage capacity at internet era requires a much flexible and powerful storage infrastructure. Present invention disclosed a type of storage system based a model of centrally controlled distributed scalable virtual machine. In this model, one or more service pools including virtual storage service pool and application service pools can be automatically created to meet the demands for more storage capacity from various applications. Specially this model provide a solid foundation for distributing storage volumes for supporting storage on-demand and sharing with exceptional management capabilities. In addition, this model provides a flexible fault recovery topology beyond the traditional recovery plan.“

The patent application was filed on October 31, 2014 (14/530,613).