HP Assigned Two Patents

Coupling storage device to same server after movement in I/O system
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP, Houston, TX, has been assigned a patent (8,732,365) developed by Michael G. Myrah, Cypress, TX, Balaji Natrajan, Spring, TX, and Pruthviraj Herur Puttaiah, Tomball, TX, for “input/output system and methods to couple a storage device to the same server after movement in an input/output system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In an embodiment, a method of operating a zone manager of an input/out system includes, in response to a storage device being inserted into a particular storage-device location of the input/output system, determining whether the particular storage-device location and the storage device are assigned to a same server of the input/output system, and assigning the particular storage-device location and storage device to the same server in response to determining that the particular storage-device location and the storage device are not assigned to the same server.”

The patent application was filed on June 7, 2011 (13/154,611).

Storage and archiving spanning multiple storage systems
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP, Houston, TX, has been assigned a patent (8,745,010) developed by Steve Chan, Cupertino, CA, and Wei Huang, Los Altos, CA, for “storage and archiving spanning multiple storage systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Mutable portions of data are stored in a first storage system and immutable portions of the data are stored in a second storage system. Immutable portions and mutable portions of the data associated with the same time period are initially archived. After a period of time since the initial archiving, the mutable portions of the data from the first storage system that have been modified are supplemental archived. Integrity verifications of successfully performing the initial archiving and supplemental archiving are stored.”

The patent application was filed on April 12, 2012 (13/445,725).