ZTE Assigned Two Patents

Serving node for backup and restoration
ZTE Corporation, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, has been assigned a patent (9,286,319) developed by Hu, Huanhuan, Li, Haowei, and Guo, Bin, Shenzhen, China, for a “method, system and serving node for data backup and restoration.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed is a method, a system and a serving node for data backup and restoration, in which a serving node generates a backup schedule after receiving a data backup request, uploads the schedule to a cluster public storage block, each serving node sends a copy to be backed up to a target node for consolidation, a client sends a data record in a consolidated copy to the serving node through a data writing request, generates a data distribution table according to a load balancing principle, sends the request to other serving nodes according to the table to perform a write operation, the client sends the data writing request for a next data record after the write operation, until the copy is completely restored. The backup and restoration is performed in a complex cluster network accounting for performance differences among serving nodes, data consistency, data integrity and data uniform distribution.“

The patent application was filed on August 16, 2011 (14/006,674).

Identifying storage device
ZTE Corporation, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, has been assigned a patent (9,281,992) developed by Han, Shengzhong, Lei, Aimin, and Ji, Liang, Shenzhen, China, for a “method and system for identifying storage device.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The disclosure provides a method for identifying a storage device, which includes: obtaining, by a master control server, disk information of a storage device through a storage server, determining, by the master control server, that there is a storage device matching a device identifier according to the disk information, and entering a monitoring state, otherwise, creating a device identifier for the storage device and entering the monitoring state. The disclosure also provides a system for identifying a storage device. Through the method and the system, the storage devices are uniformly identified so as to facilitate unified management of the storage devices.“

The patent application was filed on December 19, 2011 (14/113,894).