Promise Assigned Patent

Promise Technology, Inc., Milpitas, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,087,019) developed by Govindasamy, Raghuraman, San Jose, CA, Rowlands, Mohan B., Union City, CA, and Kumar, Ganesh, San Jose, CA, for a “disk storage system with rebuild sequence and method of operation thereof.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method of operation of a disk storage system includes: providing a disk storage controller, coupling a first physical disk to the disk storage controller, detecting a failure of the first physical disk, and rebuilding a first logical drive, after replacing the first physical disk, includes: selecting a selected stripe of the first logical drive, reading a selected stripe status of the selected stripe, and marking the selected stripe as on-line in the selected stripe status.“

The patent application was filed on January 27, 2012 (13/360,636).