Drobo Assigned Patent

Drobo, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,156,303) developed by Geoffrey S. Barrall, San Jose, CA, for a "storage system condition indicator and method."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A storage system condition indicator and method provides a visual display representing the operating condition of a set of storage devices. Various operating conditions may be defined based on available storage capacity and capacity to store data redundantly. One or more indicators may be used to represent the operating condition of the set of storage devices. The indicator(s) may be used to indicate whether additional storage capacity is recommended and, in a storage array, which slot in the array should be updated with additional storage capacity."

The patent application was filed on Oct. 18, 2010 (12/906,848).