Dell Assigned Two Patents
On HDD temperature control and systems with differentiated storage pools
By Jean Jacques Maleval | July 11, 2012 at 2:48 pmHDD Temperature Control
Dell Products LP, Round Rock, TX has been assigned a patent (8,200,358) developed by Eric Neil Sendelbach and Matt Tavasoli, Austin, TX, and Travis Christian North, Pflugerville, TX, for a "hard drive temperature control."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A Hard Disk Drive (HDD) temperature control system includes an HDD including a temperature sensor. An Operating System (OS) driver is coupled to the temperature sensor and includes a temperature data retrieval engine that is operable to retrieve HDD temperature data from the temperature sensor and transmit the HDD temperature data. A shared data storage is coupled to the OS driver and operable to store the HDD temperature data transmitted from the temperature data retrieval engine. A fan speed controller is coupled to the shared data storage and operable to use the HDD temperature data stored in the shared data storage to adjust the speed of a fan."
The patent application was filed on Nov. 25, 2008 (12/277,341).
Storage Systems Having Differentiated Storage Pools
Dell Products LP, Round Rock, TX has been assigned a patent (8,209,515) developed by Eric R. Schott, Epsom, NH, for a "storage systems having differentiated storage pools."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The systems and methods described herein include among other things, systems for providing a block level data storage service. More particularly, the systems and methods of the invention provide a block level data storage service that provides differentiated pools of storage on a single storage device. To this end, the systems and methods described herein leverage the different performance characteristics across the logical block name (LBN) space of the storage device (or devices). These different performance characteristics may be exploited to support two or more classes of storage on a single device."
The patent application was filed on May 2, 2011 (13/099,057).
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