EMC Assigned Patent
Managing storage system by contacting single processor in storage system having more than one processor
By Jean Jacques Maleval | November 20, 2012 at 2:39 pmEMC Corp., Hopkinton, MA, has been assigned a patent (8,312,244) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for managing a data storage system by contacting a single processor in a data storage system having more than one processor."
The co-inventors are Britton James, Watertown, MA, Kevin S. Labonte, North Grafton, MA, Russell R. Laporte, Webster, MA, and Paul Lapomardo, Northborough, MA.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An architecture, system, and method for managing a data storage system by contacting a single processor in a data storage system having more than one processor. The single processor contacts each other peer processor in the data storage system and merges selected data from the single processor with data from the peer processor to determine the state of the data storage system."
The patent application was filed on April 5, 2011 (13/080,251).
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