HP Assigned Two Patents

Log driven storage controller with network persistent memory
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX, has been assigned a patent (8,706,687) developed by Sam Fineberg, Pleasanton, CA, and Pankaj Mehra, Palo Alto, CA, for a “log driven storage controller with network persistent memory.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of updating database volumes by writing database updates to a smart storage controller, and having the smart storage controller generate the log update records for updating local and remote log volumes, and data volumes.”

The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2007 (11/626,678).

Recovery procedure for storage system
Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, TX, has been assigned a patent (8,707,098) developed by four co-inventors for a “recovery procedure for a storage system.”

The co-inventors are Eric A. Anderson, Palo Alto, CA, Xiaozhou Li, Cupertino, CA, Mehul A. Shah, Saratoga, CA, and John J. Wylie, San Francisco, CA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of recovering a value in a data storage system includes maintaining a list of entries corresponding to values that have been inserted into the data storage system, determining whether the values are at an At Maximum Redundancy (AMR) state, and if not, the converging the values to the AMR state.”

The patent application was filed on Jan. 14, 2010 (13/259,221).