HP Assigned Patent

Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP, Houston, TX, has been assigned a patent (8,843,667) developed by four co-inventors for “storage methods and storage systems.“

The co-inventors are Michael G. Myrah, Cypress, TX, Martin R. Rogoff, Houston, TX, alaji Natrajan, Spring, TX, and Aaron L. Jenkins, Tomball, TX.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Data storage methods and data storage systems are disclosed. An example method includes detecting a presence of a target device on a port; collecting detailed drive information associated with the target device; and preventing an initiator device from creating an affiliation with the target device until the drive information is collected.”

The patent application was filed on June 29, 2011 (13/171,995).