Huawei Assigned Seven Patents

Cloud computing system and managing storage resources
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China, has been assigned a patent (9,635,097) developed by Wang, Li, Xi’an, China, Xu, Yizhen, Shanghai, China, and Wu, Xiaoming, Xi’an, China, for a “cloud computing system and method for managing storage resources therein.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A cloud computing system and a method therein. The cloud computing system includes: a resource server cluster, where the resource server cluster includes at least two resource servers, each resource server in the resource server cluster has at least one type of resources of computing resources and storage resources, and at least one resource server in the resource server cluster has computing resources and storage resources, a computing resource management module configured to manage the computing resources in the resource server cluster, so as to provide a virtual computing service, and a storage resource management module configured to manage a shared storage resource pool established using the storage resources in the resource server cluster, so as to provide a virtual storage service, where storage resources included in each storage resource pool are from at least two resource servers in the resource server cluster.”

The patent application was filed on June 18, 2014 (14/307,560).

Pushing memory data
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China, has been assigned a patent (9,632,938) developed by Chen, Mingyang, Chen, Mingyu, Cui, Zehan, and Chen, Licheng, Beijing, China, for a “method and apparatus for pushing memory data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method and an apparatus for pushing memory data from a memory to a push destination storage used to store data prefetched by a central processing unit, (CPU) in a computing system are disclosed. In the method, a memory controller of the computing system periodically generates a push command according to a push period. Then the memory controller acquires a push parameter of to-be-pushed data according to the push command and sends at least one memory access request to memory according to the push parameter, where the at least one memory access request is used to request the to-be-pushed data from the memory. After receiving the to-be-pushed data that is sent according to the at least one memory access request by the memory, the memory controller buffers the to-be-pushed data and pushes the to-be-pushed data from the data buffer to the push destination storage.”

The patent application was filed on April 7, 2015 (14/680,262).

Memory data migration
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China, has been assigned a patent (9,632,888) developed by Sun, Hongwei, Shen, Limei, Hangzhou, China, Lv, Teng, Shenzhen, China, Zhang, Dixuan, and Yang, Liping, Hangzhou, China, for a “memory data migration method and apparatus, and computer.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments of the present invention provide a memory data migration method and apparatus, and a computer, to migrate memory data that is in the computer. After acquiring a first trigger instruction, an operating system of the computer can suspend a task that is being executed, to execute memory data migration, determine a source memory card that stores to-be-migrated memory data, determine a backup memory card for the source memory card, and instruct a memory controller associated with the source memory card to perform the memory data migration, so that the memory controller associated with the source memory card reads memory data of the source memory card according to an instruction of the operating system, and writes the read memory data of the source memory card into the backup memory card.”

The patent application was filed on March 1, 2016 (15/058,100).

Reading and writing data
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China, has been assigned a patent (9,632,708) developed by Tao, Yidong, Shanghai, China, Chen, Shaojie, Hangzhou, China, and Dai, Yiping, Shenzhen, China, for a “method, apparatus, and system for reading and writing data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for reading and writing data, which relate to the computer field, can resolve a problem in the prior art that different algorithms need to be configured for write operations on storage devices of different optimization granularities. The method includes: acquiring first data to be written into a storage device and an address for the first data, acquiring, second data from the address of the storage device, acquiring configuration information, generating, according to the configuration information, a candidate data set, comparing data in the candidate data set with the second data, so as to acquire third data that is in the candidate data set and meets a preset rule, and writing the third data into the storage device according to the address.”

The patent application was filed on November 5, 2015 (14/933,785).

Media playback processing and control
Huawei Device Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China, has been assigned a patent (9,600,226) developed by Shan, Zhenwei, Zhu, Yu, Wu, Huangwei, and Zhang, Qinliang, Shenzhen, China, for a “media playback processing and control method, apparatus, and system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A media playback processing and control method, apparatus, and system are provided. The processing method includes: receiving, by a central server, a query request of a control device, and returning a query response to the control device according to a resource information table, receiving a resource request of a selected display device selected by the control device, and querying the resource information table, determining that a selected media resource corresponding to information about a selected storage path is stored on a first media server, MS, and determining a second MS with a conversion capability to convert a media format of the selected media resource into a media format supported by a playback capability of the selected display device, so as to enable the selected display device to play a media resource converted by the second MS from the selected media resource.”

The patent application was filed on August 7, 2014 (14/453,802).

Temporarily storing data and storage device
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China, has been assigned a patent (9,594,684) developed by Lan, Kejia, Cheng, Yongbo, Chengdu, China, and He, Chenghong, Shenzhen, China, for a “method for temporarily storing data and storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for temporarily storing data and a storage device is provided. The method for temporarily storing data is applied to the storage device, and the storage device includes a source agent and a target agent. The method includes: sending, by the source agent, a data obtaining request to the target agent, receiving, by the source agent, target data that is corresponding to the data obtaining request and is returned by the target agent, determining, by the source agent, whether a snooping request that is for the target data and sent by the target agent is received after the data obtaining request is sent and before the target data is received, where the snooping request indicates that the target agent is simultaneously processing an obtaining request from another source agent for the target data, and if the snooping request is received, discarding, by the source agent, the target data.”

The patent application was filed on June 5, 2015 (14/732,172).

Controlling quality of service of storage
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China, has been assigned a patent (9,594,518) developed by Zhang, Dong, Shenzhen, China, for a “method, apparatus and system for controlling quality of service of storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present invention provides a method, an apparatus, and a system for controlling quality of service of a storage system. The method includes: identifying a target data object, acquiring a storage address of the target data object stored in a storage device by searching a file system of the host, wherein the file system contains data mapping the data object to the storage address of the target data object, and sending the storage address to the storage device to instruct the storage device to perform quality of service control on access to the target data object at the storage address. The present invention solves the problems of resource waste and lower quality of service in a QoS control manner, and can satisfy user requirements more accurately.”

The patent application was filed on May 29, 2013 (13/904,776).