Infortrend Assigned Patent

Infortrend Technology, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (9,946,460) developed by Schnapp, Michael Gordon, and Fang, Ching-Hua, Taipei, Taiwan, for a “storage subsystem and storage system architecture performing storage virtualization and method thereof.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for generating a virtual volume, (VV) in a storage system architecture. The architecture comprises a host and one or more disk array subsystems. Each subsystem comprises a storage controller. One or more of the subsystems comprises a physical storage device, (PSD) array. The method comprises the following steps: mapping the PSD array into a plurality of media extents, MEs, each of the MEs comprises a plurality of sections, providing a virtual pool, (VP) to implement a section cross-referencing function, wherein a section index, (SI) of each of the sections contained in the VP is defined by the VP to cross-reference VP sections to physical ME locations, providing a conversion method or procedure or function for mapping VP capacity into to a VV, and presenting the VV to the host. A storage subsystem and a storage system architecture performing the method are also provided.”

The patent application was filed on March 5, 2017 (15/450,009).