Lenovo Assigned Four Patents

Data storage and electronic device
Lenovo, (Beijing) CO., Ltd., Haidian District, Beijing, China, has been assigned a patent (9,946,467) developed by Sun, Qingtao, Beijing, China, for a “data storage method and electronic device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage method and an electronic device are described where the method includes acquiring a running status parameter of an electronic device, determining, on the basis of the running status parameter, a data storage policy corresponding to the running status parameter, acquiring, on the basis of the data storage policy, target data corresponding to the data storage policy, and writing, on the basis of a data category of the target data, the target data into a flash or a cache of a solid state memory of the electronic device. The method is for solving the technical problem that the system’s data writing manner is fixed.”

The patent application was filed on December 17, 2015 (14/972,797).

Dynamically allocating temporary replacement storage for drive in raid array
Lenovo, (Singapore) Pte Ltd., Singapore, has been assigned a patent (9,921,783) developed by Rose, Amy Leigh, Chapel Hill, NC, Peterson, Nathan J., Durham, NC, Lee-Baron, Jennifer, Morrisville, NC, Crowe, John Scott, Durham, NC, and Loebach, James C., Raleigh, NC, for a “dynamically allocating temporary replacement storage for a drive in a raid array.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “One embodiment provides a system, including: one or more processors, a network interface for communication with a remote bank of available storage, a redundant array of independent disks, (RAID) operatively coupled to the one or more processors, and a memory operatively coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions executable by the one or more processors to: ascertain at least one unavailable hard disk drive, (HDD) of the RAID, determine an available remote storage target, dynamically update a storage destination for data to be stored from the at least one unavailable HDD of the RAID to the available remote storage target, and send the data over the network interface to the available remote storage target. Other embodiments are described and claimed.”

The patent application was filed on September 25, 2013 (14/036,589).

Configurable storage device and adaptive storage device array
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions, (Singapore) PTE. Ltd., New Tech Park, Singapore, has been assigned a patent (9,910,593) developed by Durham, Pamela C., Apex, NC, Stegner, Eric A., Durham, NC, Tan, Julian Sia Kai, Morrisville, NC, and Townsend, Eric W., Raleigh, NC, for a “configurable storage device and adaptive storage device array.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An array can include a controller and multiple storage devices of a first type. When a storage device of the first type is replaced by a replacement storage device of a second type, and other storage devices of the first type remain in the array, the controller instructs the replacement storage device to configure itself as a storage device of the first type. When the last storage device of the first type in the array is replaced by a replacement storage device of the second type, the controller instructs all the storage devices of the array to configure themselves as storage devices of the second type.”

The patent application was filed on October 14, 2015 (14/883,394).

Rack mountable computer system that includes microarray storage systems
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions, (Singapore) PTE. Ltd., New Tech Park, Singapore, has been assigned a patent (9,870,158) developed by Vojnovich, Theodore B., Raleigh, NC, for a “rack mountable computer system that includes microarray storage systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Data communications within a rack mountable microarray system includes: sending, from a microarray controller to a communication fabric, a request for data, where the microarray controller is one of the plurality of microarray controllers housed within a drive bay of an enclosure, where the enclosure includes a plurality of storage devices, and where the microarray controller controls one or more of the storage devices, determining, by the communication fabric, a destination microarray controller from among the plurality of microarray controllers, where the destination microarray controller controls another one or more of the storage devices, sending, from the destination microarray controller to the communication fabric, the data specified by the request for data, and receiving, at the microarray controller from the communication fabric, the data specified by the request for data.”

The patent application was filed on November 10, 2015 (14/936,780).