Qnap Assigned Patent

Qnap Systems, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,178,172) developed by Chen, Chun-Wei, and Chu, Yao-Ying, New Taipei, Taiwan, for an “electronic apparatus and method for expanding storage capacity of electronic apparatus.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An electronic apparatus and a method for expanding a storage capacity of the electronic apparatus are provided. In the method, at least one storage equipment on a network is searched and logged in by using a network interface. A virtual disk is established and a volume of at least one disk in each storage equipment is attached to the virtual disk as a physical volume of the electronic apparatus. The physical volume is transformed into a logical volume and a file system of the logical volume is established for providing the electronic device to access the logical volume”

The patent application was filed on June 16, 2016 (15/183,808).