Wipro Assigned Patent

Wipro Limited, Bangalore, India , has been assigned a patent (10,303,572) developed by Das, Rishav, Howrah, India, and Singh, Karanjit, Tarn-Taran, India, for “methods and systems for improving fault tolerance in storage area network.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for improving fault tolerance in virtual storage area network. In one embodiment, a virtual storage area network fault tolerance apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises one or more hardware processors and one or more memory units storing instructions executable by the one or more hardware processors for identifying a fault associated with a hard drive included in a first disk array that includes one or more parity drives, determining that the one or more parity drives included in the first disk array are already in use, receiving an indication that one or more parity drives included in a second disk array are available for providing fault tolerance for the first disk array, and transferring data associated with the hard drive included in the first disk array for storage in the one or more parity drives included in the second disk array.”

The patent application was filed on March 17, 2017 (15/461,993).