Lenovo Enterprise Solutions Assigned Patent

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions, (Singapore) PTE. Ltd., New Tech Park, Singapore, has been assigned a patent (10,355,925) developed by Condict, Michael Neil, Hurdle Mills, NC, Cosby, David W., Raleigh, NC, Hinkle, Jonathan Randall, Morrisville, NC, and Vojnovich, Theodore Brian, Raleigh, NC, for “autonomous generation and transmission of reportable events by fabric-attachable storage drive.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A fabric-attachable storage drive self-monitors a prespecified parameter. Responsive to detecting satisfaction of a prespecified condition, the storage drive autonomously generates a reportable event regarding the self-monitored prespecified parameter, and autonomously transmits the reportable event to a prespecified location on a network fabric to which the drive is connected. The storage drive can interact with other fabric-attachable storage drives to create a logical volume according to a specified logical data storage topology on a self-organized storage device group in a peer-to-peer manner. The storage drive can be a programmable non-volatile memory Express, (NVMe) storage drive exporting access thereto over an NVMe-over-fabric storage protocol, or a programmable storage drive lacking an external interface by which to connect to a host computing device storage device but that has a network interface connected to a network fabric.”

The patent application was filed on January 13, 2017 (15/406,299).