Synology Assigned Four Patents

Performing memory space reservation and management
Synology Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,379,777) developed by Ke, Kun-Cing, Taipei, Taiwan, for “method for performing replication control in storage system with aid of relationship tree within database, and associated apparatus.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for performing replication control in a storage system and an associated apparatus are provided. The method may include: recording relationships between a protection target in a first storage server and a plurality of snapshots of the protection target in a database of the first storage server and updating the database during recording the relationships, selecting a non-replicated snapshot that has not been replicated from the first storage server to a second storage server, selecting a replicated snapshot that has been replicated from the first storage server to the second storage server as reference of replication difference calculation according to a relationship tree within the database, generating snapshot difference data between the non-replicated snapshot and the replicated snapshot, and transmitting the snapshot difference data from the first storage server to the second storage server, to replicate the non-replicated snapshot from the first storage server to the second storage server.”

The patent application was filed on June 19, 2017 (15/627,404).

Performing memory space reservation and management
Synology Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,365,999) developed by Tsai, Chuan-Yu, and Lin, Yi-Chun, Taipei, Taiwan, for “method and apparatus for performing memory space reservation and management.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method and an apparatus for performing memory space reservation and management are provided, wherein the method is applied to a server system. The method includes: providing a mount point at a file system of a server in the server system, and creating a file at the mount point to occupy partial memory space of a physical memory, mapping the file to a section of virtual memory addresses to prevent any swap operation from being applied to the partial memory space, and updating file information of the file into a memory space management list to dynamically manage the partial memory space.”

The patent application was filed on November 14, 2017 (15/811,698).

Associated server for ensuring data security under high access
Synology Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,334,019) developed by Lee, Yi-Chien, Taipei, Taiwan, for “method and associated server for ensuring data security under high access efficiency.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A server includes a HTTP module and a CGI module, where the HTTP module includes a configuration file, and the configuration file describes an application that has an authority to access files stored in the server. In the operations of the server, the HTTP module receives a request delivered from a device external to the server, and sends the request to the CGI module to determine whether the request has the authority or not, and the CGI module transmits the determination result to the HTTP module. If the request has the authority and the request satisfies the application described in the configuration file, the HTTP module reads and sends back the file corresponding to the request.”

The patent application was filed on October 6, 2016 (15/287,728).

Network address translation traversal
Synology Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,313,302) developed by Chen, Kan-Yueh, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Wang, Tsung-Wei, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and Liu, Jia-Yu, New Taipei, Taiwan, for “methods for NAT, (network address translation) traversal and systems using the same.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The invention introduces a method for NAT, (Network Address Translation) traversal, performed by a processing unit of a node, which contains at least the following steps: issuing an initial packet to an intermediate server through a router, in which the initial packet at least contains ID, (identity) information of the node, and periodically sending packets to a black hole through the router, so that the router maintains session information between the node and the black hole.”

The patent application was filed on August 18, 2016 (15/240,376).