Infortrend Assigned Patent

Infortrend Technology, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (11,061,604) developed by Chou, Ching-Hao, Schnapp, Michael Gordon, and Hung, Ching-Hai, New Taipei, Taiwan, for “method and storage system architecture for accessing data by means of a compatible module.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A data storage system architecture for accessing data, having a plurality of data storage subsystems coupling to a host for receiving an I/O request from the host, is provided. Each of the plurality of the data storage subsystems has: a redundant array of independent disks layer (RAID layer) for generating a plurality of media extents; a virtualization module for generating one or more virtual volumes (VVs); an on-board load balance (OBLB) module for offering a data access interface between the host and the data storage system architecture to parse the I/O request into at least one sub-I/O request; and a media extent server (ME server) module to receive the at least one sub-I/O request and to determine the validity of the at least one sub-I/O request. Accordingly, the host is able to issue I/O requests to any one of the data storage subsystems.”

The patent application was filed on September 26, 2019 (Appl. No.16/583,276).