Qnap Assigned Two Patents

Data writing method of flask disk array based on residual lives of flash drives
Qnap Systems, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (11,119,680) developed by Hsu, Chin-Hsing, New Taipei, Taiwan, for a “data writing method of flask disk array based on residual lives of flash drives thereof.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data writing method of a flash disk array is provided. The data writing method includes steps of: obtaining a first data quantity, receiving intermediate data to be written into the flash disk array, comparing a second data quantity of the intermediate data with the first data quantity, and writing the intermediate data into the flash disk array when the second data quantity is not less than the first data quantity. At most one data block is allocated from each of flash drives. Some of the allocated data blocks are written with the intermediate data, while others of the allocated data blocks are not written with the intermediate data and provided as reserved blocks. The number of the reserved blocks has at least two selectable values dependent on residual lives of the flash drives.”

The patent application was filed on April 16, 2020 (16/850,894).

Network address analysis
Qnap Systems, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (11,050,860) developed by Cheng, Nai-Yuan, New Taipei, Taiwan, for “method and apparatus for network address analysis.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method and an apparatus for network address analysis are provided. In the method, unique identification information of a target client device located in a local area network is obtained. Packets transmitted in the local area network are listened, and a packet transmitted between the target client device and a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server is identified from the listened packets according to the unique identification information. Finally, the identified packet is analyzed to obtain a network address assigned to the target client device by the DHCP server.”

The patent application was filed on August 27, 2018 (16/112,809).