Guangzhou Feixi Technology Assigned Patent

Guangzhou Feixi Technology Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, China, has been assigned a patent (11,347,421) developed by Lo, Horatio, Guangzhou, China, for “node device for storage area network and method for maintaining data consistency.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A first node is configured to connect a second node to form a node group, wherein the first node and the second node have a first datum and a second datum respectively, the first datum has the same content as the second datum, and the first node includes a storage device and a server. The server is configured to electrically connect the storage device and has a processor including a Linux program arbiter communicating with the second node, wherein the Linux program arbiter includes a permitting unit and a write-protection unit. The permitting unit is configured to allow a first request when receiving the first request for overwriting the first datum, and the write-protection unit is configured to prevent the second node from overwriting the second datum before the first datum is overwritten by a third datum and the second node replaces the second datum with the third datum.”

The patent application was filed on December 2, 2020 (17/109,326).