New H3C Information Technologies Assigned Two Patents

Accessing SSD
New H3C Information Technologies Co., Ltd., Zhejiang, China, has been assigned a patent (11,126,377) developed by Yao, Shaoqin, Beijing, China, for “accessing solid state disk.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of accessing a SSD and an SSD are provided, where the SSD includes: a cache, N physical channels, and flashes mounted to the physical channels. The cache includes a plurality of strips. Each of the plurality of strips includes N sectors, N being an integer greater than or equal to 3. The method is applied to the SSD. According to the method, a data writing command for the SSD is received, a first strip and a first sector that correspond to an LBA of data to be written carried in the data writing command are determined, when the first strip is present in the cache, the data to be written is written into the cache as data of the first sector, and when the first strip is absent in the cache, the first strip is established and the data to be written is written into the cache as data of the first sector.”

The patent application was filed on April 12, 2018 (16/604,984).

RAID configuration
New H3C Information Technologies Co., Ltd., Zhejiang, China, has been assigned a patent (10,917,291) developed by Yang, Jing, Zhang, Jie, and Shi, Feng, Beijing, China, for a “RAID configuration.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method and a device for configuring RAID are provided. When a RAID configuration is required, an Integrated Fast Intelligent Scalable Toolkit (IF) start command is sent to each server to perform a RAID configuration in a batch manner. Each server completes the start of the IF based on the received IF start command and sends a RAID configuration command to an Agent in the IF for RAID configuration.”

The patent application was filed on August 3, 2017 (16/321,860).