Unionmemory Information System Assigned Patent

shenzhen Unionmemory Information System Ltd., Guangdong, China, has been assigned a patent (11989418) developed by Shen, Rongjuan, Han, Daojing, Zou, Yifan, and Wang, Weiliang, Shenzhen, China, for “method and apparatus for upgrading SSD firmware compatible with RAID SSD and non-RAID.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for upgrading a SSD firmware compatible with an RAID and a non-RAID including: packing two firmware versions including an RAID firmware and a non-RAID firmware together, when the two firmware versions need to be released, adding a configuration information with a fixed length of bytes to a firmware header of a resulting packed firmware, in which the configuration information includes: index values, offsets, and file sizes of the RAID firmware and the non-RAID firmware, determining, according to an internal information of an SSD, whether a matching firmware version thereof is the RAID firmware or the non-RAID firmware, and comparing the internal information of the SSD with the configuration information of the firmware header, selecting a matching index value, and reading a corresponding firmware according to the offset and the file size.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-02-28 (17/043465).