Hitachi Vantara Assigned Two Patents

Storage device and protocol conversion method by storage device
Hitachi Vantara, Ltd., Yokohama, Japan, has been assigned a patent (12210781) developed by Tanaka; Katsuya, Kobayashi; Yutaro, Fukuda; Hideaki, Tokyo, Japan, for “storage device and protocol conversion method by storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage apparatus includes a plurality of storage controllers. Each of the plurality of storage controllers includes a controller interface for connecting the storage controllers. The controller interface includes one or more logical ports corresponding to each storage controller of the connection destination. When converting the first request of the first protocol used in the storage controller into the second request of the second protocol used in the inter-storage controller network, the controller interface stores the identification information of the first request and the identification information of the second request in the send queue of the logical port.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-09-19 (17/947811).

File storage system and file transfer method
Hitachi Vantara, Ltd., Yokohama, Japan, has been assigned a patent (12197391) developed by Shimizu; Tomoki, Terazumi; Hoshun, Ogasawara; Shinji, and Kitamura; Takeshi, Tokyo, Japan, for “file storage system and file transfer method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “When a transfer target file is updated during multiple part upload of the transfer target file to an external storage system, a file storage system stops the multiple part upload of the transfer target file, and performs multiple part upload of the updated file to the external storage system.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-02-16 (18/170031).