Unknown Safe Storage Filed Patent Litigation on RAID

On November 30, 2012, Safe Storage LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, filed complaints for patent infringement on the Delaware District Court vs. Dell, Inc., Dot Hill Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Company, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, NetApp Inc., and Silicon Graphics International Corp.

The patent involved in the litigation is U.S. No. 6,978,346 patent entitled Apparatus for
redundant interconnection between multiple hosts and RAID, issued December 29, 2000.

The original assignee is the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in Korea and the inventors are three Korean people: Baek Sung-Hoon, Kim Joong-Bae and Kim Yong-Youn. But Safe Storage is the exclusive licensee of this patent.

Abstract of this patent: "The apparatus for a redundant interconnection between multiple hosts and a redundant array of inexpensive disks (hereinafter, referred to as RAID), which is capable of supporting a fault tolerance of RAID controllers and simultaneously heightening a performance, comprises a plurality of RAID controlling units for processing a requirement of numerous host computers connected with one another through the industrial standard communication network and for fault tolerance; a plurality of connecting units for connecting the plurality of RAID controlling units to the numerous host computers; and a plural number of network interface controlling units respectively contained into the plurality of RAID controlling units, for exchanging information directly with an opposite network interface controlling unit provided within an opposite RAID controlling unit and the numerous host computers, through the plurality of connecting units."

We have never heard about a company named Safe Storage, apparently without web site, in the storage industry.

In English, generally the terms "safe storage" are nothing to do with data storage as it’s used for self storage activity.