Quantum Assigned Two Patents

Clustered storage network
Quantum Corp., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,683,123) developed by two co-inventors for a “clustered storage network.“

The co-inventors are John E. Maroney, Irvine, CA, and Tridib Chakravarty, Long Beach, CA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage network is provided. The network includes a client connected to the data storage network; a plurality nodes on the data storage network, wherein each data node has two or more RAID controllers, wherein a first RAID controller of a first node is configured to receive a data storage request from the client and to generate RAID parity data on a data set received from the client, and to store all of the generated RAID parity data on a single node of the plurality of nodes.”

The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2012 (13/585,586).

Metastorage in unused portions of virtual disk file
Quantum, Redmond, WA, has been assigned a patent (8,683,111) developed by four co-inventors for “metastorage in unused portions of a virtual disk file.”

The co-inventors are Gregory L. Wade, San Jose, CA, J. Mitchell Haile, Somerville, MA, Bill Kan, Redwood City, CA, and Barry Herman, Atherton, CA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and method for storing metadata to unused portions of a virtual disk file. In a particular embodiment, a method provides selecting a virtual disk file stored on a data storage volume and identifying unused portions of the virtual disk file. The method further provides writing metadata for the virtual disk file in the unused portions of the virtual disk file.“

The patent application was filed on Jan. 19, 2012 (13/354,011).