Promise Assigned Patent

Promise Technology, Inc., Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (8,943,355) developed by Hsu, Wen-Feng, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Lo, Kuo-Heng, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Yuan, Shyan-Ming, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Chien, Hung-Ming, Kuo, Ying-Tse, and Huang, Cheng-Yi, Hsinchu, Taiwan, for a “cloud data storage system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A cloud data storage system is provided for multiple clients to access data of files comprising at least one node connecting to a first storage means, at least one namenode module for processing file operations issued from the clients, namenode module issuing data access instructions to access and maintain the metadata on the first storage means, at least one datanode module respectively executing on at least one node, each datanode module functioning to scan and access a second storage means connected thereto, at least one data import module selectively executing on nodes in which datanode module are executing, the data import module scanning a second storage means newly connected to the cloud data storage system and obtaining a corresponding metadata, and executing data migration operation for the data in second storage means without actual physical uploading operation.“

The patent application was filed on September 10, 2012 (13/608,053).