Quanta Computer Assigned Four Patents

Different HDD gap architecture to reduce upstream preheat for high-density storage
Quanta Computer Inc., Taoyuan, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (9,968,005) developed by Chen, Chao-Jung, Chen, Yi-Chieh, Chen, Jen-Mao, and Chang, Wei-Chun, Taoyuan, Taiwan, for a “different HDD gap architecture to reduce upstream preheat for high-density storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems, methods and computer-readable media for reducing upstream preheat for high-density hard disk drive storage. A system can include first and second rows of storage devices installed in a storage rack, the first and second rows having a first distance between consecutive storage devices. The second row can be located behind the first row and farther away from a source of an airflow than the first row. The system can monitor a temperature associated with the second row and when the temperature rises above a threshold, the system can remove a storage device from the first row. The system can then adjust placement within the first row such that the remaining devices have a second, larger distance between each other to increase airflow to storage devices in the second row and reduce system impedance.”

The patent application was filed on March 8, 2016 (15/063,901).

Remote zone management of JBOD systems
Quanta Computer Inc., Taoyuan, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (9,967,139) developed by Chiu, Yang-Li, and Kung, Tsu-Tai, Taoyuan, Taiwan, for a “remote zone management of JBOD systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Various examples of the present technology provide a method for remotely controlling zone management of a storage system that comprises generating and initializing a network service for a remote device and a new thread for handing commands from the remote device, determining, for each port of a plurality of ports associated with storage devices of a storage system, a corresponding zone group based at least upon zone IDs of the plurality of ports, setting a zoning configuration parameter corresponding to each group of the plurality of zoning groups using a serial protocol, e.g., SAS management protocol, SMP), and configuring a zone and port mapping table and a zone permission table based at least upon the zoning configuration parameter.”

The patent application was filed on December 15, 2015 (14/969,472).

Automatic hardware recovery system
Quanta Computer Inc., Taoyuan, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (9,965,367) developed by Shih, Ching-Chih, Taoyuan, Taiwan, for an “automatic hardware recovery system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for automatic hardware recovery. In some examples, a system can receive a notification of a device failure of a peripheral component interconnect express device associated a node. The system can also receive a first request to disconnect a link between the peripheral component interconnect express device and the node, and a second request to connect, after disconnecting the link, a replacement peripheral component interconnect express device with the node. The system can then reconfigure a peripheral component interconnect express switch fabric to disconnect the link between the peripheral component interconnect express device and the node, and connect the replacement peripheral component interconnect express device with the node.”

The patent application was filed on March 16, 2016 (15/071,474).

SAN management using serial attached SCSI expander
Quanta Computer Inc., Taoyuan, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (9,965,197) developed by Chiu, Yang-Li, and Kung, Tsu-Tai, Taoyuan, Taiwan, for a “system and method for storage area network management using serial attached SCSI expander.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “This disclosure generally relate to remote management of a storage system. The present technology relates techniques that enable a new function of a SAS expander to provide scalable and efficient SAN management. By enabling a direct and separate interface for each storage system associated with a SAS expander, the present technology can achieve SAN management with improved efficiency.”

The patent application was filed on December 15, 2015 (14/969,554).