Huawei Technologies and William Marsh Rice University Assigned Patent

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China, and William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX, has been assigned a patent (11,320,998) developed by Yu, Si, Gong, Junhui, Hangzhou, China, Varman, Peter, and, Peng, Yuhan, Houston, TX, for “method for assuring quality of service in distributed storage system, control node, and system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present disclosure discloses a method for assuring quality of service in a storage system, where a control node calculates, based on a quantity of remaining I/O requests of a target storage node in a unit time, a quantity of I/O requests required by a storage resource to reach a lower assurance limit in the unit time, and a quantity of I/O requests need to be processed by the target storage node for the storage resource in the unit time, a lower limit quantity of I/O requests that can be processed by the target storage node for the storage resource in the unit time, allocates, based on the lower limit quantity of I/O requests, a lower limit quantity of tokens of the storage resource on the target storage node in the unit time to the storage resource, and sends the lower limit quantity of tokens to the target storage node.”

The patent application was filed on February 12, 2021 (17/175,331).