Lenovo Global Technology Assigned Patent

Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc., Morrisville, NC, has been assigned a patent (11704071) developed by Yasser, Mohammed Arakkal Kunju, Bangaluru, India, Bapat, Vinay, Bangalore, India, Jacob Da Silva, Roberto H, Oak Park, CA, Sharma, Hari Om, Bangalore, India, and Iorga, Radu Mihai, Bucharest, Romania, for “delegating low priority tasks to a passive storage controller.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computer program product and a data storage device including first and second storage controllers operating in active-passive mode with a shared disk. Each storage controller includes a storage device storing program instructions and a processor to process the program instructions and perform various operations. The operations include receiving a task to be performed by the storage device containing the first and second storage controllers, wherein the first storage controller is currently operating as an active storage controller and the second storage controller is currently operating as a passive storage controller. The operations further include determining whether the received task has a high priority or a low priority, performing the received task in response to determining that the received task has a high priority, and delegating the received task to the second storage controller for performance in response to determining that the received task has a low priority.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-03-28 (17/706472).