Patent Application Titled "Remote Execution of Raid in Large Topologies" Under Review

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week -- According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews journalists, a patent application by the inventors Singh, Rajendra (West Bengal, IN); Sarkar, Sourin (Bangalore, IN), filed on April 28, 2011, was cleared for further review on November 8, 2012.

The assignee for this patent application, patent serial number 096404, is LSI Corporation.

Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Information storage systems that use redundant array of independent disks (RAID) technology provide augmented storage of digital information. Such systems may use an array of hard disk drives (HDDs) or similar devices such as solid state disks (SSDs) to store information in various ways. For example, information throughput may be increased over that of a single HDD by organizing multiple HDDs in a RAID 0, or striped, array. In another example, redundant storage of critical information may be provided by organizing the HDDs in a RAID 1 array."

In addition to obtaining background information on this patent application, VerticalNews editors also obtained the inventors' summary information for this patent: "One embodiment provides a SAS expander for use in a SAS topology. The SAS expander includes a receiving portion and a controller. The receiving portion is configured to receive a remote RAID instruction from a root host bus adapter. The controller is configured to execute the instruction to manage a RAID volume in accordance with a RAID management task specified by the instruction.

"Another embodiment provides a SAS topology that includes a root host bus adapter and a SAS expander. The root host bus adapter is configured to transmit a remote RAID instruction over a SAS link. The SAS expander includes a receiving portion and a controller. The receiving portion is configured to receive the remote RAID instruction from the root host bus adapter. The controller is configured to execute the remote RAID instruction to manage a RAID volume in accordance with a RAID management task specified by the instruction.

"Yet another embodiment provides a method of manufacturing a RAID system. The method includes configuring a root host bus adapter to transmit a remote RAID instruction over a SAS link. The method further includes configuring a SAS expander to receive the remote RAID instruction from the root host bus adapter, and to execute the instruction to manage a RAID volume in accordance with a RAID management task specified by the instruction."

For more information, see this patent application: Singh, Rajendra; Sarkar, Sourin. Remote Execution of Raid in Large Topologies. U.S. Patent Serial Number 096404, filed April 28, 2011, and posted November 8, 2012. Patent URL: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=411&p=9&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20121101.PD.&OS=PD/20121101&RS=PD/20121101

Keywords for this news article include: LSI Corporation.

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