Patents by Inventor Daquan Zuo
Daquan Zuo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11936719Abstract: Managing a storage system, including: receiving, over a first network, user credentials associated with an access request to a storage system; sending, over a second network to a cloud-based security module, the user credentials; receiving, over the second network from the cloud-based security module, a token representing that the user credentials were successfully authenticated by the cloud-based security module; and sending, over the first network to the storage system, the token with a management instruction, wherein the storage system is not coupled for data communications to the cloud-based security module.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.Inventors: Jimmy T. Hu, Terence W. Noonan, Neil A. Vachharajani, Daquan Zuo
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Patent number: 11936654Abstract: Providing authorization and authentication in a cloud for a user of a storage array includes: receiving, by a storage array access module from a client-side array services module, a token representing authentication of user credentials and authorized access privileges defining one or more storage array services accessible by the user, where the token is generated by a cloud-based security module upon authentication of the user credentials and identification of authorized access privileges for the user; receiving, by the storage array access module from the user, a user access request to one or more storage array services; and determining, by the storage array access module, whether to grant the user access request in dependence upon the authorized access privileges represented by the token.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.Inventors: Jimmy T. Hu, Benjamin Borowiec, Ethan Miller, Terence Noonan, Constantine Sapuntzakis, Neil Vachharajani, Daquan Zuo
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Patent number: 11882179Abstract: Supporting multiple replication schemes across distinct network layers, including: replicating, over a first type of network messaging layer, data between a first storage system and a second storage system; selecting a different messaging layer for data replication; and replicating, over a second type of network messaging layer, data between the first storage system and the second storage system.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.Inventors: Logan Jennings, Aaron Dailey, Roland Dreier, Ganga Kondapalli, Nicole Tselentis, Stephen Whitney, Daquan Zuo, Ronald Karr, John Colgrove
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Patent number: 11789831Abstract: Managing connectivity to synchronously replicated storage systems, including: identifying a plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated; identifying a host that can issue I/O operations directed to the dataset; identifying a plurality of data communications paths between the host and the plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated; identifying, from amongst the plurality of data communications paths between the host and the plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated, one or more optimal paths; and issuing, to the host, an identification of the one or more optimal paths.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.Inventors: John Colgrove, Ronald Karr, Steven Hodgson, Daquan Zuo, Roland Dreier, David Grunwald
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Publication number: 20230068106Abstract: Providing authorization and authentication in a cloud for a user of a storage array includes: receiving, by a storage array access module from a client-side array services module, a token representing authentication of user credentials and authorized access privileges defining one or more storage array services accessible by the user, where the token is generated by a cloud-based security module upon authentication of the user credentials and identification of authorized access privileges for the user; receiving, by the storage array access module from the user, a user access request to one or more storage array services; and determining, by the storage array access module, whether to grant the user access request in dependence upon the authorized access privileges represented by the token.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: JIMMY T. HU, BENJAMIN BOROWIEC, ETHAN MILLER, TERENCE NOONAN, CONSTANTINE SAPUNTZAKIS, NEIL VACHHARAJANI, DAQUAN ZUO
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Publication number: 20230036992Abstract: Managing connectivity to synchronously replicated storage systems, including: identifying a plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated; identifying a host that can issue I/O operations directed to the dataset; identifying a plurality of data communications paths between the host and the plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated; identifying, from amongst the plurality of data communications paths between the host and the plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated, one or more optimal paths; and issuing, to the host, an identification of the one or more optimal paths.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: JOHN COLGROVE, RONALD KARR, STEVEN HODGSON, DAQUAN ZUO, ROLAND DREIER, DAVID GRUNWALD
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Patent number: 11500745Abstract: Managing connectivity to synchronously replicated storage systems, including: identifying a plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated; identifying a host that can issue I/O operations directed to the dataset; identifying a plurality of data communications paths between the host and the plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated; identifying, from amongst the plurality of data communications paths between the host and the plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated, one or more optimal paths; and issuing, to the host, an identification of the one or more optimal paths.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.Inventors: John Colgrove, Roland Dreier, David Grunwald, Steven Hodgson, Ronald Karr, Daquan Zuo
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Patent number: 11503031Abstract: Providing authorization and authentication in a cloud for a user of a storage array includes: receiving, by a storage array access module from a client-side array services module, a token representing authentication of user credentials and authorized access privileges defining one or more storage array services accessible by the user, where the token is generated by a cloud-based security module upon authentication of the user credentials and identification of authorized access privileges for the user; receiving, by the storage array access module from the user, a user access request to one or more storage array services; and determining, by the storage array access module, whether to grant the user access request in dependence upon the authorized access privileges represented by the token.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.Inventors: Jimmy T. Hu, Benjamin Borowiec, Ethan Miller, Terence Noonan, Constantine Sapuntzakis, Neil Vachharajani, Daquan Zuo
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Publication number: 20220263898Abstract: Supporting multiple replication schemes across distinct network layers, including: replicating, over a first type of network messaging layer, data between a first storage system and a second storage system; selecting a different messaging layer for data replication; and replicating, over a second type of network messaging layer, data between the first storage system and the second storage system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: LOGAN JENNINGS, AARON DAILEY, ROLAND DREIER, GANGA KONDAPALLI, NICOLE TSELENTIS, STEPHEN WHITNEY, DAQUAN ZUO, RONALD KARR, JOHN COLGROVE
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Patent number: 11349917Abstract: Replication handling among distinct network transfer layers, including: establishing, over a first type of network messaging layer, a communication link for replication between a first storage system and a second storage system; initiating, over a second type of network messaging layer, a configuration change to one or more aspects of the first storage system; and replicating, without disrupting the configuration change to the one or more aspects of the first storage system, data from the first storage system to the second storage system.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.Inventors: Logan Jennings, Aaron Dailey, Roland Dreier, Ganga Kondapalli, Nicole Tselentis, Stephen Whitney, Daquan Zuo, Ronald Karr, John Colgrove
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Publication number: 20220086219Abstract: Managing a storage system, including: receiving, over a first network, user credentials associated with an access request to a storage system; sending, over a second network to a cloud-based security module, the user credentials; receiving, over the second network from the cloud-based security module, a token representing that the user credentials were successfully authenticated by the cloud-based security module; and sending, over the first network to the storage system, the token with a management instruction, wherein the storage system is not coupled for data communications to the cloud-based security module.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: JIMMY T. HU, TERENCE W. NOONAN, NEIL A. VACHHARAJANI, DAQUAN ZUO
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Publication number: 20220030062Abstract: Replication handling among distinct network transfer layers, including: establishing, over a first type of network messaging layer, a communication link for replication between a first storage system and a second storage system; initiating, over a second type of network messaging layer, a configuration change to one or more aspects of the first storage system; and replicating, without disrupting the configuration change to the one or more aspects of the first storage system, data from the first storage system to the second storage system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2020Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: LOGAN JENNINGS, AARON DAILEY, ROLAND DREIER, GANGA KONDAPALLI, NICOLE TSELENTIS, STEPHEN WHITNEY, DAQUAN ZUO, RONALD KARR, JOHN COLGROVE
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Patent number: 11201913Abstract: Managing a storage array includes: receiving, by a client-side array services module from a cloud-based security module through data communications on a wide area network, a token representing authentication of user credentials; and managing, by the client-side array services module, a storage array only through data communications on a local area network, including sending, to the storage array, the token with a management instruction.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.Inventors: Jimmy T. Hu, Terence W. Noonan, Neil A. Vachharajani, Daquan Zuo
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Patent number: 10834086Abstract: Providing authorization and authentication in a cloud for a user of a storage array includes: receiving, by a storage array access module from a client-side array services module, a token representing authentication of user credentials and authorized access privileges defining one or more storage array services accessible by the user, where the token is generated by a cloud-based security module upon authentication of the user credentials and identification of authorized access privileges for the user; receiving, by the storage array access module from the user, a user access request to one or more storage array services; and determining, by the storage array access module, whether to grant the user access request in dependence upon the authorized access privileges represented by the token.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin P. Borowiec, Jimmy T. Hu, Ethan L. Miller, Terence W. Noonan, Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, Neil A. Vachharajani, Daquan Zuo
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Patent number: 10680932Abstract: Managing connectivity to synchronously replicated storage systems, including: identifying a plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated; identifying a host that can issue I/O operations directed to the dataset; identifying a plurality of data communications paths between the host and the plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated; identifying, from amongst the plurality of data communications paths between the host and the plurality of storage systems across which a dataset is synchronously replicated, one or more optimal paths; and issuing, to the host, an identification of the one or more optimal paths.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.Inventors: John Colgrove, Roland Dreier, David Grunwald, Steven Hodgson, Ronald Karr, Daquan Zuo
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Patent number: 10560517Abstract: Managing a storage array includes: receiving, by a client-side array services module from a cloud-based security module through data communications on a wide area network, a token representing authentication of user credentials; and managing, by the client-side array services module, a storage array only through data communications on a local area network, including sending, to the storage array, the token with a management instruction.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.Inventors: Jimmy T. Hu, Terence W. Noonan, Neil A. Vachharajani, Daquan Zuo
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Publication number: 20190354628Abstract: A storage system asynchronously replicating a synchronously replicated dataset, where the asynchronous replication of the asynchronously replicated dataset includes: determining, at a target storage system, multiple work items corresponding to a dataset stored among multiple source storage systems, wherein each respective work item corresponds to a respective subset of the dataset; and for each session from among a plurality of sessions operating on the target storage system: determining one or more computing environment factors affecting performance of replication of data from one or more of the multiple source storage systems to the target storage system; identifying, for a given session and based on the one or more computing environment factors, a respective source storage system and a quantity of work items; and replicating, from the respective storage system, one or more subsets of data corresponding to the quantity of work items.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2018Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: DAVID GRUNWALD, RONALD KARR, THOMAS GILL, DAQUAN ZUO
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Patent number: 10021170Abstract: Managing a storage array includes: receiving, by a client-side array services module from a cloud-based security module through data communications on a wide area network, a token representing authentication of user credentials; and managing, by the client-side array services module, a storage array only through data communications on a local area network, including sending, to the storage array, the token with a management instruction.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.Inventors: Jimmy T. Hu, Terence W. Noonan, Neil A. Vachharajani, Daquan Zuo
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Patent number: 9882913Abstract: Providing authorization and authentication in a cloud for a user of a storage array includes: receiving, by a cloud-based security module from a client-side array services module, user credentials; authenticating, by the cloud-based security module, the user credentials; identifying, by the cloud-based security module, authorized access privileges defining one or more storage array services accessible by the user; generating, by the cloud-based security module, a token representing the authentication of the user credentials and the authorized access privileges; and providing, by the cloud-based security module to the client-side array services module, the token.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin P. Borowiec, Jimmy T. Hu, Ethan L. Miller, Terence W. Noonan, Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, Neil A. Vachharajani, Daquan Zuo
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Patent number: 9558194Abstract: A computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for providing, via a storage provisioning engine, a scalable objects store enabled to store objects across multiple heterogeneous file arrays; wherein file arrays are enabled to be actively added to the object store without pausing the file arrays; and wherein data representing the objects enabled to be balanced across the heterogeneous file arrays based.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Shashwat Srivastav, Vishrut Shah, Sriram Sankaran, Jun Luo, Fredrick A. Crable, Chen Wang, Huapeng Yuan, Subba R. Gaddamadugu, David A. Gillam, Daquan Zuo, Wei Yin, Brian D. Burck