Patents by Inventor Haitao Kenny Zhou

Haitao Kenny Zhou 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).

  • System and method for smart pool space reclamation
    Patent number: 11216197
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying, by a computing device, historical block usage in a plurality of slices for a user. At least a portion of the plurality of slices to keep during an evacuation process for the plurality of slices may be determined. At least the portion of the plurality of slices may be excluded from the evacuation process for the plurality of slices based upon, at least in part, the historical block usage in the plurality of slices for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Leonid Wang, Kent J. Costa, Haitao Kenny Zhou, Feng Zhang, Jiajie Sun
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SMART POOL SPACE RECLAMATION
    Publication number: 20210034240
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying, by a computing device, historical block usage in a plurality of slices for a user. At least a portion of the plurality of slices to keep during an evacuation process for the plurality of slices may be determined. At least the portion of the plurality of slices may be excluded from the evacuation process for the plurality of slices based upon, at least in part, the historical block usage in the plurality of slices for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Leonid Wang, Kent J. Costa, Haitao Kenny Zhou, Feng Zhang, Jiajie Sun
  • Best practice system and method
    Patent number: 10732867
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving usage and configuration data from a storage system. The usage and configuration data is compared to one or more best practice models to determine one or more recommendations. The one or more recommendations are provided to a user of the storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Eric Zhanqing Wu, Haitao Kenny Zhou, Jun Wu, Yourong Wang, Michael G. Varteresian
  • Managing software upgrades in storage systems
    Patent number: 10489138
    Abstract: A method is used in managing software upgrades in storage systems. An upgrade path information is received describing conditions relevant to upgrading a software from a set of source software revisions to a set of target software revisions. A set of rules denotes storage system configuration conditions relevant to upgrading the software from a source software revision to a target software revision. Storage system configuration information from a set of storage systems of a set of customers is gathered. Storage system configuration of a storage system is analyzed for a software upgrade of the storage system in accordance with a set of rules associated with the software upgrade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Jun Wu, Yourong Wang, Haitao Kenny Zhou, Kenneth Wood