Patents by Inventor PING PING ZHAO

PING PING ZHAO 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).

  • Disallowing disengagement of a drive component
    Patent number: 10109323
    Abstract: A method of controlling a computing device includes detecting a user input request to disengage a drive component from a computing device, the computing device comprising a multiple-drive storage system having a plurality of drive components forming a single logical unit, and determining whether or not disengaging the drive component would cause failure of the multiple-drive storage system. The method includes disallowing disengagement of the drive component from the computing device in response to determining that disengaging the drive component would cause failure of the multiple-drive storage system, and allowing disengagement of the drive component from the computing device in response to determining that disengaging the drive component would not cause failure of the multiple-drive storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Chekim Chhuor, Liying Jin, Ping Ping Zhao, Yu Yu
  • DISALLOWING DISENGAGEMENT OF A DRIVE COMPONENT
    Publication number: 20170345462
    Abstract: A method of controlling a computing device includes detecting a user input request to disengage a drive component from a computing device, the computing device comprising a multiple-drive storage system having a plurality of drive components forming a single logical unit, and determining whether or not disengaging the drive component would cause failure of the multiple-drive storage system. The method includes disallowing disengagement of the drive component from the computing device in response to determining that disengaging the drive component would cause failure of the multiple-drive storage system, and allowing disengagement of the drive component from the computing device in response to determining that disengaging the drive component would not cause failure of the multiple-drive storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: CHEKIM CHHUOR, LIYING JIN, PING PING ZHAO, YU YU