Patents by Inventor Brian Tianfang Xiong
Brian Tianfang Xiong 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: 11507599Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a computer program product and apparatus for processing transactions in a synchronized replication system, wherein the method comprises, at a source site in the synchronized replication system: serializing commits of transactions in the synchronized replication system so that only one of the transactions can be committed at the same time; in response to initiating the commit of the one transaction, generating a log for each of transactions that are ongoing in the synchronized replication system, so as to record impact of all operations of a respective transaction on the synchronized replication system; marking transactions for which the logs have been generated; and completing commits of the marked transactions.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Ning Xu, Alex Minghui Zhang, Brian Tianfang Xiong, Yuanyang Wu, Yifeng Lu
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Patent number: 10795601Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device for a storage system. The method may include: replicating, through a first replication process, data in a first storage device to a second storage device to obtain a data replica; replicating, through a second replication process, metadata of the data to the second storage device to obtain a first metadata replica; replicating, in the second storage device through a third replication process, the first metadata replica to obtain a second metadata replica; and performing data recovery based on the data replica and the second metadata replica.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Sherry Hongru Xu, Brian Tianfang Xiong, Yuanyang Wu, Yifeng Lu, Alex Minghui Zhang
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Patent number: 10789214Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a computer program product, a system and a method for providing access to storage resources by receiving a user selection of one or more of a plurality of source storage resources; establishing corresponding backup storage resources for the selected one or more source storage resources.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Yifeng Lu, Yuanyang Wu, Brian Tianfang Xiong, Luna Yue Kuang, Alex Minghui Zhang
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Patent number: 10616326Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a computer program products and apparatus for controlling sharing of a resource among a plurality of nodes, wherein in response to a service using the resource to be initiated at an object node of the plurality of nodes, locking, at the object node, an object file that is associated with use of the resource; in response to successful locking of the object file, determining, at the object node, whether other files associated with the use of the resource at other nodes of the plurality of nodes have been locked; and in response to determining that the other files are not locked, using, at the object node, the resource to initiate the service.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Sherry Hongru Xu, Brian Tianfang Xiong, Yuanyang Wu, Ning Xu, Yuan Luo
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Patent number: 10459643Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for a storage system. The storage system includes an active storage site and a standby storage site, and a logical unit number LUN for a storage pool of the active storage site is replicated to a LUN for a storage pool of the standby storage site to form a consistency group. The method comprises: creating a first LUN and a second LUN as mirrors of each other at the active storage site and the standby storage site, respectively; adding the mirrors formed by the first LUN and the second LUN to the consistency group; after the second LUN is added to the storage pool of the standby storage site, adding the first LUN to the storage pool of the active storage site.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Sherry Hongru Xu, Brian Tianfang Xiong, Yifeng Lu, Alex Minghui Zhang, Luna Yue Kuang
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Patent number: 10007567Abstract: There is provided a method and device for recovering data replication between storage devices. The method comprises: creating mirrored pairs between logical units of a primary storage device and logical units of a secondary storage device; in response to the primary storage device recovering from an interruption state to a normal state, re-creating the mirrored pairs based on one or more replication sessions between the logical units of the primary storage device and the logical units of the secondary storage device stored before interruption; and replicating data to the primary storage device based on the re-created mirrored pairs.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Alex Minghui Zhang, Brian Tianfang Xiong, Yuanyang Wu, Yifeng Lu, Sherry Hongru Xu
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Publication number: 20170269859Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for a storage system. The storage system includes an active storage site and a standby storage site, and a logical unit number LUN for a storage pool of the active storage site is replicated to a LUN for a storage pool of the standby storage site to form a consistency group. The method comprises: creating a first LUN and a second LUN as mirrors of each other at the active storage site and the standby storage site, respectively; adding the mirrors formed by the first LUN and the second LUN to the consistency group; after the second LUN is added to the storage pool of the standby storage site, adding the first LUN to the storage pool of the active storage site.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Sherry Hongru Xu, Brian Tianfang Xiong, Yifeng Lu, Alex Minghui Zhang, Luna Yue Kuang
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Publication number: 20170192703Abstract: There is provided a method and device for recovering data replication between storage devices. The method comprises: creating mirrored pairs between logical units of a primary storage device and logical units of a secondary storage device; in response to the primary storage device recovering from an interruption state to a normal state, re-creating the mirrored pairs based on one or more replication sessions between the logical units of the primary storage device and the logical units of the secondary storage device stored before interruption; and replicating data to the primary storage device based on the re-created mirrored pairs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2016Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Alex Minghui Zhang, Brian Tianfang Xiong, Yuanyang Wu, Yifeng Lu, Sherry Hongru Xu
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Publication number: 20170185309Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device for a storage system. The method may include: replicating, through a first replication process, data in a first storage device to a second storage device to obtain a data replica; replicating, through a second replication process, metadata of the data to the second storage device to obtain a first metadata replica; replicating, in the second storage device through a third replication process, the first metadata replica to obtain a second metadata replica; and performing data recovery based on the data replica and the second metadata replica.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2016Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Sherry Hongru Xu, Brian Tianfang Xiong, Yuanyang Wu, Yifeng Lu, Alex Minghui Zhang
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Publication number: 20160196322Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a computer program product and apparatus for processing transactions in a synchronized replication system, wherein the method comprises, at a source site in the synchronized replication system: serializing commits of transactions in the synchronized replication system so that only one of the transactions can be committed at the same time; in response to initiating the commit of the one transaction, generating a log for each of transactions that are ongoing in the synchronized replication system, so as to record impact of all operations of a respective transaction on the synchronized replication system; marking transactions for which the logs have been generated; and completing commits of the marked transactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2015Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Ning Xu, Alex Minghui Zhang, Brian Tianfang Xiong, Yuanyang Wu, Yifeng Lu
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Publication number: 20160197990Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a computer program products and apparatus for controlling sharing of a resource among a plurality of nodes, wherein in response to a service using the resource to be initiated at an object node of the plurality of nodes, locking, at the object node, an object file that is associated with use of the resource; in response to successful locking of the object file, determining, at the object node, whether other files associated with the use of the resource at other nodes of the plurality of nodes have been locked; and in response to determining that the other files are not locked, using, at the object node, the resource to initiate the service.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2015Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Sherry Hongru Xu, Brian Tianfang Xiong, Yuanyang Wu, Ning Xu, Yuan Luo
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Publication number: 20160196183Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a computer program product, a system and a method for providing access to storage resources by receiving a user selection of one or more of a plurality of source storage resources; establishing corresponding backup storage resources for the selected one or more source storage resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2015Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Yifeng Lu, Yuanyang Wu, Brian Tianfang Xiong, Luna Yue Kuang, Alex Minghui Zhang