Patents by Inventor Henry Haihua Chang

Henry Haihua Chang 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).

  • Patent number: 10140195
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a computer program product and apparatus for failure recovery in a storage device, wherein a storage device comprises at least one server and a storage unit with a plurality of components running on the at least one server, and further comprises backing up, in the storage unit, one or more components in a plurality of components running on the at least one server; monitoring occurrence of a failure on the at least one server and locating one or more components causing the failure; obtaining one or more components that are backed up in the storage unit and correspond to the one or more components causing the failure; and recovering from the failure using the obtained one or more components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Henry Haihua Chang, Wenrey Wenlei Guo, Chao Chen, Patrick Minggang Lu, Sandro Jiawei Wu
  • Publication number: 20160197995
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing storage service to a tenant in a cloud storage environment. Specifically, in one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing storage service to a tenant in a cloud storage environment, comprising: extracting from a request from the tenant a storage service requirement associated with the request; acquiring from the cloud storage environment at least one logical drive meeting the storage service requirement; building a virtual storage container associated with the at least one logical drive; and providing requested storage service to the tenant via the virtual storage container. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for providing storage service to a tenant in a cloud storage environment. By means of the method and apparatus of the present invention, customized storage service can be provided to tenants more efficiently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Patrick Minggang Lu, Chao Chen, Henry Haihua Chang, Wenrey Wenlei Guo, Sandro Jiawei Wu
  • Publication number: 20160196195
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a computer program product and apparatus for failure recovery in a storage device, wherein a storage device comprises at least one server and a storage unit with a plurality of components running on the at least one server, and further comprises backing up, in the storage unit, one or more components in a plurality of components running on the at least one server; monitoring occurrence of a failure on the at least one server and locating one or more components causing the failure; obtaining one or more components that are backed up in the storage unit and correspond to the one or more components causing the failure; and recovering from the failure using the obtained one or more components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Henry Haihua Chang, Wenrey Wenlei Guo, Chao Chen, Patrick Minggang Lu, Sandro Jiawei Wu