Patents by Inventor Shuqi ZHAO

Shuqi 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).

  • Patent number: 10884623
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for upgrading a distributed storage system, and the disclosure relates to the field of distributed computer technology. In the disclosure, a client sends write requests regarding the same to-be-written data to a plurality of data servers at the same time; then how many data servers the to-be-written data is successfully written into is analyzed; it is determined whether the number of the successful writes is greater than a pre-defined number; and first feedback information or second feedback information is sent to each data server having a successful write according to the determining result. The data server then determines whether it is in an upgradeable state or a non-upgradeable state according to the received first feedback information or second feedback information. Based on the state of the data server, an upgrade control server may select to notify, in a rolling manner, the data server to perform an upgrade operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Jiaji Zhu, Shuqi Zhao, Jiangbin Lin, Yuesheng Gu
  • Publication number: 20200264777
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for upgrading a distributed storage system, and the disclosure relates to the field of distributed computer technology. In the disclosure, a client sends write requests regarding the same to-be-written data to a plurality of data servers at the same time; then how many data servers the to-be-written data is successfully written into is analyzed; it is determined whether the number of the successful writes is greater than a pre-defined number; and first feedback information or second feedback information is sent to each data server having a successful write according to the determining result. The data server then determines whether it is in an upgradeable state or a non-upgradeable state according to the received first feedback information or second feedback information. Based on the state of the data server, an upgrade control server may select to notify, in a rolling manner, the data server to perform an upgrade operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Jiaji ZHU, Shuqi ZHAO, Jiangbin LIN, Yuesheng GU