Patents by Inventor Xiao Y. LI

Xiao Y. LI 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).

  • RETRIEVING DATA IN A STORAGE SYSTEM USING THIN PROVISIONING
    Publication number: 20150278274
    Abstract: The invention relates to retrieving data from a storage system. One embodiment of the invention comprises receiving a write operation, establishing a correspondence relationship between a logic block address and a physical block address of the write operation, and determining whether a valid data percentage in a mapping table is greater than a predetermined threshold after the correspondence relationship is added in stored metadata of stored metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min FANG, Hui X. GU, Xiao Y. LI, Fan G. ZENG