Patents by Inventor Xingliang Zou

Xingliang Zou 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).

  • Method and related apparatus for data migration utilizing disk arrays
    Patent number: 7610465
    Abstract: Method and related apparatus for data migration of a disk array. While striping and migrating data of a source disk of the disk array, data stripes are grouped into different zones; after completely writing data stripes of a given zone to disks of the disk array, data stripes of next zone are written to disks of the disk array and the given zone. Because data stripes of the next zone will be distributed to various disks, only some of the data stripes will overwrite data stripes of the given zone. Therefore, the next zone can contain more data stripes than the given zone while keeping migration integration. In addition, by zones containing increasing number of data stripes, migration progress can be managed with ease and high efficiency achieving better data throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: VIA Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Guoyu Hu, Xingliang Zou
  • Method and Related Apparatus for Data Migration Utilizing Disk Arrays
    Publication number: 20060112221
    Abstract: Method and related apparatus for data migration of a disk array. While striping and migrating data of a source disk of the disk array, data stripes are grouped into different zones; after completely writing data stripes of a given zone to disks of the disk array, data stripes of next zone are written to disks of the disk array and the given zone. Because data stripes of the next zone will be distributed to various disks, only some of the data stripes will overwrite data stripes of the given zone. Therefore, the next zone can contain more data stripes than the given zone while keeping migration integration. In addition, by zones containing increasing number of data stripes, migration progress can be managed with ease and high efficiency achieving better data throughput.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventors: Guoyu Hu, Xingliang Zou