Patents by Inventor Zhihong Liao

Zhihong Liao 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 APPARATUS FOR DATA STORAGE
    Publication number: 20150067387
    Abstract: In response to detecting a failure on a secondary storage device, a transmission of a data write request to the primary storage device is suspended. Identifying an outstanding data write request, wherein the outstanding data write request has been performed by the primary storage device, but has not been performed by a disaster recovery (DR) storage device. Instructing the DR storage device to update data on the DR storage device according to the identified outstanding data write request. Setting the primary storage device to enable the primary storage device to forward a subsequently received data write request to the DR storage device. And restoring the transmission of the data write requests to the primary storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Zhihong Liao, Yi Yang, Junwei Zhang, Xin Zhang