Patents by Inventor Zih-You Peng

Zih-You Peng 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 for managing the access authority to cloud storage and the system therefor
    Patent number: 11507678
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for managing cloud service authority in a cloud storage system, which includes: a set of cloud data and a plurality of data servers. The cloud data includes a plurality of user object files and global access control information. Each data server includes an access control enforcement unit for executing or rejecting I/O requests from the client computers, where the access control enforcement unit includes local access control information. The method includes steps of: changing the content of the global access control information in the cloud data; downloading, by the data servers, the changed global access control information from the cloud data; updating, by the data servers, the local access control information therein according to the downloaded global access control information; and processing, by the data servers, I/O requests from the client computers according to the updated local access control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Infortrend Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Jui Lin, Zih-You Peng, Chao-Feng Lin
  • Method for managing the access authority to cloud storage and the system therefor
    Publication number: 20200019718
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for managing cloud service authority in a cloud storage system, which includes: a set of cloud data and a plurality of data servers. The cloud data includes a plurality of user object files and global access control information. Each data server includes an access control enforcement unit for executing or rejecting I/O requests from the client computers, where the access control enforcement unit includes local access control information. The method includes steps of: changing the content of the global access control information in the cloud data; downloading, by the data servers, the changed global access control information from the cloud data; updating, by the data servers, the local access control information therein according to the downloaded global access control information; and processing, by the data servers, I/O requests from the client computers according to the updated local access control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yen-Jui Lin, Zih-You Peng, Chao-Feng Lin