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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 03, 2020
Applicant:

Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Gary Benedict Kotzur, Austin, TX (US);

William Emmett Lynn, Round Rock, TX (US);

Kevin Thomas Marks, Georgetown, TX (US);

Chandrashekar Nelogal, Round Rock, TX (US);

James Peter Giannoules, Round Rock, TX (US);

Austin Patrick Bolen, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0629 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 9/30029 (2013.01); G06F 11/1084 (2013.01);
Abstract

An autonomous RAID data storage system includes a RAID storage controller device that communicates with RAID data storage devices in order to configure them to perform direct command operations with each other. A first RAID data storage device receives a multi-step command from the RAID storage controller device and performs a first subset of operations associated with the multi-step command, while also performing direct command operations with a second RAID data storage device in order to cause it to perform a second subset of operations associated with the multi-step command, When the first RAID data storage device completes the first subset of operations and receives a first completion communication from the second RAID data storage device that indicates that the second subset of operations are completed, it sends a second completion communication to the RAID storage controller device that indicates that the multi-step command is completed.


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