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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2002
Applicants:
Steven Rodrigues, Mountain View, CA (US);
David Hitz, Los Altos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Steven Rodrigues, Mountain View, CA (US);
David Hitz, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Network Appliance, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of determining a configuration of a collection of storage units, includes: generating a configuration, identifying for a specific configuration by use of a configuration identifier; and assigning the specific configuration to the first labels of all storage units and then to the second labels of all storage units, and utilizing the configuration identifier to determine the most recent configuration successfully written to all disks in the configuration.