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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:
Jun. 08, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2006
Applicants:
Douglas W. Coatney, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rajesh Ananthanarayanan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Douglas W. Coatney, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rajesh Ananthanarayanan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/023 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A field-upgradeable database that is separable from system software contains information about mass storage devices that may be present in a storage array. When an uninitialized device is detected in the array, the field-upgradeable database is consulted to discover which non-standard functions the device supports, and one of the non-standard functions is activated. Software and systems using the field-upgradeable database in a storage server configuration are also described and claimed.