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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:
Nov. 25, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 17, 2012
Applicants:

Hung-ming Chien, Hsin-Chu, TW;

Che-jen Wang, Hsin-Chu, TW;

Yi-hua Peng, Hsin-Chu, TW;

Inventors:

Hung-Ming Chien, Hsin-Chu, TW;

Che-Jen Wang, Hsin-Chu, TW;

Yi-Hua Peng, Hsin-Chu, TW;

Assignee:

Promise Technology, Inc., Hsin-Chu, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 11/16 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1441 (2013.01); G06F 12/0804 (2013.01); G06F 12/0866 (2013.01); G06F 2212/262 (2013.01); G06F 11/1666 (2013.01); G06F 11/2015 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention discloses a data storage system and managing method thereof. The data storage system according to the invention includes N storage devices, a backup memory and a controller where N is a natural number. Each storage device has a respective write cache. Once the data storage system suffers from power failure, the backup memory still reserves data stored therein. The controller receives data transmitted from an application I/O request unit, executes a predetermined operation for the received data to generate data to be written, transmits the data to be written to the write caches of the storage devices, duplicates the data to be written into the backup memory, and labels the duplicated data in the backup memory as being valid in response to a writing confirm message sent from the storage devices.


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